John Brennan has been referred to DOJ for possible prosecution

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House Judiciary committee refers former CIA Director John Brennan to Justice Department for prosecution — Fox News

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan accuses former CIA Director John Brennan of making false statements about the Steele dossier's use in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment.

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Good! Very good news.

Long overdue.

 

[1srelluc]

Now we are talking!

Enjoy the "process" MFer.

 

[marvin martian]

House Judiciary committee refers former CIA Director John Brennan to Justice Department for prosecution — Fox News

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan accuses former CIA Director John Brennan of making false statements about the Steele dossier's use in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment.

apple.news

Good! Very good news.

Long overdue.

Finally. Brennan is a traitor and a war criminal.

 

[shockedcanadian]

House Judiciary committee refers former CIA Director John Brennan to Justice Department for prosecution — Fox News

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan accuses former CIA Director John Brennan of making false statements about the Steele dossier's use in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment.

apple.news

Good! Very good news.

Long overdue.

The issue with some people is that they are universally disliked. They have very few real backers based on principle.

Even GWB for all his flaws seems like a cool enough guy, a humane enough man that one could sit down and have a beer with him and shoot this breeze. Certainly his dad seemed like a man of some honour having fought in WWII etc. I'd probably say the same to a lesser degree of Obama.

 

[Blaster]

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Fox News
In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi Tuesday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, referred former CIA Director John Brennan to the Justice Department for allegedly making false statements to Congress.

Jordan accused Brennan of lying in his 2023 Judiciary Committee testimony by denying that the CIA used the Steele dossier in prepping the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian election interference, and falsely claiming the CIA opposed including it.

Declassified documents reportedly show Brennan approved the decision to include the dossier, despite objections from senior CIA officials.

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The Lunatic Democrats claim to be defending democracy.......by illegally using the CIA as their political weapon.

 

[Zincwarrior]

I thought the House was not in session.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

 

[BackAgain]

I thought the House was not in session.

It doesn’t have to be in session when the chairman forwards a recommendation to the DOJ.

 

[Zincwarrior]

It doesn’t have to be in session when the chairman forwards a recommendation to the DOJ.

Thanks. Learn something every day.

 

[MarathonMike]

Finally. Brennan is a traitor and a war criminal.

Seriously. Why did it take this long?

 

[BackAgain]

Here is the full text of the letter from Jim Jordan, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, to Pam Bondi, United States Attorney General, dated October 21, 2025, in which he refers former John Brennan, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for alleged false statements to Congress.

October 21, 2025


The Honorable Pamela J. Bondi
Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530


Dear Attorney General Bondi:


We write to refer significant evidence that former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan knowingly made false statements during his transcribed interview before the Committee on the Judiciary on May 11, 2023.¹ While testifying, Brennan made numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact contradicted by the record established by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and the CIA. Under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, a witness commits a crime if he “knowingly and willfully … makes any materially false … statement or representation” with respect to “any investigation or review, conducted pursuant to the authority of any committee … of the Congress[.]”² Congress cannot perform its oversight function if witnesses who appear before its committees do not provide truthful testimony. Making false statements before Congress is a crime that undermines the integrity of the Committee’s constitutional duty to conduct oversight.


The points below support an investigation into whether Brennan made false statements at his transcribed interview:

1. Brennan falsely denied that the CIA relied on the discredited Steele dossier in drafting the post-election Intelligence Community Assessment. 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 U.S. Elections.³ The ICA stated, among other things, that Russia “developed a clear preference” for President Trump and “aspired to help” him win the election.⁴ 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.”⁵ The Steele dossier was a series of reports containing baseless accusations concerning President Trump’s ties to Russia compiled and delivered to the FBI in 2016 by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.⁶ Subsequent investigations confirmed that the Clinton campaign and the DNC paid Steele via the law firm Perkins Coie and opposition research firm Fusion GPS to provide derogatory information about Trump’s purported ties to Russia, which resulted in the discredited dossier.⁷ In July 2025, the Trump Administration declassified numerous documents showing that the ICA’s main findings were false and that the Obama Administration knowingly fabricated the findings for the purpose of undermining the Trump Administration.⁸ 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.”⁹ He testified:

Mr. Gaetz. All right. So the fact that the DNC was providing the financing for the Steele dossier’s development doesn’t give you concern that it might be partisan?


Mr. Brennan. Again, that was happening back in 2016 … I understand how you were able to tie this to my reference to my expertise, but I don’t see any relevance to the Hunter Biden laptop issue now.


Mr. Gaetz. Well, you said that you signed this letter that we now acknowledge Joe Biden misused in a debate to fool the American public because you’re this great Russia expert, so I’m trying to understand your Russia expertise. And you were involved in analyzing this information.


Mr. Brennan. No, I was not involved in analyzing the dossier at all. I said the first time I actually saw it, it was after the election. And the CIA was not involved at all with the dossier. You can direct that to the FBI and to others.¹⁰



A report drafted by HPSCI in 2017, and recently declassified, shows Brennan’s testimony to be false.¹¹ According to the report, the ICA included supporting evidence for the ICA’s false claim that Russia “aspired” to help President Trump win the election.¹² The report directed the reader to review “Annex A” for “additional reporting from an FBI Source on Russian influence efforts.”¹³ Annex A, which was only included in the highest classified version of the ICA, was a two-page summary of the Steele dossier along with “some analysis that struggled to imply that some dossier findings might have been corroborated by intelligence.”¹⁴ The CIA officer who served as the lead author of the ICA told HPSCI that he drafted Annex A “in coordination with [the] FBI.”¹⁵ Ultimately, according to documents declassified by the Trump Administration, the decision to incorporate information from the Steele dossier in the ICA “was jointly made by the Directors of CIA and FBI[.]”¹⁶ A senior FBI analyst confirmed this fact, telling HPSCI that, after debating for several days whether to include information from the dossier, “upper levels [at FBI and CIA] decided to put it in.”¹⁷ Brennan’s assertion that the CIA was not “involved at all” with the Steele dossier cannot be reconciled with the facts. As the newly declassified documents show, a CIA officer drafted the annex containing a summary of the dossier; Brennan made the ultimate decision, along with then-FBI Director James Comey, to include information from the dossier in the ICA; and, as discussed further below, Brennan overruled senior CIA officers who objected to the inclusion of the dossier material.¹⁸

1. Brennan falsely testified when he told the Committee 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.”¹⁹ He testified:

Chairman Jordan. Who’d you learn [about the Steele dossier] from? How’d you learn about the dossier in December?


Mr. Brennan. I received a copy of it from the FBI when they were wanting to have a summary of that document … attached to the Intelligence Community Assessment that was done. This was before … we went to Trump Tower and briefed Donald Trump, when Jim Comey was going to talk to Donald Trump about the contents of that dossier.


And the CIA was very much opposed to having any reference or inclusion of the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment. And so they sent over a copy of the dossier to say that this was going to be separate from the rest of that assessment. And that’s when the CIA was given formal access to it.¹⁹


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.”²⁰ Brennan later “formalized his position in writing, stating that ‘my bottomline is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report.’”²¹ Similarly, the HPSCI report notes that when senior CIA officers demanded that Brennan remove the Steele dossier from the ICA, Brennan “refused to remove it.”²² When the officers presented evidence of the dossier’s “many flaws,” Brennan responded, “Yes, but doesn’t it ring true?”²³ Ultimately, Brennan “had to order [the dossier] included over the objections of [CIA] professionals.”²⁴


In sum, Brennan’s testimony before the Committee on May 11, 2023, was a brazen attempt to knowingly and willfully testify falsely and fictitiously to material facts. We therefore make this referral for the Department to examine whether any of Brennan’s testimony warrants a charge for the violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001.


Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.


Sincerely,

Jim Jordan
Chairman

cc: The Honorable Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member



¹ See Transcribed Interview of John Brennan, Former Dir., CIA, by H. Comm. on the Judiciary (May 11, 2023) [hereinafter “Brennan Interview”].

² 18 U.S.C. § 1001.

³ OFF. OF THE DIR. OF NAT’L INTEL., Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections (Jan. 6, 2017) [hereinafter “Russian Interference ICA”]. ****

(…footnotes continue as in letter…)


(This copy of the letter was generated from ChatGPT.)

 

[marvin martian]

Seriously. Why did it take this long?

He has protection in high places.

 

[MarathonMike]

General Milley should be charged with treason. Hopefully he's next.

 

[skye]

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

General Milley should be charged with treason. Hopefully he's next.

He has a pardon from Otto Penn.