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Kash Patel: “We know it was John Brennan and Obama who came in with the…”

Featuring: Kash Patel, Republican | Former Chief of Staff to the Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense | National

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FULL SPEECH Kash Patel Addresses CPAC in DC 2024 - 2 23 24

Published | Video Starts at 03:48

When you go to England in a place like that and you say you, the FBI, you, the intelligence community, go out there and surveil illegally Donald Trump associates, someone's got to authorize that. Now, We know it was John Brennan and Obama who came in with the directive [to surveil illegally Donald Trump associates]. but who issued the order on the ground to allow that to happen under the law. Gina Haspel, London station chief in 2016, who would later go on to be Trump's CIA director. (03:48–03:52)

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Asserts that John Brennan and Barack Obama directed illegal surveillance of Trump associates.

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