October 23, 2025
The arm of justice stretches toward John Brennan
By Wendi Strauch Mahoney
House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent a criminal referral to Attorney General Pamela Bondi on Tuesday alleging that former CIA director John Brennan made “knowingly and willfully” false statements to Congress about the role of the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community’s 2017 assessment (ICA) of Russian election interference. Brennan’s statements, according to the Oct. 21, 2025, press release, “were contradicted by the record established by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). Jordan’s letter asks DOJ to investigate potential violations of 18 USC §1001 (material false statements).
Jordan argues that significant declassified records show that the CIA helped incorporate Steele dossier material into the post-election ICA, contrary to Brennan’s testimony in a May 11, 2023 transcribed interview that “the CIA was not involved at all with the [Steele] dossier.” The referral cites the 2020 House Intelligence Committee majority report and other materials indicating an annex (Annex A) to the ICA summarized the dossier and was coordinated by a CIA officer.
According to the referral, documents declassified this summer show that “the decision to incorporate information from the Steele dossier in the ICA was jointly made by the directors of CIA and FBI” and that the ICA’s finding that Russia “aspired to help” Donald Trump was, in the committee’s telling, “now known to be false.”
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