John Brennan spent years swearing under oath the CIA never touched the Steele dossier.
Now a federal grand jury in South Florida has been asking very different questions – and the career prosecutor running that probe just got removed.
Trump just sent someone to finish the job – and Brennan knows exactly what that means.
Brennan Lied to Congress and the Career Prosecutors Protecting Him Just Got Removed
Maria Medetis Long was the career federal prosecutor overseeing the Russian collusion hoax grand jury in the Southern District of Florida.
She's gone now.
The DOJ removed her after she signaled to Justice Department officials that the evidence wasn't strong enough to move forward against Brennan.
Career prosecutors said the same thing when Trump's team pushed to charge former FBI Director James Comey.
They said it again when the DOJ went after New York Attorney General Letitia James.
In the Comey case, the Eastern District of Virginia's top prosecutor expressed the same "concerns about evidence strength" – and Trump replaced him with someone willing to do the job.
The Deep State playbook has one move: stall, express concern, slow-walk until the clock runs out.
Trump's answer is always the same: appoint a new prosecutor who’s willing to go toe to toe with the Deep State.
What the Declassified Steele Dossier Documents Actually Proved Brennan Did
The case against Brennan isn't complicated.
He sat before the House Judiciary Committee in 2023 and testified that "the CIA was not involved at all" with the Steele dossier – and that the agency "was very much opposed" to including it in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian election interference.
His own written record says otherwise.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe declassified a "lessons learned" review last summer that found Brennan forced the dossier into the ICA over the objections of his own senior analysts.
A CIA officer told House investigators that when Brennan was confronted with the dossier's main flaws, he responded: "Yes, but doesn't it ring true?"
A December 2016 email from Brennan's own deputy director warned him directly that including the dossier in any capacity jeopardized "the credibility of the entire paper."
Brennan included it anyway – then told Congress under oath he hadn't been involved.
Jim Jordan's referral letter to the DOJ put it plainly: Brennan's sworn statements "cannot be reconciled with the facts."
Why Trump Picked DiGenova to Lead the Brennan Investigation
Newly appointed federal prosecutor Joe DiGenova isn't a new name in this fight.
As U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., under Ronald Reagan, DiGenova fought the permanent bureaucracy during the last administration that tried this hard to destroy a president.
Alongside Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing, he spent years digging into Joe and Hunter Biden's corrupt dealings with Ukraine.
Trump's campaign brought him in during the 2020 election challenges – and he's been arguing ever since that Brennan, Comey, and their allies ran a coordinated operation to manufacture the Russian collusion hoax and weaponize U.S. intelligence against a sitting president.
Now he has a grand jury and federal subpoena power to prove it.
DiGenova will serve as counselor to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and will oversee the probe directly from the Southern District of Florida, in the courthouse where Judge Aileen Cannon sits.
The Brennan Indictment Push Is Now Wider Than Anyone Reported
The grand jury seated in Miami has not been idle.
Fox News Digital reported that Brennan, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page have already been subpoenaed as part of the probe.
Law enforcement sources told Fox News that up to 30 additional subpoenas are expected in the coming days – hitting Obama-era officials across the intelligence apparatus.
Ratcliffe referred evidence of Brennan's wrongdoing to FBI Director Kash Patel for criminal prosecution last summer.
Patel has been direct about what comes next: "We're going to continue to make people like Comey and Brennan and Clapper and Page and Strzok answer for what I believe are their acts of criminal conduct."
John Solomon reported that prosecutors recently made an unusual request for certified Senate transcripts of Brennan's testimony – a step legal insiders say only happens when an indictment is close.
The career prosecutors who slow-walked this probe believed they could outlast the pressure – and Trump just proved them wrong.
Sources:
- Cristina Laila, "Joe DiGenova to Oversee Russian Collusion Hoax Probe After DOJ Removes 'Career' Miami Prosecutor For Slow-Walking Charges Against John Brennan," The Gateway Pundit, April 18, 2026.
- Sarah N. Lynch, "Trump lawyer from effort to overturn 2020 election to oversee probe of ex-CIA director, DOJ official says," CBS News, April 18, 2026.
- "Chairman Jordan Refers John Brennan to DOJ for Criminal Prosecution," House Judiciary Committee Republicans, October 21, 2025.
- "New Evidence Uncovers Obama-Directed Creation of False Intelligence Report," Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 2025.
- "Brennan, Strzok, Page subpoenaed as part of federal Russiagate probe: Sources," Fox News Digital, November 7, 2025.
- "New review finds John Brennan pushed to include Steele dossier in intel review," Fox News Digital, July 2, 2025.
- John Solomon, "John Solomon predicts Brennan indictment could come within 'weeks' as prosecutors request official transcripts," Fox News, April 15, 2026.
