Prosecutors zero in on CIA's Brennan with secret request for years-old evidence from U.S. Senate
Collusion, calumny, and consequences: The request to the Senate signals a possible longer-term conspiracy case, seeking contacts with the Senate that stretch back nearly a decade.
By John Solomon, Jerry Dunleavy and Steven Richards
Published: February 19, 2026 10:51pm
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.
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