BREAKING: Ex-CIA director’s son Kyle Brennan arrested on child porn charges

The arrest stemmed from tips in 2024 but was not referred to the FBI until October 2026. The criminal complaint was signed on Friday and Brennan was arrested. He is facing a charge for the “transportation of child pornography” after authorities allegedly found the child sex abuse material on his device. The Daily Mail was the first to report the arrest.

A sworn affidavit from the FBI stated that officer “observed approximately 88 images that appeared to depict minor girls, including prepubescent girls, engaged in sexually explicit conduct.” The document further stated that there was a graphic image of a toddler and a “fully nude pubescent minor girl on a locker bench.”

The affidavit states that probable cause was derived from a tip submitted to the CyberTipline reports by Adobe to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. That tip said that an Adobe account later determined to belong to Brennan was used to upload “suspected child sexual abuse material” to his account. That account, per the tip, continued to add files.

Search warrants were executed at Brennan’s Warrenton, VA home and his electronic devices were seized. “During the FBI’s review of the iPhone the FBI observed approximately 88 images that appeared to depict minor girls, including prepubescent girls, engaged in sexually explicit conduct,” the affidavit reads, before explicitly detailing what was shown in the images.

John Brennan is under investigation as well over the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, where Trump was falsely linked to Russia for the purpose of election interference. He had been referred to the Justice Department by Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan in 2025.