House Republicans refer Obama intel goon John Brennan to DOJ for prosecution

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is throwing former CIA Director John Brennan’s hat into the prosecutorial ring.

Jordan referred Brennan to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution on Tuesday, claiming that he made false statements in front of Congress related to the 2016 Russian collusion investigation. He fired off a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi outlining the lies he believes Brennan told, which include his statements on the infamous and discredited Steele dossier.

“Brennan falsely denied that the CIA relied on the discredited Steele dossier in drafting the post-election Intelligence Community Assessment,” the lawmaker wrote. “On January 6, 2017, the CIA, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and National Security Agency published a declassified version of an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) titled Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections. The ICA stated, among other things, that Russia ‘developed a clear preference’ for President Trump and ‘aspired to help’ him win the election. This conclusion, now known to be false, was based in part on the Steele dossier, which ‘was referenced in the ICA main body text, and further detailed in a two-page ICA annex.’”

“The newly declassified evidence also confirms that Brennan falsely testified to the Committee. During a transcribed interview on May 11, 2023, Brennan stated that ‘the CIA was not involved at all with the [Steele] dossier,’” Jordan’s letter continued.

Lie number 2? Falsely testifying “that the CIA opposed including the Steele dossier in the ICA.”

“Brennan testified that ‘the CIA was very much opposed to having any reference or inclusion of the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment,’” the letter says.

This claim is contradicted by multiple sources that reveal Brennan’s support for including the dossier in the ICA. According to a CIA memorandum declassified by the Trump Administration, when two CIA mission center leaders confronted Brennan with “specific flaws” in the dossier, Brennan disregarded their concerns, “appear[ing] more swayed by the [d]ossier’s general conformity with existing theories than by legitimate tradecraft concerns.” Brennan later “formalized his position in writing, stating that ‘my bottomline is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report.’”

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As the newly declassified documents demonstrate, Brennan eagerly wanted to include information from the Steele dossier in the ICA, a fact Brennan himself documented in writing.

As if it couldn’t get worse, Jordan is also charging that Brennan “provided false testimony during a [House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence] HPSCI hearing in 2017.”

“On May 23, 2017, Brennan testified before HPSCI at an open hearing titled ‘Russian Active Measures During the 2016 Election Campaign.’ During the hearing, Brennan falsely asserted that the ‘Steele dossier was not in any way used as a basis for the Intelligence Community assessment that was done,’” Jordan wrote.

“As discussed above, the HPSCI report and the CIA memorandum confirm not only that the Steele dossier was used as a basis for the ICA, but that Brennan insisted on its inclusion. This stands in stark contrast with Brennan’s testimony to HPSCI that the dossier was not used in drafting the ICA. Brennan’s testimony is also contradicted by the ICA itself, which references the dossier in the main body of the assessment and summarizes material from the dossier in an annex.”

The letter concludes by asking the DOJ to “examine whether any of Brennan’s testimony warrants a charge.”

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