John Brennan spent years on cable news calling Trump a traitor.
Now he won't return phone calls from federal prosecutors.
And prosecutors just sent Brennan a secret request pointing to something much bigger coming.
The Grand Jury Request That Changes Everything
Federal prosecutors investigating weaponized intelligence just sent a rare secret request to the U.S. Senate for evidence on former CIA Director John Brennan.
They want his testimony going back nearly a decade – testimony about the Russia collusion hoax he helped create.
U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones formalized the written demand for documents, transcripts and testimony.
The request targets dates from 2017 and 2018 – outside the normal five-year statute of limitations.
Prosecutors are building a conspiracy case.
FBI Director Kash Patel drafted a memo last year recommending that the decade-long weaponization of intelligence against Trump be prosecuted as an ongoing criminal conspiracy.
That approach allows prosecutors to charge crimes outside the statute of limitations as overt acts of the conspiracy – the same strategy used against the mafia.
Attorney General Pam Bondi assigned the investigation to Quiñones, whose team is collecting evidence before a federal grand jury in Fort Pierce, Florida.
The same courthouse where Jack Smith tried to prosecute Trump.
The Steele Dossier He Swore He Opposed
The investigation focuses on his role in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that claimed Russia had a "clear preference" for Trump.
That assessment was built on the discredited Steele Dossier – opposition research paid for by Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Brennan told Congress in 2017 that top CIA officials were "very concerned about polluting the ICA with this material."
He claimed the dossier "was not used in any way as far as the judgments in the ICA were concerned."
He was lying.
Declassified documents released last year prove he personally fought to include the dossier over fierce objections from senior CIA analysts.
Two senior CIA officers told him the dossier "failed to meet basic tradecraft standards."
When confronted with the dossier's problems, he replied: "Yes, but doesn't it ring true?"
He overruled his own experts and jammed the dossier into the assessment anyway.
The dossier appeared in the main body text and a two-page annex – cited as the fourth supporting bullet for the claim that Putin "aspired" to help Trump win.
False Statements To Congress Exposed By The Record
The CIA's Deputy Director for Analysis warned him in writing that including the dossier risked "the credibility of the entire paper."
He ignored the warning.
The CIA's own review concluded he "showed a preference for narrative consistency over analytical soundness."
When confronted by two mission center leaders about specific flaws in the dossier, he was "more swayed by the Dossier's general conformity with existing theories than by legitimate tradecraft concerns."
He ultimately wrote that "my bottom line is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report."
The CIA review concluded bluntly: "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."
Years later, when testifying before the House Judiciary Committee in May 2023, he repeatedly claimed the CIA had "opposed" including the dossier.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan referred him for criminal prosecution, stating he made "numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact."
That 2023 testimony is still within the five-year statute of limitations for perjury.
But the Senate request reaches back further – prosecutors see a pattern of false statements as part of a larger conspiracy.
Why The DOJ Investigation And Criminal Prosecution Matter Now
CIA Director John Ratcliffe sent a criminal referral on him to the FBI following his agency's review.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard sent declassified evidence to Justice about what she called a "treasonous conspiracy" by Obama administration intelligence officials.
Brennan created the Russia collusion narrative that paralyzed Trump's presidency and spawned years of investigations.
He did it knowingly, overruling his own analysts, inserting Clinton campaign opposition research into official intelligence assessments.
Then he lied about it to Congress.
Multiple times.
Across multiple years.
Prosecutors are connecting the dots – if they prove he coordinated with Comey, Clapper, and others in a multi-year effort to undermine Trump using America's intelligence agencies, the statute of limitations becomes irrelevant.
Conspiracy charges reach back to connect every lie, every leaked assessment, every cable news appearance where he called Trump compromised by Russia.
His lawyers know what's coming.
The man who spent three years accusing Trump of treason on MSNBC now faces potential conspiracy charges that could send him to federal prison.
Justice is finally catching up to the man who started the Russia hoax.
Sources:
- John Solomon, Jerry Dunleavy and Steven Richards, "Prosecutors zero in on CIA's Brennan with secret request for years-old evidence from U.S. Senate," Just the News, February 19, 2026.
- House Judiciary Committee Republicans, "Chairman Jordan Refers John Brennan to DOJ for Criminal Prosecution," October 21, 2025.
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence, "New Evidence Uncovers Obama-Directed Creation of False Intelligence Report," July 18, 2025.
