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House Judiciary Committee Referred Brennan To The DOJ

House Judiciary Committee Referred Brennan To The DOJ

This time it’s John Brennan, the former CIA director and longtime architect of the intelligence community’s most controversial political maneuvers, who finds himself staring down a potential criminal prosecution.

The House Judiciary Committee, under the leadership of Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), has officially referred Brennan to the Department of Justice for criminal charges related to perjury. According to Jordan, the evidence is clear: Brennan lied to Congress. And not just once.


The referral centers on Brennan’s testimony from May 11, 2023, in which he flatly denied that the CIA relied on the now-discredited Steele Dossier when drafting the infamous Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) following the 2016 election.

That ICA played a critical role in justifying the surveillance, suspicion, and smear campaigns that followed Trump into office and haunted his administration for years. But as the record now shows — thanks to internal CIA documents and the work of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence — Brennan’s claims don’t hold up.

He didn’t just misremember. He didn’t just hedge. He denied outright what the documents now confirm: the Steele Dossier was part of the ICA’s formation process, and Brennan knew it.

This isn’t a minor discrepancy. It strikes at the heart of Russiagate — the prolonged, costly, and politically weaponized investigation that consumed years of American political life, poisoned public discourse, and contributed to a crisis of trust in institutions. If Brennan did, in fact, knowingly lie under oath, then what he did wasn’t just deceptive — it was corrosive to the very idea of democratic oversight.

And here’s where it gets even more interesting: Brennan’s referral comes not long after former FBI Director James Comey received his own. His indictment followed shortly thereafter. The pattern is unmistakable — one by one, the high-profile figures who once framed the Trump-Russia narrative are being dragged back into the light of accountability.

Legal analysts like Jonathan Turley have long warned that Brennan was the most exposed of all the intelligence officials involved in the early stages of Russiagate. Not just because of his role, but because of the paper trail. And now that trail may be leading straight to a courtroom.

Written by Mark Stevens - October 22, 2025