Federal prosecutors appear to be focusing on former CIA Director John Brennan’s role at every major stage of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. Brennan has received a subpoena to testify in the ongoing grand conspiracy weaponization probe based in Florida, as reported [1] by Just The News.
Brennan is now a senior national security and intelligence analyst for NBC and MSNBC.
According to a speakers’ bureau, his typical speaking fee ranges from $50,000 to $75,000, while President Donald Trump officially revoked his security clearance in January of last year.
The subpoena was disclosed by Brennan’s lawyer in a court filing tied to Brennan’s separate lawsuit against the federal government.
That lawsuit seeks to preserve records related to investigations involving him.
A federal grand jury in Fort Pierce, Florida, is examining a possible conspiracy in which Trump and his allies allegedly were deprived of their civil rights through weaponized intelligence and law enforcement actions spanning decades.
Government prosecutor Kurt Olsen told Brennan’s counsel that the investigation is “far-reaching” and covers “issues at Mar-a-Lago and beyond,” according to the filing.
Olsen reportedly said Brennan was also the “subject” of a separate investigation involving alleged false statements to Congress.
“Mr. Olsen explained that Director Brennan was a ‘target’ of the narrower investigation, and the investigation for which he was now being subpoenaed was the ‘more wide-ranging conspiracy,’ as to which our client was a ‘subject.’ However, he explained that the narrower investigation was ‘still viable,’ and that the issues in the narrower investigation might also be part of the larger investigation, such as being overt acts,” Brennan’s lawyer wrote.
The revelations offer the clearest details yet about a prosecutorial approach that appears to follow an outline the FBI began assembling last summer.
After taking charge of the bureau, FBI Director Kash Patel launched an investigation into Democratic Party and deep state conduct involving Russia collusion allegations and Jack Smith’s pursuit of Trump.
Brennan’s conduct at the opening of Crossfire Hurricane is likely to receive particular scrutiny.
He testified to Congress in 2017 that the Intelligence Community had gathered evidence by July 2016 of contacts between Trump campaign figures and the Russian government.
Brennan told lawmakers that the CIA then established a special group with the FBI and NSA to investigate alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
He said the reported contacts raised concerns about whether Russia had obtained cooperation from people involved with the Trump campaign.
Special Counsel John Durham later reported that Brennan had also learned that month about intelligence alleging Hillary Clinton personally approved a plan to create a bogus Russia scandal against Trump.
Brennan briefed President Barack Obama and senior administration officials on that intelligence.
Durham ultimately concluded that the FBI lacked verified intelligence or evidence when it opened Crossfire Hurricane in the summer of 2016.
He also found that the FBI and Justice Department failed to follow their standards while allowing the investigation to continue under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
“Neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation,” Durham wrote.
The CIA, FBI, and NSA later issued a December 2016 assessment concluding with “high confidence” that Russian leader Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign and developed a preference for Trump.
An assessment produced about three months earlier had not mentioned alleged Russian animosity toward Clinton or a preference for Trump.
A 2025 CIA review concluded that including the Steele Dossier in the intelligence assessment violated fundamental tradecraft principles and damaged the credibility of a key judgment.
The review sharply criticized Brennan’s role in seeking to include the dossier authored by former British spy Christopher Steele.
The House Judiciary Committee last year referred Brennan for prosecution over alleged false testimony in 2023 concerning his role with the dossier.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe also sent a criminal referral involving Brennan to the FBI after the agency review.
Brennan continued defending the collusion narrative after leaving the CIA, even calling Trump’s claims of “no collusion” “hogwash.”
After Robert Mueller found no evidence that Trump or his associates colluded with Russia, Brennan acknowledged on MSNBC that he may have suspected more than actually existed.
Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper defended the 2016 assessment again in an opinion piece last year.
Whether those protestations survive the grand conspiracy probe now faces a rather unforgiving test before federal prosecutors and a Florida grand jury.
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