Former CIA Director John Brennan is the subject of a criminal referral to the Justice Department, with House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) writing to the agency Tuesday to argue Brennan should face charges for lying to Congress.

The criminal referral centers on testimony Brennan gave to Congress in 2023, and argues that Brennan's comments about the CIA’s role in investigating the 2016 election run afoul of information gathered by House Intelligence Committee Republicans.

The letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi largely accuses Brennan of lying about the role the Steele dossier played in intelligence community reviews of the 2016 election and Russian interference. The dossier has since been largely discredited.

The 2017 House Republican report Jordan’s........

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