House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) yesterday referred ex-CIA Director John Brennan to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution. He wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi, stating that former CIA head John Brennan “made numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact contradicted by the record.… 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. 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.”
Excerpts from the six-page letter explain:
“Brennan falsely denied that the CIA relied on the discredited Steele dossier in
drafting the post-election Intelligence Community Assessment” which stated “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.…” The 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.
“Brennan’s assertion that the CIA was not ‘involved at all’ with the Steele dossier cannot
