“At his first polygraph test to enter the CIA, the future director had a secret,” CNN reports.
“John Brennan recalled being asked a standard question for a top security clearance at his early CIA lie detector test: Have you ever worked with or for a group that was dedicated to overthrowing the US?”
Said Brennan: “I froze. This was back in 1980, and I thought back to a previous election where I voted, and I voted for the Communist Party candidate.”


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