Former Cia Director John Brennan 'clueless' About Why Fbi Would Investigate Him

Former CIA Director John Brennan told MSNBC connected Wednesday that he was "clueless" arsenic to what nan FBI could beryllium investigating him for aft Fox News Digital reported he could beryllium prosecuted for alleged wrongdoing successful nan Trump-Russia collusion probe.

Justice Department sources told Fox News Digital connected Tuesday that existent CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred grounds of wrongdoing to FBI Director Kash Patel for imaginable prosecution, citing Brennan’s handling of nan 2017 Russia collusion investigation arsenic an example. An investigation into erstwhile FBI Director James Comey is besides said to beryllium underway. 

Brennan told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace connected "Deadline: White House" that he had already testified successful beforehand of respective legislature committees regarding his decisions connected nan investigation and stood by his work.

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CIA Director John Ratcliffe cited imaginable wrongdoing successful erstwhile CIA Director Brennan's investigation into imaginable Trump-Russia collusion. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

"I deliberation that nan group who really worked this, some successful position of trying to cod intelligence anterior to nan predetermination and past nan ones who put together nan intelligence assessment, they really, I think, showed nan champion of what nan intelligence organization and what CIA is made of," Brennan said. "So again, I americium clueless astir what it is precisely that they whitethorn beryllium investigating maine for."

He added that he had not been contacted by nan DOJ connected nan matter.

"So I don’t cognize whether aliases not there’s immoderate validity to it," Brennan said. "If location was, it was a referral. If location is an investigation, presumably if location is an investigation, past group will beryllium questioned. I would beryllium questioned astir it. But again, I’ve had nary interaction from them." 

The Brennan investigation comes aft Ratcliffe past week declassified a "lessons learned" review of nan creation of nan 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA). The 2017 ICA alleged Russia sought to power nan 2016 statesmanlike predetermination to thief then-candidate Donald Trump. But nan reappraisal recovered that nan process of nan ICA's creation was rushed pinch "procedural anomalies," and that officials diverted from intelligence standards.

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Brennan has many times stood by his investigation successful respective legislature testimonies. (Reuters)

It besides wished that nan determination to see nan Steele dossier, a now-widely discredited anti-Trump document, "ran antagonistic to basal tradecraft principles and yet undermined nan credibility of a cardinal judgment."

Records declassified arsenic portion of that reappraisal further revealed that Brennan did, successful fact, push for nan dossier to beryllium included successful nan 2017 ICA. Brennan testified to nan House Judiciary Committee successful May 2023, however, that he did not judge nan dossier should beryllium included successful that intelligence product.

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Fox News' Brooke Singman contributed to this report.