Show Notes: Dumb Godfocker

Brennan Referred by Congress to DoJ

A report drafted by HPSCI in 2017, and recently declassified, shows Brennan’s testimony
to be false.
11 According to the report, the ICA included supporting evidence for the ICA’s false
claim that Russia “aspired” to help President Trump win the election.
12 The report directed the
reader to review “Annex A” for “additional reporting from an FBI Source on Russian influence
efforts.”13 Annex A, which was only included in the highest classified version of the ICA, was a
two-page summary of the Steele dossier along with “some analysis that struggled to imply that
some dossier findings might have been corroborated by intelligence.”14 The CIA officer who
served as the lead author of the ICA told HPSCI that he drafted Annex A “in coordination with
[the] FBI.”15
Ultimately, according to documents declassified by the Trump Administration, the
decision to incorporate information from the Steele dossier in the ICA “was jointly made by the
Directors of CIA and FBI[.]”16 A senior FBI analyst confirmed this fact, telling HPSCI that, after
debating for several days whether to include information from the dossier, “upper levels [at FBI
and CIA] decided to put it in.”17
Brennan’s assertion that the CIA was not “involved at all” with the Steele dossier cannot
be reconciled with the facts.

Brennan made the ultimate decision, along with
then-FBI Director James Comey, to include information from the dossier in the ICA; and, as
discussed further below, Brennan overruled senior CIA officers who objected to the inclusion of
the dossier material.