(08-17-2018 04:41 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(08-17-2018 04:04 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-17-2018 03:59 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  Had Casey conducted the polygraph test in which Brennan admitted to voting for Soviet proxy Gus Hall in 1976, Casey would have tossed him out of the office
This line could be interpreted two ways...either he was not forced to take a polygraph, or the polygraph he did take purposefully skipped over his vote for a communist when he was 18... yet both are false.

No, it couldn't be interpreted in either of those ways. Because that's not what it says. It says very clearly that a polygraph test was conducted, and that during that test Brennan admitted voting for Hall.
It says, "Had Casey conducted...," which I would extrapolate to mean, "Had Casey known the results..." I'm fairly certain he did not. I'm not aware that directors of federal agencies actively participate in the hiring of lower level staff. I would think that would be an inappropriate use of their time. So I don't see any contradiction.

I read "Casey" as meaning "Casey's CIA" because I also couldn't see a director personally administering a polygraph test... its just a ridiculous supposition. John Brennan moved up quickly in the CIA. He was not, nor ever was, a communist subversive or a sympathizer; but he did vote for a communist as a protest vote in 1976.

The problem with that interpretation is that it is pretty clear that somebody other than Casey in "Casey's CIA" did in fact give a polygraph test. So "Casey's CIA" did in fact give a polygraph test, that is pretty much undisputed, and Brennan did in fact state during that test that he voted for the communist party candidate in 1976.

And as far as the "Oh, it was just a protest vote" comment, well there were lots of other protest votes available. There were at least 10 parties receiving votes, and of those the communists finished 8th. He could have voted for Gene McCarthy or Roger MacBride or Lester Maddox or Thomas Anderson or Peter Camejo or Margaret Wright or Lyndon LaRouche as a protest vote. He chose to place his vote for the specific protest candidate of the communist party named Gus Hall. That's a specific choice he made, when he had other protest choices available, representing pretty much every point on the political spectrum.

Hell, I voted for a protest candidate too--MacBride. And of those listed, all but Wright and LaRouche got more votes than Hall. So, no, I don't give him a pass.