former cia director brenna subsequently briefed president obama on the intelligence, including the alleged approval by hillary clinton on july 26th 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors developed by donald trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by russian security services. in other words he was told about the russian collusion narrative six years before it was all totally but debunked. carter page got spied on, the whole government was weaponized. brian: the same guy they just gave that speech at stamford? this is such a condescending speech. what is basically saying is you guys don t know how to sort through information out there in the world. maybe you don t care anymore. and you re getting too much information anyway. so let us help you out. we ll tell you what to do it. it s condescending. but what it really is is this vision that the self-appointed anointed get to decide what we hear.