Brennan, Page, Strzok subpoenaed in DOJ's Russiagate probe

A grand jury has subpoenaed former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, as well as others, in the Department of Justice's Russiagate probe. They were served the federal subpoenas on Friday.

More subpoenas are reportedly expected for others in the coming days, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke to Fox News. The grand jury was out of the Southern District of Florida, and Jason Reding Quiñones, the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, is supervising the case.

Brennan had been criminally referred to the DOJ by the House Judiciary Committee in October, where Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) said there was "significant evidence that former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan knowingly made false statements during his transcribed interview before the Committee on the Judiciary on May 11, 2023."

"Brennan made numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact contradicted by the record established by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and the CIA," the referral added at he time.

Brennan has also been under criminal investigation. Strzok and Page also came under fire in 2018 when it was discovered that they had a long string of anti-Trump texts between the two of them, and both had been assigned to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team in 2017 to investigate supposed collusion with President Donald Trump and the Russians in the 2016 election.

Strzok also opened the initial FBI investigation in 2016, nicknamed "Crossfire Hurricane," as an FBI agent. Page resigned in 2018, and Strzok was fired in August 2018 after there were months of scrutiny over the anti-Trump text messages between him and Page. In congressional testimony, Strzok also confirmed that he and Page were in an extramarital affair.

The investigation into Brennan also comes after CIA Director John Ratcliffe declassified a review of the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), which alleged that Russia attempted to interfere with the 2016 election to help Trump. It was determined in a review of the ICA that the process was rushed with "procedural anomalies.”

The “lessons learned” review determined that the "decision by agency heads to include the Steele Dossier in the ICA ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles and ultimately undermined the credibility of a key judgment."

The dossier was widely discredited; records revealed that Brennan pushed for the dossier to be included in the 2017 ICA. However, in 2023, he testified in Congress that he did not think the dossier should have been in the ICA report.