And the scandals just keep mounting for the Most Transparent Administration Ever.  “Stratfor Email: Brennan Behind ‘Witch Hunt’ of Journalists Reporting Leaks,” Breitbart:

An obscure November 2012 Wikileaks email dump points to former White House counterterrorism adviser and now-CIA chief John Brennan as the person behind the “witch hunt” of journalists who reported unflattering Obama administration leaks.

A little over a week after President Barack Obama’s reelection, Wikileaks released an email dump of global intelligence files from the private intelligence company Stratfor. One particular email, dated September 21, 2010 discussed President Obama’s “Leak Investigations.”

The Massachusetts ACLU tweeted out a link that referenced the email and the president’s “war on whistleblowers” on November 15, 2012. The tweet only received two re-tweets after sitting online for seven months. Stratfor’s VP for Intelligence, Fred Burton, declined to comment for this story.

The Obama administration has faced criticism not only for seizing phone records of 20 Associated Press reporters but also monitoring private emails and phone calls of Fox News Reporter James Rosen.

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According to a legal filing, the Washington Post reported the Obama Justice Department described the Fox News reporter as a an “aider, and abettor, and/or co-conspirator” in the case.

The public filing shows the first defense letter was filed in the case seven days before the September 21 Stratfor email regarding Brennan’s “witch hunt” on investigative journalists was sent.

Hey, let’s not act so surprised when would-be tyrants working on behest of a totalitarian ideology act the part.  Just because Obama hasn’t grown a thick mustache and taken to wearing fatigues and speaking from balconies doesn’t mean he isn’t who he’s always been.

The postmodernist faculty lounge theorists have always been at war with the notion that the masses should ever be trusted with ownership over government.  They just jam their tyrannical impulses into fancy suits with nice leg creases. And we timidly oblige the lie by granting them the benefit of the doubt when their entire histories have shown that doing so is hubris and sanctimony disguised as “open mindedness” and “civility.”

I wouldn’t be civil to a man trying to rape my wife or enslave my children.  So why on earth am I supposed to pretend to give deference to a Marxist usurper and his hive of vicious political operatives — and try as they might, they couldn’t hide his history and his intellectual and political background and influences — just because an “historic” figure managed to dupe a majority of the electorate and beat a pair of timid centrists? — in large part because we were told we needed to show deference?

All of this was completely foreseeable.   What wasn’t foreseeable was that those of us who foresaw it would be drummed out of polite society, then later find ourselves watching with amusement and sadness while those who drummed us out begin sounding alarms that we ourselves were sounding 5 years ago.

But I guess that’s what passes for leadership in an intellectually bankrupt era.

(h/t geoff B)