BREAKING: John Brennan criminally referred to DOJ by House Judiciary Committee

First reported by the Federalist, a letter to Pam Bondi from House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan said, “We write to refer 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.' While testifying, 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."

“Making false statements before Congress,” Jordan continued, “is a crime that undermines the integrity of the Committee’s constitutional duty to conduct oversight.” The letter to Bondi detailed a number of instances where the former CIA director allegedly made false statements in front of Congress.

One of them included that he made when he was speaking about the CIA's role in developing the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA). The ICA had promoted the narrative that Russia had a preference for Trump in the 2016 election, that the Kremlin "aspired to help" Trump win.

“This conclusion — now known to be false — was based in part on the Steele dossier,” Jordan said in the letter.

"The Steele dossier was a series of reports containing baseless accusations concerning President Trump's ties to Russia compiled and delivered to the FBI in 2016 by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele. Subsequent investigations confirmed that the Clinton campaign and the DNC paid Steele via the law firm Perkins Coie and opposition research firm Fusion GPS to provide derogatory information about Trump's purported ties to Russia, which resulted in the discredited dossier. In July 2025, the Trump Administration declassified numerous documents showing that the ICA's main findings were false and that the Obama Administration knowingly fabricated the findings for the purpose of undermining the Trump Administration."

During his testimony before Congress, Brennan had said that "the CIA was very much opposed to having any reference or inclusion of the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment."

“As the newly declassified documents demonstrate, Brennan eagerly wanted to include information from the Steele dossier in the ICA, a fact Brennan himself documented in writing,” Jordan added in the letter. “This directly contradicts Brennan’s testimony that ‘the CIA was very much opposed to having any reference or inclusion of the Steele dossier in the [ICA]’ because as the Director of the CIA, Brennan spoke for the Agency.”

“In sum, Brennan’s testimony before the Committee on May 11, 2023, was a brazen attempt to knowingly and willfully testify falsely and fictitiously to material facts," Jordan added.