‘Russiagate’: New prosecutor assigned to case being built against John Brennan
A new prosecutor is being assigned the case being built against John Brennan, Barack Obama’s CIA chief and one of the key activists who orchestrated the Democrats’ lawfare against President Trump, to include the “Russiagate” conspiracy theory and more.
The Washington Examiner said the Department of Justice now has reassigned the prosecutor who was overseeing the work.
The publication cited two sources familiar with the matter.
“Maria Medetis Long, a career prosecutor based in Miami who had been leading the case for months, is no longer handling the investigation, the sources confirmed to the Washington Examiner. A person familiar with the matter said only that Long would not be leading the case moving forward, adding that the circumstances surrounding the shift were not immediately known,” the report said.
It was CNN that reported sources suggested the move followed “disagreements” over the strength and timing of charges, claims the DOJ rejected in a statement to the Examiner.
“CNN reached out to us less than an hour before publishing its story,” a DOJ official confirmed. “As we would have told CNN, as a matter of routine practice, attorneys are moved around on cases so offices can most effectively allocate resources. It is completely healthy and normal to change members of legal teams.”
The federal investigation is located in the U.S. attorney’s office in Miami and for weeks authorities have been reviewing whether Brennan lied to Congress during his statements about the 2017 intelligence community assessment on Russian election interference.
Evidence suggests he demanded the fabricated “Steele dossier” with unsupported allegations about Trump be included, while he told Congress that was not his agenda.
Investigators already have been interview witnesses in the case, and reports suggest that activity recently has accelerated with a recent round of subpoenas.
The Examiner said, “That assessment concluded that Russia sought to influence the 2016 election specifically to help Trump. Recently declassified documents, however, show that conclusion was shaped by flawed sourcing and politicized analysis. Critics have pointed in particular to the inclusion of material tied to the discredited Steele dossier, which was financially backed by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, as well as internal disagreements among officials at the time over how strongly to characterize Moscow’s intent, given that intelligence agencies had little to no evidence that Russia wanted to boost Trump.”
Brennan has denied any wrongdoing and his lawyer claimed that the charges, triggered by his alleged part in the weaponization and politicization of the U.S. government, were political.
So far, the director of national intelligence has sent criminal referrals to the DOJ involving two people involved in the Democrats’ lawfare at the time.
Reports have confirmed that not only could Brennan face charges, so could ex-FBI chief James Comey.