John Brennan, former CIA Director, is the latest Trump antagonist to face potential charges. Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) of the House Judiciary Committee has referred criminal charges to Department of Justice about how Brennan knowingly made false statements during his transcribed interview before the committee in 2023.
Jordan says that, while testifying, Brennan made numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact related to Russia collusion scandal.
Brennan claimed that the CIA was not involved with the Steele dossier, which has since been disproved. In fact, declassified documents show a CIA officer who wrote up a summary of the dossier. Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey choose to include that information in the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), and Brennan bypassed any objections from senior CIA officers against adding the information.
Comey has already been charged related to the Steele dossier. New York Attorney General Letitia James and former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton have been charged by the Justice Department in unrelated cases.
J. Christian Adams is a former Justice Department attorney who is also the founder of the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
"That's exactly why these events are good because it's a deterrent. That John Bolton and the New York attorney general and James Comey were indicted sends a message to the group of progressives — that there could be consequences for sending subpoenas and doing the things you did."
Adams is pleased that Trump is holding these individuals accountable.
"Trump was not going to allow people who railroaded him unfairly during the Biden years to not pay the consequences of their own problems. And that seems to be the theme here."
