The House Intelligence Committee voted Tuesday to send classified records tied to former CIA Director John Brennan to the Justice Department.
The transfer is one of the clearest public signs yet that the investigation into Brennan remains active.
The case traces to an Oct. 21, 2025, criminal referral from House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to Attorney General Pam Bondi.
In that letter, Jordan alleged Brennan knowingly made false statements during a May 11, 2023, transcribed interview before the Judiciary Committee.
Jordan said Brennan's testimony conflicted with declassified material on the handling of the Steele dossier and the January 2017 intelligence community assessment of Russian election interference.
Brennan denied wrongdoing, saying in a July 2025 MSNBC interview that he knew "nothing" about the reported investigation and that it was "politically based," Reuters reported.
The Associated Press reported in December that Brennan's lawyers said prosecutors had told him he was a target of a grand jury investigation in the Southern District of Florida.
The Washington Examiner reported Wednesday that Brennan's attorneys said the same in a December letter and that U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quinones is overseeing the inquiry.
AP separately reported in July 2025 that the Justice Department had acknowledged investigations involving Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey.
The intelligence assessment at the center of the Brennan dispute has already been reviewed by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which backed its core conclusions in bipartisan findings.
In a bipartisan 2020 report, the Senate Intelligence Committee said it found no reason to dispute the intelligence community's conclusions that Russia interfered in the 2016 election and that analysts were under no political pressure to reach those findings.
The committee also said Christopher Steele's material was not included in the body of the assessment or used to support its analytic judgments, though a summary was included in an annex largely at the insistence of senior FBI leadership.
As of Wednesday, the public record supports the narrower point that prosecutors appear to be examining whether Brennan's later congressional testimony was false rather than reopening the full Russia investigation.
With the vote, the House Intelligence Committee authorized the transfer of additional classified Brennan-related records to the Justice Department, but prosecutors have not publicly filed charges or announced an indictment.
The records are not expected to be released publicly.
Jim Thomas ✉
Jim Thomas is a writer based in Indiana. He holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science, a law degree from U.I.C. Law School, and has practiced law for more than 20 years.
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