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   Federal prosecutors who are probing the weaponization of intelligence   
   and law enforcement against President Donald Trump and his allies have   
   sent a secret and rare request for evidence from the U.S. Senate   
   regarding former CIA Director John Brennan, signaling that they are   
   zeroing in on his questionable testimony going back nearly a decade on   
   his now-debunked efforts to tie Trump’s 2016 campaign to collusion with   
   Russia.   
      
   The overtures to the U.S. Senate and its intelligence committee from   
   U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones’ team in Miami began over the   
   last month and were formalized in a written request for documents,   
   transcripts and testimony last Friday, according to multiple people   
   directly familiar with the conversations.   
      
   Senate lawyers and prosecutors are negotiating the best way to transfer   
   the evidence, including a possible visit by the prosecution team to   
   Washington in the coming days.   
      
   The efforts are complicated in part because much of what Brennan   
   discussed in briefings dating to 2016 about alleged Russian interference   
   efforts and now-debunked allegations of Trump collusion are classified,   
   stored in secure briefing rooms and include evidence controlled by the   
   nation’s chief spy agency, the CIA, the sources said.   
      
   False testimony and injecting the bogus “Steele Dossier” into public   
   record The House Judiciary Committee last year formally referred   
   Brennan, who oversaw the Obama-era CIA, for prosecution, alleging he   
   gave false testimony in 2023 about his role in trying to bring the   
   discredited Steele Dossier into an intelligence assessment that   
   suggested Russia tried to help Trump beat Hillary Clinton. That   
   testimony is still covered by the five-year statute of limitations for   
   prosecuting false testimony to Congress.   
      
   The request to the Senate signals a possible longer-term conspiracy   
   case, seeking contacts with the Senate that stretches back nearly a   
   decade. Brennan’s last known testimony contacts with the Senate date to   
   June 23, 2017 and May 16, 2018, two dates that extend outside the usual   
   five-year statute of limitations.   
      
   Brennan did not respond to a request for comment sent to him through his   
   lawyer.   
      
   Just the News has reported previously that FBI Director Kash Patel   
   drafted a memo last year recommending that a decades-long string of   
   weaponized intelligence and law enforcement statements and alleged intel   
   against Trump and his allies that stretched from the 2016 Russia   
   collusion probe — codenamed “Crossfire Hurricane” — to Special Counsel   
   Jack Smith’s indictments against Trump a decade later should be viewed   
   as an ongoing criminal conspiracy to deprive American citizens of their   
   civil rights, allowing prosecutors to charge crimes outside the statute   
   of limitations as overt acts of an ongoing conspiracy.   
      
   Attorney General Pam Bondi assigned the task of reviewing the decades’   
   long trail of evidence for possible crimes and conspiracy to Quiñones,   
   whose team began collecting evidence in front of a federal grand jury in   
   Fort Pierce, Fla., the same courthouse where Smith brought his   
   now-dismissed prosecution for mishandling of classified documents   
   against Trump.   
      
   Brennan, the CIA director under President Barack Obama, and now a senior   
   national security and intelligence analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, is   
   one of the targets of that probe for his involvement in the 2017   
   Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) regarding Russia’s influence in   
   the 2016 election.   
      
   That assessment, published in the final days of the Obama   
   administration, concluded that Russia developed a “clear preference” for   
   Trump in that election and that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered   
   an influence campaign to “undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic   
   process, denigrate former Secretary of State [Hillary] Clinton, and harm   
   her electability and potential presidency.”   
      
   That same month, CIA Director John Ratcliffe released a scathing review   
   of the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment of Russian influence in   
   the 2016 election, criticizing Brennan for joining the FBI in pushing to   
   include disgraced British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s baseless   
   anti-Trump dossier. In particular, Ratcliffe concluded that the ex-Obama   
   CIA chief “showed a preference for narrative consistency over analytical   
   soundness.”   
      
   Ratcliffe also sent a criminal referral on Brennan to the FBI following   
   the CIA “lessons-learned” review earlier in July.   
      
   Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard also sent declassified   
   evidence to the Justice Department in July on what she dubbed a   
   “treasonous conspiracy” related to top U.S. intelligence officials   
   during the Obama administration allegedly politicizing intelligence   
   related to Russia and the 2016 election.   
      
   Last October, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan said Brennan   
   made “numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material   
   fact” that were contradicted by the record established by the House   
   Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the CIA.   
      
   A host of top Democrats — including President Barack Obama, Senate   
   Democrats, and Brennan himself — attempted to point to a 2020 Senate   
   Intelligence Committee report in an effort to defend themselves against   
   Russiagate evidence declassified by Gabbard, but that Senate report was   
   flawed and included a since-discredited claim that the Steele Dossier   
   was not used in and did not inform the 2016 U.S. intelligence community   
   assessment.   
      
   The Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in its April and August 2020   
   reports that British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited anti-Trump   
   dossier was not used in the body of the ICA and that the dossier claims   
   were not used to underpin any of the ICA’s findings — a conclusion   
   debunked by a House Intelligence Committee report declassified last year   
   and by a CIA review also released in 2025, and contradicted by a   
   yearsold public House report and other declassified records as well.   
      
   The Senate committee’s April 2020 report — which focused on the ICA —   
   also wrongly suggested that Brennan had opposed including the dossier in   
   the ICA, while the recently-declassified House report and last year’s   
   CIA review both include testimonial evidence that Brennan had actually   
   fought to put the dossier info in the assessment over the objections   
   from top CIA analysts.   
      
   The Senate Intelligence Committee’s fourth volume of its report on   
   alleged Russian meddling and the 2016 election, released in April 2020,   
   “found that the information provided by Christopher Steele to the FBI   
   was not used in the body of the ICA or to support any of its analytic   
   judgments.”   
      
      
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