Senior intelligence and law enforcement officials working with the Department of Justice’s probe into former CIA Director John Brennan were issued subpoenas to testify before a grand jury.
The subpoenas of the FBI and other intelligence officials were issued after the DOJ had directed an attorney aligned with President Donald Trump to take over the investigation, according to CBS News. The probe into Brennan centers around false statements he provided to Congress regarding his involvement in investigations between the Russian government and Trump’s 2016 campaign.
A top prosecutor had also reportedly been removed from the investigation after suggesting that there was not enough evidence to make a case, CBS News reported on Friday. Brennan has not been charged with any crimes as of Monday evening.
The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The reported subpoenas come after the FBI reportedly ramped up its investigation into Brennan’s comments over his involvement in crafting an assessment suggesting a connection between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The House Judiciary Committee referred Brennan to the DOJ for criminal prosecution in October 2025, claiming he “knowingly made false statements” to Congress regarding his role in the Trump-Russia investigation.
The investigation specifically focused on his comments that the CIA was not involved with the Steele Dossier on three separate occasions between 2017 and 2023, according to Axios. Brennan told Congress in a closed 2023 interview that the “CIA was not involved at all” with the now-discredited Christopher Steele dossier.
“No, I was not involved in analyzing the dossier at all. I said the first time I actually saw it, it was after the election,” Brennan told the committee. “And the CIA was not involved at all with the dossier. You can direct that to the FBI and to others.”
Brennan came under investigation in 2025 after the current CIA Director, John Ratcliffe, referred Brennan’s reported misconduct to the current FBI Director, Kash Patel. U.S. Attorney John Durham also interviewed Brennan for more than eight hours in 2020 over his activities before the 2016 presidential election and the community assessment about Russia meddling in the campaign.
Trump’s campaign in 2016 found itself in a wave of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court abuses to secure wiretaps and monitoring of campaign associates due to the Steele dossier. It was later revealed that officials provided false information and orders that were declared invalid to secure the orders.
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