Posted on 09/14/2019 8:57:50 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
Former CIA Director John Brennan might have perjured himself in testimony he delivered more than two years ago to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on May 23, 2017.
In an exchange with then-Rep. Trey Gowdy, Brennan claimed he didn’t know who commissioned ex-British spy Christopher Steele to write what would become the infamous “Steele dossier” that alleged Russia had damaging information on Trump and that Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the election.
Mr. Gowdy: “Director Brennan, do you know who commissioned the Steele dossier?”
Mr. Brennan: “I don’t.”
Brennan’s response to the question is similar to that of former special counsel Robert Mueller, who was asked about Fusion GPS—the company who hired Steele—during a hearing before Congress last month.
In response to questions by Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio), Mueller claimed he was “not familiar with” Fusion GPS, the firm that commissioned the Steele dossier, and said it was outside his “purview” to investigate. Notably, Fusion GPS was working on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, at the same time it also represented a Russian-based company, Prevezon, that had been sanctioned by the government.
Brennan, in his testimony, also claimed he didn’t know whether the FBI paid for a part of the dossier.
Mr. Gowdy: “Do you know if the FBI paid for any portion of the Steele dossier?”
Mr. Brennan: “I don’t know. I know that there are press reports related to that, but I don’t know. I have no firsthand knowledge of that.”
According to a House Intelligence Committee memo that was declassified in February 2018, the Steele dossier “formed an essential part” of the FBI’s FISA application to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Brennan, however, claimed he had no awareness of such use.
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Not under his religious belief system.
What’s perjury when you already committed treason? Who cares anyway, the left never gets arrested.
I think I remember that from his testimony which we all saw.
Yes, he did.
And it won’t matter one bit. He will skate.
As Hitlery always says under oath, “I do not recall....”
Standard response nowadays for the Deep State...and the other common criminals.
So what? He’ll never be prosecuted.
Brennan did commit everything. Not only he is a traitor for his own country. He is an ulcer on the face of Earth.
Perjury is the least of his crimes.
You are correct sir, unfortunately.
I doubt he had first hand knowledge.
John Brennan is guilty until proven otherwise... That’s the kind of treatment they gave Trump right?
None of alleged Trump crimes were proved even to slight extent despite enormous bias and resources involved.
Hillary, Brennan, Biden’s crimes are in the open. Only the very formal investigation needed to document it and formalize charges.
I care.
I care that we had a lying thug running ‘intelligence’...
Brennan= Central Intellegence Agency.
Yep, no way he could have known who the players were.
So what if Brennan did commit perjury?
Whatcha-gonna-do-aboutit? Other that furrow your bristly brows? Does John Brennan seem particularly nervous to you?
Not to me either.
When one of the two major political parties is used to being scorned, ignored and penalized by activist judges, they remain in a state of submission for a long time. It takes a long time to change that ‘stiff upper lip’ stoic sort of behavior. Many of us have begun the process of push-back just by openly discussing it. So there is hope.
Across the board change will take time and specific political victories.
POTUS Trump should order the rebuilding of the gallows at Ft Lesley J McNair....for historical purposes.
Pffffttt. The media will never allow Brennen to be charged. Never.
Well it wasn’t perjury perjury.
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