A nervous John Brennan responded to Jim Jordan’s prison referral throughout an look on MSNBC this week.
Home Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Tuesday referred former CIA Director John Brennan to the Justice Division for prison prosecution for knowingly making false statements throughout a Might 2023 interview with the Home Judiciary Committee.
Jim Jordan’s prison referral is said to John Brennan’s false statements to Congress associated as to if the CIA relied on the Hillary Clinton-funded Steele file when drafting the ICA report.
“We write to refer vital proof that former Director of the Central Intelligence Company (CIA) John Brennan knowingly made false statements throughout his transcribed interview earlier than the Committee on the Judiciary on Might 11, 2023,” Jim Jordan’s letter to Bondi stated.
“Whereas testifying, Brennan made quite a few willfully and deliberately false statements of fabric truth contradicted by the report established by the Home Everlasting Choose Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and the CIA.”
“Beneath 18 U.S.C. § 1001, a witness commits a criminal offense if he “knowingly and willfully . . . makes any materially false . . . assertion or illustration” with respect to “any investigation or evaluation, performed pursuant to the authority of any committee . . . of the Congress[.]”2 Congress can not carry out its oversight operate if witnesses who seem earlier than its committees don’t present truthful testimony. Making false statements earlier than Congress is a criminal offense that undermines the integrity of the Committee’s constitutional obligation to conduct oversight,” Jordan stated.
Jordan added, “Brennan’s assertion that the CIA was not “concerned in any respect” with the Steele file can’t be reconciled with the info. Because the newly declassified paperwork present, a CIA officer drafted the annex containing a abstract of the file; Brennan made the final word resolution, together with then-FBI Director James Comey, to incorporate info from the file within the ICA; and, as mentioned additional beneath, Brennan overruled senior CIA officers who objected to the inclusion of the file materials.”
John Brennan additionally falsely testified that the CIA opposed together with the Steele file within the ICA report.
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace lashed out Jim Jordan and requested Brennan, “New tactic, similar story. What’s your response to Jim Jordan getting within the motion?”
John Brennan stated Jim Jordan is stepping into the motion of Trump’s “revenge tour.”
Nicely, it’s clear that that’s precisely what he’s doing. He’s making an attempt to get into the motion of Trump’s revenge tour. As I’ve stated a number of occasions on this program, in addition to in congressional testimony, I’ve cooperated with all these inquiries and investigations of the federal government,” Brennan stated as he shifted round in his chair.
“I’ve defined precisely what transpired in the course of the Russian interference within the 2016 election. And Jim Jordan now, I feel, is making an attempt to twist my phrases and misrepresent and mischaracterize the info as a approach to play to and be a supplicant to Donald Trump, which is why he’s making this referral now to the Division of Justice,” he stated.
“However as you identified, I’ve stated earlier than, this floor has been retread and plowed quite a few occasions. And I even wrote about it in my memoir, precisely what occurred there,” he added.
Brennan stated there isn’t a purpose why he would ever deceive Congress.
“Why, oh, why would I’ve any motivation to not inform the reality to Congress about this? As a result of it’s already a matter of public report,” Brennan stated.
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