Former CIA Director John Brennan had a pithy response to House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) in response to him recommending to the Department of Justice (DOJ) that Brennan be prosecuted.

Earlier this week, Jordan called on the DOJ to indict Brennan for allegedly lying to Congress. Jordan told Attorney General Pam Bondi that Brennan "knowingly made false statements during his transcribed interview" in May of 2023 with the House panel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. Jordan specifically accused Brennan of lying about the CIA not being involved in the compiling of the "Steele dossier," which is a series of memos written by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele about President Donald Trump's alleged dealings with Russia.

In a Wednesday segment with MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, Brennan likened Jordan's criminal referral to the Ohio Republican simply wanting to "get into the action of Trump's revenge tour," and called the accusation of lying to Congress "fallacious."

"I have cooperated with all ofthese inquiries andinvestigations of thegovernment. I have explainedexactly what transpired duringthe Russian interference in2016 election," Brennan said. "And Jim Jordan now, I think is trying to twist my words and misrepresent andmischaracterize the facts as away to play to and be asupplicant to Donald Trump,which is why he's making thisreferral now to the Departmentof Justice."

"This ground has beenretread and plowed numeroustimes, and I even wrote aboutit in my memoir exactly what happened there," he continued. "Why, oh, whywould I have any motivation tonot tell the truth to Congressabout this? Because it'salready a matter of publicrecord."

Wallace reminded viewers that Brennan had already been "investigated by some of the closest allies to to Donald Trump," including Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio, when he represented Florida in the U.S. Senate. Brennan added that he also sat down for multiple hours of interviews with former DOJ special counsel John Durham, who former Attorney General William Barr appointed to head an investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.

"Again, goingthrough all of this, trying tomake sure that they understoodclearly," Brennan said. "But clearly, Jim Jordan wants to be able tosatisfy Donald Trump in termsof going after Donald Trump'scritics, which I am one of. AndI have been outspoken when Isee that Donald Trump is doingthings wrong. So again, it'sit's as unsurprising as it isludicrous in terms of thisreferral that he's made to the Department of Justice."

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