Comey and Brennan under investigation by the Ministry of Justice under Trump
Comey and Brennan under investigation by the Ministry of Justice under Trump
The FBI examines the former CIA director John Brennan and former FBI director James Comey for possible false statements before the congress. This was done on the basis of a recommendation by the current CIA director John Ratcliffe, as an informed source reports.
background of the investigation
The recommendation was made after Ratcliffe a review published, which criticized the assessment of the US secret services of 2016. This assessment was heavily attacked by President Donald Trump and his allies and had shown that Russian President Vladimir Putin had tried to intervene in favor of Trump. In a contribution to X (formerly Twitter) Ratcliffe said that the new review showed that the original assessment "was carried out by an atypical and corrupt process under the politically highly stressed conditions of ex-director Brennan and ex-director Comey."
Details for examination
The Ratcliffe review did not question that the secret services came to the conclusion that Putin Trump preferred Hillary Clinton. However, she argued that the leadership of the agencies had rushed the process and Brennan “endangered the analytical debate” by “signaling that the agencies managed to achieve a consensus before the ICA was coordinated.” Comey was not mentioned in the review.
ambiguities about the scope of the investigation
It is unclear whether the FBI examination, which is first of fox news was reported that the provisional phase has gone. A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice announced: "We do not comment on ongoing investigations."
reactions to the determination
The CIA refused to comment, and the representatives of Comey and Brennan also rejected statements. On Wednesday, Trump said to reporters in the White House that he was not informed of the alleged investigation against Brennan and Comey, but repeated his accusation that these were "very dishonest".
core of the controversy
The statements of both men are centrally given in the dispute before the congress about the examination of the Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election as well as the decision to check the claims in a dossier of the former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. This was financed by the Clinton campaign and claimed a coordination between the Russian government and people who were connected to the Trump campaign. The CIA report from last month also argued that Brennan restricted access to important intelligence information and "showed a preference for narrative consistency towards analytical validity", as internal objections, including information from the dossier.Brennans memoirs and the dossier debate
in his memoirs, Brennan said that he spoke out against the inclusion of information from the Steele dossier in an information document that President Barack Obama was to be presented. Instead, the officials decided to summarize the allegations of the dossier to the information document.
previous investigations and effects
The FBI's criminal investigation into the connections of the Trump campaign to Russia began in 2016 and extended until Trump's first term. It was examined both by the Ministry of Justice Inspector and by the special investigator John Durham, who was commissioned by Attorney General Bill Barr, the procedure for the intelligence information that led to the Trump Russia examination. The Durham examination ended without the determination of misconduct in dealing with the secret service information, but concluded the indictment against three people, including a former FBI lawyer who was guilty of submitting incorrect information in an monitoring application as an employee of the Trump campaign.
Comey and the social media controversy
Comey was already the focus in former administration controversy and was invited to an interview with the Secret Service in May after posting a political message on social media. The former FBI director was interviewed by agents who examined a photo that he had posted on Thursday on social media and wrote on the shell in the sand "86 47", which became a popular code on social media for removing Trump from the presidential office.
This report was partially supported by CNN reporter Holmes Lybrand.
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