Miranda Devine writes for the New York Post about bad news for a former top American spy chief.
John Brennan, the disgraced former Obama CIA director, may have opened himself up to perjury charges after a new email was uncovered in a scathing internal review by CIA career professionals of the agency’s 2016 Trump-Russia collusion assessment.
Brennan is said to be under renewed scrutiny by authorities over discrepancies between his sworn testimony to federal investigations and his written orders to underlings conducting the Intelligence Community Assessment commissioned by President Barack Obama in December 2016 that found Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump.
The review, declassified last week, found that Brennan insisted on the inclusion of the discredited Steele dossier, over the strong objections of the CIA’s two most senior Russia experts, who said it “did not meet even the most basic tradecraft standards.”
Then-CIA Deputy Director for Analysis (DDA) David Cohen warned in an email to Brennan on December 29 that including the dossier in any form risked “the credibility of the entire paper.”
But Brennan “formalized his position in writing, stating that ‘my bottom line is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report.’”
The Steele dossier was a tawdry opposition research document written by British former spy Christopher Steele and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign. It contained numerous made-up claims, including the ridiculous lie that Trump, a renowned germaphobe, had paid prostitutes to urinate on a bed in a Moscow hotel room. The 2023 report by special counsel John Durham stated that “the FBI was not able to corroborate a single allegation contained in the Steele Report.”
Last week’s CIA review by the deputy director of analysis found that when Brennan was “confronted with specific flaws in the Dossier by the two [Russia] mission center leaders — one with extensive operational experience and the other with a strong analytic background — he appeared more swayed by the Dossier’s general conformity with existing theories than by legitimate tradecraft concerns.”
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