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As Decision on Comey Charges Looms, Brennan Investigation Stalls

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Former CIA director John Brennan speaks during a forum on election security titled “2020 Vision: Intelligence and the U.S. Presidential Election” at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., October 30, 2019.

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Earlier today, we published my post on the Trump Justice Department’s reportedly stepped-up effort to indict the president’s nemesis, former FBI Director James Comey. Meanwhile the New York Times reports that the DOJ’s probe of another Trump political enemy, former CIA Director John Brennan, has stalled.

I wrote about the Brennan investigation back in July, an installment of a three-part “Russiagate Revisited” series that added a fourth part when Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s national intelligence director, disclosed some long-withheld Russiagate documents. (To repeat what I said at the time, Gabbard’s disclosures were useful in filling some gaps, but they did not change the trajectory of the Trump-Russia “collusion” fiasco, about which I wrote Ball of Collusion several years ago.)

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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