A grand jury in the Southern District of Florida federal court has issued subpoenas for former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan and former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. This was reported by Fox News channel, citing sources.
According to them, Brennan, Strzok and Page received summons on Friday and up to 30 more summons will be issued in the coming days. This is due to an investigation by the US Department of Justice, which is studying violations in the case of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
Strzok, who worked on counterintelligence issues at the FBI, worked on the team of former special counsel Robert Mueller, who led the investigation into US President Donald Trump's alleged ties to the Russian Federation. He was fired by the FBI in August 2018 due to a 2016 correspondence with colleague Lisa Page. In his message, Strzok wrote that he intended to prevent Trump from being elected, criticized Republican policies and made other political statements. Page retired from the FBI in May 2018.
Former Trump adviser's house was searched
On October 21, the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee requested the US Department of Justice to prosecute former CIA director John Brennan for making false statements related to President Donald Trump and Russia. Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi that Brennan lied to Congress under oath.
In September, former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey was charged with making false statements to Congress as well as obstruction of justice. In late August, Trump, in an interview with The Daily Caller, said that he would not object to the arrest of Comey and Brennan in connection with their alleged involvement in the dissemination of deliberate disinformation by the US Democratic Party about Russian interference in the 2016 US election.
Manufacturing intelligence
US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard published a report in July stating that the administration of the 44th US President, Democrat Barack Obama, after the victory of Republican Trump in the 2016 presidential election, actually fabricated intelligence data that allegedly pointed to Russian interference in the election process. Gabbard said this was done to try to strip Trump of power. According to her, a few months before the election, US intelligence agreed: Russia had neither the intention nor the ability to interfere in them. However, in December 2016 (after Trump's victory), the Obama administration ordered the preparation of a new report that contradicted previous assessments. Gabbard explained that the key intelligence finding that Russia did not influence the election results has been withdrawn and classified.
Trump has repeatedly denied suspicions of any inappropriate contacts with Russian officials. Moscow also called accusations of efforts to influence the course of the US election baseless.
