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Time to exfiltrate Brennan and Comey and rustle up some body doubles?
The best I hope for is they go broke defending themselves when prosecuted for something.
Former CIA Director John Brennan claimed Wednesday he has “no idea” why he’s under federal criminal investigation.
The former top intelligence official is playing ignorance even as federal authorities probe his alleged role in pushing the discredited Steele dossier that sparked the FBI’s surveillance of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Brennan made the comments during an appearance on “MSNBC’s Deadline: White House.”
In the rush and tumble of the tsunami of anticlimactic disappointment over the strangely sudden end of the official Epstein investigation, a speck of hope appeared in the waves. It appeared in the form of a Fox News exclusive (i.e., a friendly leak), announcing that FBI Director Kash Patel has opened formal criminal investigations into former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Chief John Brennan, for their roles in manufacturing the RussiaGate hoax, interfering in elections, and for their seditious efforts to overthrow the American government.
Haha! Sorry! I was just kidding. It’s not for that stuff. The two men are under investigation only for lying to Congress.



Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee have formally referred former CIA Director John Brennan to Attorney General Pam Bondi for criminal prosecution.
Brennan is accused of knowingly lying to Congress about the CIA’s use of the discredited “Steele dossier” in the 2016 Trump–Russia “investigation.”
The former CIA chief, who now serves as an on-air commentator for NBC and MSNBC, allegedly made “willfully and intentionally false statements” during his 2023 testimony before the committee, according to a referral letter sent Tuesday by Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH).
In his Tuesday letter, Jordan said Brennan “knowingly made false statements during his transcribed interview” with the committee in May 2023.
Jordan cited multiple examples, including Brennan’s insistence that the CIA played no role in reviewing or incorporating the Steele dossier into post-election intelligence assessments.
“I said the first time I actually saw it, it was after the election,” Brennan told lawmakers at the time, according to the letter.
“And the CIA was not involved at all with the dossier.
“You can direct that to the FBI and to others.”
Jordan wrote that declassified records contradict that testimony, showing the CIA was directly involved in handling the Steele dossier.
According to newly declassified documents obtained by The Federalist, a CIA officer drafted an annex summarizing the Steele dossier, which Brennan and then–FBI Director James Comey included in the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that followed Trump’s 2016 victory.
“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,” Jordan wrote.
The short version is that Brennan swore to Congress that the discredited Steele Dossier (the “pee pee files”) were not used in any way as a predicate for wiretapping and investigating President Trump. But, “As the newly declassified documents demonstrate, Director Brennan eagerly wanted to include information from the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment, a fact Brennan himself documented in writing,” Chairman Jordan wrote in the letter.
Here’s one example (of several) that Chairman Jordan cited in his letter:
Mr. Gowdy. Do you know if the Bureau ever relied on the Steele dossier as . . . part of any court filings, applications, petitions, pleadings?
Mr. Brennan. I have no awareness.
Mr. Gowdy. Did the CIA rely on it?
Mr. Brennan. No.
Mr. Gowdy. Why not?
Mr. Brennan. Because we ... didn't. It wasn't part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. It was not in
any way used as a basis for the Intelligence Community assessment that was done... [I]t was not.
But newly declassified documents (thanks, Tulsi!) show that Director Brennan insisted on attaching the Steele Dossier to the critical Intelligence Community Assessment that launched the Russiagate hoax. In other words, he’s an insurrectionist and a liar.
It remains to be seen whether the DOJ acts on Jordan’s letter, but at this point on the Russiagate justice arc, inaction would be surprising. Last month, former FBI Director James Comey’s indictment shattered records, when that bottom-feeding official became the first FBI Director to be prosecuted in US history— also for making false statements to Congress. So, while Brennan would be the first CIA director prosecuted in the U.S., it would not be unprecedented.
You may not be surprised to discover that Mr. Brennan has gotten away with it for years. A Guardian headline from July 2014:
This article is more than 11 years old
CIA director John Brennan lied to you and
to the Senate. Fire him
Trevor Timm
In that unfortunate encounter, Senators from both parties accused Brennan, then Obama’s CIA Director, of spying on Senate staffers and trying to set them up for prosecution. Then he lied to Congress about it.
Ron Wyden
@RonWyden
@CIA broke into Senate computer files. Then tried to have Senate staff
prosecuted. Absolutely unacceptable in a democracy.
1:25 PM • Jul 31, 2014
Back then, under Obama, nothing at all happened. The Senate fumed but did not act. The 2014 Senate did not refer Brennan to the DOJ— even though the CIA had criminally referred Senate staff for allegedly hacking CIA computers. Instead, a couple months later, the CIA “apologized,” for misconduct that the IC-owned media helpfully shrank down to “snooping.” Politico, July 2014:
CIA apologizes for snooping on Senate staffers
By JOSH GERSTEIN | 07/31/2014 01:10 PM EDT
It’s not certain that the DOJ will take up the referral and indict Obama CIA Director and Russiagate architect John Brennan for lying to Congress. But my money is on some kind of indictment— maybe lying plus something even bigger.
My hope is that today’s roundup proves that, unlike during Trump 1.0, the Swamp is not only being drained— but we are just getting started.

Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey praised the Democrat-aligned federal judge who dismissed the criminal case against him this week.
Comey is arguing that the indictment was driven by political animus and mishandled by prosecutors.
The ruling, however, is already being challenged by President Donald Trump’s administration.
The Trump admin maintains that the case was properly brought and plans to continue pursuing legal action.
Activist Judge Cameron Currie, a Bill Clinton appointee, threw out the false-statements charges on Monday.
The judge argued that the prosecutor who handled the case, interim U.S. Attorney Lindsay Halligan, had not been lawfully appointed.
Currie’s ruling also invalidated a separate indictment against New York’s Democrat Attorney General Letitia James on the same grounds.
Comey immediately seized on the ruling as vindication, issuing a sharply worded statement.
"Hurr durr, doesn't matter, I hate winning, I love feeling oppressed. If Trump hasn't fixed everything in 6 months he's a failure, boo hoo, choke me harder, Deep State Daddy. " - Panicans