Ex-CIA chief John Brennan referred for criminal prosecution over 'Russiagate,' is latest Trump foe in DOJ crosshairs [View all]
Source: The Independent
Tuesday 21 October 2025 15:42 EDT
After a wave of indictments against Donald Trump’s enemies, the president’s allies in Congress are now pushing the Department of Justice to file criminal charges against Barack Obama’s former CIA director John Brennan, who they have accused of lying to Congress.
In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan claimed Brennan “knowingly made false statements” to the panel during an interview in May 2023.
The allegations against Brennan, who led the nation’s intelligence agency during a federal investigation into allegations of Russian interference in U.S. elections in 2016, center around the so-called Steele dossier, a series of largely discredited documents compiled by a former British intelligence officer which accused the president and his allies of conspiring with the Kremlin.
Christopher Steele handed his memo to the FBI in 2016, and a summary of allegations were included in an intelligence report ordered by the Obama administration following Trump’s election. “Brennan’s assertion that the CIA was not ‘involved at all’ with the Steele dossier cannot be reconciled with the facts,” Jordan wrote Tuesday.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/john-brennan-criminal-charges-trump-russiagate-b2849552.html
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