One of the Democrat officials under the administration of Barack Obama who is considered to have been key promoter of the false Russiagate conspiracy that selectively attacked President Donald Trump now is accusing the current administration of “selective prosecution.”
A report at Fox News explains John Brennan, the CIA chief for Obama, has sued the government and is demanding a court order that records of any investigation into him be preserved.
He confirmed how he would use any records, as they involve “issuing pronouncements that evince a pre-conceived belief in Director Brennan’s guilt; making statements that disclose matters relating to open grand jury investigations, in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e); removing or sidelining career prosecutors who have balked at using the criminal process to promote the President’s retribution agenda; engaging in forum-shopping by moving the investigations from federal district to federal district in an effort to find a sufficiently pliant United States Attorney; and engaging in judge-shopping.”
Brennan, along with a long list of other Obama administration officials up to and including those in the Oval Office, worked desperately to influence the 2016 presidential election, trying to install their hand-picked choice, Hillary Clinton, to follow Obama’s tenure.
They used unsubstantiated claims from Clinton’s campaign that Trump somehow was being influenced by Russia, a claim never documented, to try to divert America’s attention away from Clinton’s own email scandals at the time.
Evidence to date has suggested that Brennan and a long list of others conspired to include a long list of false statements about Trump into an intelligence community assessment at the time.
He’s under federal investigation now for a variety of allegations, and Brennan is demanding a preservation of all investigative records.
Brennan’s lawyers claim the Department of Justice is investigating Brennan at Trump’s urging and they are looking for “phantom criminal conduct.”
They say the DOJ now is a “tool of retribution” against Trump’s “perceived adversaries.”
Fox reported that the FBI “had begun questioning current and former CIA officials as part of a Justice Department probe into Brennan and his role in the intelligence community’s 2017 assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Brennan has previously denied wrongdoing related to the Russia investigation and has defended the intelligence community’s assessment that Moscow interfered in the 2016 election.”
But the report noted “as of May, agents had interviewed roughly a dozen officials involved in drafting the assessment, with investigators focusing on how its conclusions were reached and whether Brennan may have misled Congress during his 2023 testimony.”
The assessment claimed Russia sought to “boost” Trump’s candidacy and apparently was influenced by the “Steele dossier,” a “collection of largely unsubstantiated allegations about Trump’s supposed ties to Russia that was funded by political opponents.”
Brennan’s lawyers already have said they’ll argue against any charges on the basis of “selective and vindictive prosecution” of the scheme that deliberately targeted Trump with false allegations.
A spokesperson for the DOJ noted, “It is certainly rich that John Brennan is accusing anyone of a ‘retribution campaign.'”
