The potential conflict is more acute now that #ToddBlanche has installed #JoediGenova, a fmr US attorney for DC, to reinvigorate an investigation into what #diGenova has outlined as a broad “conspiracy” against #Trump spanning from the 2017 #Russia #ElectionInterference probe to the aborted Special Counsel Jack Smith prosecutions that ended in 2024.
DiGenova is based in Fort Pierce, FL, a federal court with few major criminal cases aside from Trump’s.
#JoeDiGenova’s appointment has rattled current & former employees of the #CIA who worry he will go after anyone inside the intelligence community who #Trump perceives to have played a part in politically motivated investigations, two of the sources said.
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The #DOJ last month removed the veteran prosecutor in Miami who had been leading the investigation into #Brennan. The department then installed #JoeDiGenova, a former federal prosecutor turned conservative legal commentator & critic of Brennan, to oversee the probe & a related effort to examine whether prior investigations into #Trump amounted to a conspiracy against the president. 🙄🥱
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Acting AG #ToddBlanche helped oversee the #DOJ’s investigation into #Brennan when #PamBondi was AG. #Trump fired Bondi in April amid mounting White House frustration with the pace & outcome of her team’s investigations.
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#Brennan’s lawyer said in a letter to the chief federal judge in Miami that prosecutors had told his client that he is a target of the investigation. He stated prosecutors were "#JudgeShopping" by trying to steer the investigation to a Trump-appointed judge in Fort Pierce, Florida, who previously dismissed a #criminal case against #Trump [yup, it’s the ever-so-compromised #AileenCannon.
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The dossier was referenced only briefly in the assessment & a summary of its allegations was attached to a classified version of the report. #Brennan has said the #CIA opposed including the #SteeleDossier in the report & the classified summary was only included as part of a compromise with the #FBI.
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Known as the #SteeleDossier after its author, fmr British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, the document was funded by Trump's political opponents & included salacious rumors about alleged links between his 2016 campaign & Moscow, which #Trump strenuously denied. [but it was just 1 document in the investigation]
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The current & former #CIA officers are being asked about #Brennan's role in producing the assessment & the extent to which its conclusions were shaped by a controversial dossier of unverified claims about Trump's ties to #Russia.
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And yet, still, #Trump, who has falsely described the #Russia investigation as a “hoax”, has pushed prosecutors to dig into those he perceives to have been involved in spearheading the probe, including #Brennan.
A source familiar with the Brennan investigation said that #FBI agents had questioned about a dozen current & former #CIA officers who worked on the 2017 assessment.
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Prosecutors have been examining whether he made a false statement to #Congress in 2023 in discussing a 2017 intelligence assessment that looked at #ElectionInterference by #Russia in 2016.
The core conclusions of that assessment, which focused on Russia’s cyber-espionage & influence efforts to boost #Trump’s candidacy over Hillary Clinton, were later affirmed by the #DOJ, a bipartisan #Senate committee & a #CIA review.
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