The former heads of the FBI and the CIA are under investigation because of the case of Trump's ties with Russia. What the media is writing
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A criminal investigation is underway in the United States against the former heads of the CIA and the FBI, John Brennan and James Comey. They are accused of violating quality standards in 2017 when they checked US President Donald Trump's ties with Russia. The head of the White House called their conclusions a hoax, which was confirmed by a recent CIA report. What the media write about the persecution of former officials is in the Izvestia digest.
Fox News: The US Department of Justice has launched an investigation into Brennan and Comey
Sources in the US Department of Justice have reported that former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan and former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) James Comey are under criminal investigation for possible offenses related to the investigation of US President Donald Trump's ties with Russia, including alleged false testimony to Congress. Current CIA Director John Ratcliffe handed over evidence of Brennan's wrongdoing to FBI director Cash Patel.
Fox News
Sources said that the referral had been received and that a criminal investigation into Brennan had been launched and was ongoing. Sources in the Ministry of Justice declined to provide additional details. It is unclear at this point whether the investigation goes beyond his alleged false testimony to Congress.
The investigation into Komi's attitude is also ongoing. The full scope of the criminal investigations into Brennan and Comey is unclear, but two sources described the FBI's view of the pair's interactions as a "conspiracy" that could open up a wide range of potential prosecution options.
Reuters: investigation is aimed at officials who angered Trump
The criminal investigation is targeting two former officials who have long angered Trump and his supporters for their role in probing Russian interference in the 2016 election. Comey was the head of the FBI when authorities launched an investigation in 2016 into possible collaboration between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to influence the election. Trump fired Comey in 2017 at the beginning of his first term.
Reuters
Then the investigation was handled by former special prosecutor Robert Mueller, who found no evidence of criminal collusion between Trump's 2016 election campaign and Russia. Trump has opposed the investigation for years and repeatedly called it a "Russian hoax."
Brennan was head of the CIA when U.S. intelligence concluded in a January 2017 report that Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to influence the 2016 U.S. election in favor of Trump. The CIA review, published last week, identified shortcomings in the preparation of the 2017 assessment, but its main conclusions are not in doubt.
New York Post: What the CIA reported in the latest report
The investigation into Brennan began a week after the CIA published a "lessons learned review," an assessment of the Obama administration's spy agencies that alleged that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Trump. In a devastating assessment, an email appeared in which Brennan insisted on including the discredited "Steele dossier" in the report, despite the strong protest of two of the CIA's most senior experts on Russia, who said that it "does not meet even the most basic standards of operational work."
New York Post
Another CIA official warned him that including the dossier in the report could "cast doubt on the credibility of the entire work," but Brennan "consolidated his position in writing, stating that he "believes that this information deserves to be included in the report." The report also says that Brennan, Comey, and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper were "overly involved" in the preparation of the assessment and in the "chaotic," "atypical," and "clearly unconventional" process of its hasty completion.
The current CIA report claims that leaks to the media could have influenced analysts to accept the false version of Trump-Russia collusion. A special place in the critical report was occupied by the "Steele dossier" — it was compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele on behalf of Fusion GPS, which collected dirt on Trump on behalf of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic Party. In 2022, Brennan testified in Congress that, in his opinion, the dossier should not have been included in the report on Trump's ties to Russia.
The Washington Times: The White House welcomes the investigation against Brennan and Comey
White House press Secretary Caroline Leavitt called Brennan and Comey "disgraceful individuals" in a comment on the investigation launched against them. According to her, they opposed the US constitution and lied to Congress, for which the Ministry of Justice should hold them accountable.
The Washington Times
"We have seen corruption at the highest level directed against President Trump. The Deep State threw everything at him to prevent him from returning to this big, beautiful White House that I see behind him. And he got his way, and the truth has to come out," she said. "I am glad that the Ministry of Justice is launching this investigation."
Investigations into Trump's ties to Russia were a major topic of the president's first term, although he categorically denied any connection to the Kremlin. In addition to the investigation of the intelligence community in 2017, Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller conducted his investigation in 2019. His findings showed that the Trump campaign headquarters did not collude with Russia to influence the election results.
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