John Brennan under scrutiny for potential perjury in new CIA review

Brace yourselves — current CIA Director John Ratcliffe has unleashed a political firestorm that could engulf former CIA chief John Brennan in serious legal trouble.

In a stunning move last week, Ratcliffe declassified an internal CIA review that brands the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian election interference as flawed and politically tainted under Brennan’s leadership, while casting doubt on the truthfulness of Brennan’s past testimony to Congress, as Breitbart reports.

Let’s step back to 2016 when Brennan was at the helm of the CIA during a fiercely contested U.S. election period.

Unmasking a tainted report

The Intelligence Community Assessment, known as the ICA, was supposed to provide an unbiased analysis of alleged Russian meddling, but many Republicans and Trump supporters have long argued it was compromised by partisan motives.

Central to this dispute is the Christopher Steele Dossier, a questionable document bankrolled by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC, filled with unverified allegations like the notorious “pee tapes” supposedly tied to Donald Trump.

To add to the mess, the Clinton campaign and DNC shelled out a significant six-figure fine to resolve a Federal Election Commission investigation for improperly reporting payments for this dossier through firms like Perkins Coie and Fusion GPS — hardly a shining moment of transparency.

Brennan’s questionable push for Dossier

Fast forward to Ratcliffe’s bombshell last week, when he made public an internal CIA review that backs up these criticisms, labeling the 2016 ICA as deeply flawed.

According to page five of the review, career CIA officers objected to including the Steele Dossier in the assessment, yet Brennan overruled them, even documenting his insistence in writing.

Contrast that with Brennan’s closed-door testimony to Congress, where he reportedly denied advocating for the dossier’s inclusion — a claim that now appears at odds with Ratcliffe’s findings.

Contradictions in Brennan’s public statements emerge

Adding fuel to the fire, Brennan told the Wall Street Journal in early 2017, “I would have no interest in trying to give that dossier any additional airtime.”

Seriously? Ratcliffe’s review suggests Brennan not only engaged with the dossier but actively ensured its place in a pivotal national security document, raising eyebrows about his candor.

Well, it seems actions might just come with a receipt, and these inconsistencies could put Brennan in the crosshairs for potential perjury issues.

Ratcliffe’s crusade for reform

Ratcliffe, who in 2020 as Director of National Intelligence declassified files showing Brennan briefed Obama on Clinton’s plan to tie Trump to Russia as a distraction, isn’t holding back now.

In a recent exclusive with Breitbart News, he described Brennan’s time at the CIA as “one of the worst things that has ever happened to the Agency,” while detailing efforts to strip politics out of intelligence work.

As Ratcliffe declared on X, “[President Donald Trump] has trusted me with helping to end weaponization of US intelligence,” and he’s clearly on a mission to expose what he calls a corrupt process under Brennan — perhaps it’s high time for accountability in the intelligence community.