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Brennan Subpoenaed in Trump-Russia Conspiracy Probe
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In Short: Federal prosecutors will likely examine Brennan’s pivotal role in the Trump-Russia investigation as part of the grand conspiracy probe.
Former CIA Director John Brennan has been subpoenaed to testify before a Florida grand jury as part of an investigation into alleged conspiracy against President Donald Trump, according to a court filing by his lawyer, Ken Wainstein.
Brennan’s lawyer confirmed that the former director was subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in Fort Pierce, Florida, where prosecutors are building a case arguing that Trump and his allies were deprived of their civil rights over a decade-long saga involving weaponized intelligence and law enforcement statements.
The subpoena was delivered on the same day that Joe diGenova, the prosecutor leading the investigation, resigned amid displeasure from the Justice Department and White House over the pace and management of the probe.
Brennan’s lawyer wrote that the prosecutor told him Brennan was a 'target' of a narrower investigation for alleged false statements to Congress, and a 'subject' of a wider conspiracy investigation.
The wider conspiracy probe is aimed at assessing whether Trump’s civil rights were violated, and includes issues at Mar-a-Lago and beyond.
According to the filing, government prosecutor Kurt Olsen told Brennan’s counsel that the probe is 'far-reaching' and includes 'issues at Mar-a-Lago and beyond.
Brennan’s fingerprints were on the opening of the federal probe that became the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump and his campaign.
Brennan previously testified to Congress in 2017 that the U.S. encountered and was aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved in the Trump campaign.
Special Counsel John Durham noted that Brennan even briefed President Barack Obama and senior administration officials on Clinton’s plan to gin up a bogus Russia scandal against her GOP opponent, but Obama's team failed to stop it.
Federal prosecutors will likely examine Brennan’s pivotal role in the Trump-Russia investigation as part of the grand conspiracy probe.
Brennan's speaking fee typically ranges from $50,000 to $75,000, according to one speakers' bureau.
What this adds
The scope of the grand conspiracy probe and its potential implications for Brennan remain unclear.
What's confirmed
- Former CIA Director John Brennan has been subpoenaed to testify before a Florida grand jury as part of an investigation into alleged conspiracy against President Donald Trump, according to a court filing by his lawyer, Ken Wainstein.
- Brennan’s lawyer confirmed that the former director was subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in Fort Pierce, Florida, where prosecutors are building a case arguing that Trump and his allies were deprived of their civil rights over a decade-long saga involving weaponized intelligence and law enforcement statements.
- The subpoena was delivered on the same day that Joe diGenova, the prosecutor leading the investigation, resigned amid displeasure from the Justice Department and White House over the pace and management of the probe.
- Brennan’s lawyer wrote that the prosecutor told him Brennan was a 'target' of a narrower investigation for alleged false statements to Congress, and a 'subject' of a wider conspiracy investigation.
- The wider conspiracy probe is aimed at assessing whether Trump’s civil rights were violated, and includes issues at Mar-a-Lago and beyond.
- According to the filing, government prosecutor Kurt Olsen told Brennan’s counsel that the probe is 'far-reaching' and includes 'issues at Mar-a-Lago and beyond.
- Brennan’s fingerprints were on the opening of the federal probe that became the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump and his campaign.
- Brennan previously testified to Congress in 2017 that the U.S. encountered and was aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved in the Trump campaign.
- Special Counsel John Durham noted that Brennan even briefed President Barack Obama and senior administration officials on Clinton’s plan to gin up a bogus Russia scandal against her GOP opponent, but Obama's team failed to stop it.
- Federal prosecutors will likely examine Brennan’s pivotal role in the Trump-Russia investigation as part of the grand conspiracy probe.
- Brennan's speaking fee typically ranges from $50,000 to $75,000, according to one speakers' bureau.
What's still developing
- “Mr. Olsen explained that Director Brennan was a ‘target’ of the narrower investigation, and the investigation for which he was now being subpoenaed was the ‘more wide-ranging conspiracy,’ as to which our client was a ‘subject.’ However, he explained that the narrower investigation was ‘still viable,’ and that the issues in the narrower investigation might also be part of the larger investigation, such as being overt acts,” Brennan’s lawyer wrote.
- These revelations about the direction of the grand conspiracy probe provide the most detail about how prosecutors appear to be following an outline the FBI began assembling last summer.
- Shortly after taking the helm at the FBI, Director Kash Patel quietly launched an investigation into the decade of Democratic Party and deep-state antics ranging from phony allegations of Russia collusion to Jack Smith targeting the president.
- The conspiracy approach allows prosecutors to tie alleged criminal events currently covered by statutes of limitations to older events by treating them as part of an ongoing conspiracy, Just the News reported at the time.
- “Neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation,” Durham wrote.
- John Brennan’s actions at the beginning, middle, and end of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation and narrative is likely to feature prominently in the questions prosecutors will want him to answer in front of the grand jury.
- The subpoena to Brennan is among a flurry that have been issued in recent weeks.
- Wainstein said he was informed by a prosecutor that Brennan remains a target in a Washington-based investigation into whether he lied to Congress in 2023, a claim the former CIA director and his attorneys have consistently denied.
- The subpoena was disclosed hours ahead of a court hearing in Washington in a lawsuit brought by Brennan.