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07 Jul 2025, 19:09 GMT+10
John Brennan allegedly denied under oath his role in including the notorious Steele dossier in the 2016 report on Russian interference
Former CIA Director John Brennan could face a perjury probe over his role in the 2016 "Russiagate" conspiracy, which claimed Moscow worked to undermine Hilary Clinton's unsuccessful presidential campaign in favor of Donald Trump, according to US media.
The current chief of the US spy agency, John Ratcliffe, has claimed that senior security officials manipulated aspects of the investigation, which was commissioned by then-President Barack Obama in 2016.
Republican critics have long maintained that the final document was politically motivated and intended to damage Trump's first presidency. Moscow has denied interfering in the US electoral process or "colluding" with Trump's campaign.
Last month, Ratcliffe declassified an internal CIAreviewof the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), which some media outlets claim proves that Brennan lied under oath during a closed-door congressional hearing in 2017. Allegations of this nature have circulated for years.
"John Ratcliffe is a genius," a congressional source told Breitbart News in comments published on Sunday. "He just got career CIA officers to admit the 2016 ICA was corrupted and to offer up Brennan on a silver platter... The DOJ could have a field day with this."
A second source said lawmakers were "stunned" by the contents of the internal review, claiming Brennan "knew the entire time that he was trying to wreck Trump's presidency before it even started."
The declassified review, released June 26, includes testimony from an intelligence official who described Brennan's influence over the inclusion of references to the Steele dossier in the ICA. The dossier - a collection of unverified allegations linking Trump's campaign to Russia - was compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele and funded by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign.
The intelligence official said Brennan "showed a preference for narrative consistency over analytical soundness." The spy chief reportedly wrote to skeptics: "My bottom line is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report." In his 2017 testimony, Brennan reportedly claimed he had not advocated for the dossier to be mentioned in the ICA.
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Senior US intelligence officials are rarely prosecuted for misleading the public, even when the available evidence appears compelling. One notable example is James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, who told Congress in 2013 that the National Security Agency was not "wittingly" collecting data on millions of American citizens.
Documents later leaked by Edward Snowden showed that the agency was doing precisely that. The former NSA contractor is facing prosecution in the US for exposing the mass surveillance program and was granted asylum in Russia.
(RT.com)
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