House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, formally referred former CIA Director John Brennan to the Justice Department on Tuesday, alleging that Brennan knowingly made false statements to Congress about the agency’s role in the 2017 intelligence assessment of Russian election interference.
In a six-page letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Jordan said Brennan’s 2023 sworn testimony contained “willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact” related to the Steele dossier and its use in the Intelligence Community Assessment that examined Russia’s activities during the 2016 election.
The referral urges the Justice Department to investigate whether Brennan violated federal law under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, which prohibits knowingly providing false or misleading statements to Congress.
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