Jordan refers former CIA Director Brennan to DOJ for criminal prosecution over House testimony

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Tuesday referred former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution, alleging Brennan knowingly made false statements during his transcribed interview before the panel in 2023.

Jordan, an Ohio Republican, says Brennan made "numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact" that were contradicted by the record established by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the CIA.

Such statements included the assertion the CIA relied on the so-called Steele dossier in drafting the post-2016 election Intelligence Community Assessment, Jordan says in his letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

The dossier was essentially opposition research, financed at least in part by Democrats, that the 2016 Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the election. The dossier, which in part led to efforts to impeach President Trump, has since been laregedly discredited.

Steele delivered his dossier to the FBI in 2016, and a summary of its allegations was appended to an intelligence community assessment, which was ordered by outgoing President Barack Obama after Trump was first elected — about Russia’s involvement in that year’s presidential campaign, according to Politico.

Jordan also said in a press release announcing the DOJ referral that Brennan falsely testified when he told the committee that the CIA opposed including the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment.