JUST IN: Notorious Anti-Trump FBI Officers Subpoenaed By Grand Jury
A federal grand jury in Florida has subpoenaed former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok and will soon be serving a number of other former Obama-era officials as part of the Justice Department’s ongoing probe into the Russian collusion hoax.
Strzok, the FBI’s former deputy assistant director of counterintelligence and Page, a former FBI lawyer, were served with federal subpoenas on Friday. Strzok played a leading role both in quashing the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server in 2016, and was later instrumental in the formation of Crossfire Hurricane, the bureau’s official title for the investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election on behalf of President Donald Trump.
The investigation has since been found to have been completely without merit, as it was launched using bogus Clinton Campaign-funded opposition research, which was then fast-tracked in the CIA’s annual intelligence report, according to materials released as part of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation, as well as intelligence memos from the CIA and NSA.
In text messages sent by Strzok to Page — with whom he was having an affair — after Trump was first elected in 2016, he openly gloated that the investigation would “stop” Trump from getting anything done. He also expressed disdain for Republicans and the president’s supporters as part of more than 5,000 text messages that were reviewed by congressional investigators.
Strzok testifies before a joint hearing of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees on July 12, 2018
According to a report from Fox News, up to 30 subpoenas are expected to be issued in connection with the Russian collusion hoax in the coming days. The grand jury is out of the Southern District of Florida, with U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida Jason Reding Quiñones supervising the probe.
Page and Strzok first made national headlines when in 2018 when Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz uncovered a series of more than 5,000 anti-Trump text messages between them. Both were assigned to work on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team in 2017.
Page resigned from the bureau in May 2018, while Strzok was eventually fired in August of that year.
As for the criminal investigation into John Brennan, he was referred for potential criminal prosecution by current CIA Director John Ratcliffe due to his role in crafting the bogus Russian collusion probe. Grand jury subpoenas were issued earlier this week as part of an investigation into Brennan allegedly making false statements to Congress, though it is unclear whether the current probe is different from that one.
A “lessons learned” memo declassified by Ratcliffe concluded that the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) — which was used as the bedrock for Crossfire Hurricane — was riddled with “procedural anomalies” and fell short of intelligence standards.
It also determined that the “decision by agency heads to include the Steele Dossier in the ICA ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles and ultimately undermined the credibility of a key judgment.”
The infamous dossier — an anti-Trump document filled with salacious and thoroughly-debunked allegations against the president, which was commissioned by Fusion GPS and paid for by Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC — has been widely discredited.
President Barack Obama meets with then-John Brennan, Deputy National Security Advisor for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, in the Oval Office, Jan. 4, 2010.
(Official White House photo by Pete Souza)
Records declassified by the agency show that Brennan did indeed push for the Steele Dossier to be included in the 2017 ICA, directly contradicting testimony he gave before Congress in 2023.
The false statements portion of the probe stems from a newly declassified email sent to Brennan by the former deputy CIA director in December 2016, which stated that including the Steele Dossier could jeopardize the report’s credibility.
“Despite these objections, Brennan showed a preference for narrative consistency over analytical soundness,” the new CIA review states. “When confronted with specific flaws in the Dossier by the two mission center leaders – one with extensive operational experience and the other with a strong analytic background – he appeared more swayed by the Dossier’s general conformity with existing theories than by legitimate tradecraft concerns.”
Former FBI Director James Comey is currently facing criminal charges for allegedly making false statements to congress over his role in crafting the ICA report. He has pleaded not guilty.