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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Brennan was not in the field.
So?
I care too.
And I care even more that Paul Manafort has been destroyed through illict lawfare.
It is worse than that: Many of the so-called Republicans are merely controlled opposition - willingly complicit.
Yes, but he is allowed to based on his party affiliation and religious beliefs.
Isn’t it interesting, a person who lies to congress or a court commits perjury and can be sentenced to jail BUT a president or reporter can lie to the entire US population and that’s not unlawful?
Yes, but “what difference does it make?”
Doesn’t matter if he committed murder on video.
Justice doesn’t exist here.
Unless its changed in the past 20 years, the gallows building is still standing and in use (though not as the gallows) on Ft. Huachuca.
Yes he has perjured himself and knowingly made false statements. But nothing will happen and the band played on.
Yes, and so what?
He’s a “made guy” in the Deep State.
I think its time for everyone to take a deep breath and realize the fact that its unlikely any of these people will be charged or convicted.
Unless its changed in the past 20 years, the gallows building is still standing and in use (though not as the gallows) on Ft. Huachuca.
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iirc, they still have an opreational 4 hold drop at “hangin judge parker’s gallows” in ft smith,ar.
maybe suited for hildabeast “homecoming”?
Many lives were destroyed - families bankrupted...all on the alter of white liberal elites... and their bottomless egos...and obscene hunger for power.
I know this much - we came within a hair's breath of living in a country where NO ONE could be elected President without the blessing of the KGB.., oops, I mean CIA, DOJ and deep state thugs. We were that close to being a police state.
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