Asked during the first polygraph test administered as part of the vetting process to join the agency if he ever supported any groups committed to the subversion of the US, Brennan answered affirmatively: he once voted for the Communist ticket in a presidential election, supposedly as a protest vote against both Republicans and Democrats. Why he chose such a controversial third party instead of, say, the Libertarian or Green parties, is unknown, but readers can judge for themselves why.
As shocking as Brennan’s confession is, it’s not nearly as disturbing as the fact that the agency accepted him into its fold after he revealed his past vote for the Communist Party. It really makes one wonder who is in charge of the CIA these days, and what their goals are:
“‘I said I was neither Democratic or Republican, but it was my way, as I was going to college, of signaling my unhappiness with the system, and the need for change. I said I’m not a member of the Communist Party, so the polygrapher looked at me and said, ‘OK,’ and when I was finished with the polygraph and I left and said, ‘Well, I’m screwed.”
But he soon got his admission notice to the CIA and was relieved, he said, saying that though the agency still had long strides to make in accepting gay recruits and minorities, even then it recognized the importance of freedom.
‘So if back in 1980, John Brennan was allowed to say, ‘I voted for the Communist Party with Gus Hall’ … and still got through, rest assured that your rights and your expressions and your freedom of speech as Americans is something that’s not going to be disqualifying of you as you pursue a career in government.'”
Source: CNN
He converted to Islam