This is the second of a three-part series on reports that Trump CIA Director John Ratcliffe has referred two Obama-era officials — John Brennan and James Comey, then directors of the CIA and FBI, respectively — for criminal investigation. To understand what the referral is about, and why it is a political gambit rather than a viable prosecutorial exercise, we need to go back to the so-called Russiagate scandal that beleaguered the first Trump administration. Here is part 1.
John Brennan, then director of the CIA, was indeed one of the prime movers on the government side of what should have been the real 2016 collusion scandal: the Clinton campaign’s collaboration with the Obama administration to slander Donald Trump as a Russian mole.
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