Rand Paul: ‘A high-level source tells me it was Brennan who insisted’ on dossier. Ex-CIA chief under new scrutiny.
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Former CIA Director John Brennan is under scrutiny by Republicans who are turning their attention to his claims now that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has ended.
Claims Brennan made to Congress about contacts between Russians and the Trump campaign, though recently saying he had been given “bad information,” have raised questions from Republicans about his role in the collusion narrative.
Sen. Rand Paul is calling on Brennan to testify after he alleged in a bombshell tweet that a “high-level source” told him the former CIA director pressed to have the infamous Steele dossier included in a January 2017 intelligence summary.
BREAKING: A high-level source tells me it was Brennan who insisted that the unverified and fake Steele dossier be included in the Intelligence Report… Brennan should be asked to testify under oath in Congress ASAP.
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 27, 2019
“My source tells me that the intelligence community, Obama’s intelligence community Brennan, Clapper, Comey, they were frustrated because they had this Russian dossier but nobody believed it was real… they couldn’t get anything out of it,” the Kentucky Republican said on “Fox & Friends” Thursday.
Paul also implicated former President Obama in his claims about the dossier.
“I believe at that time they did talk to President Obama about it. I think they all should be asked ‘when did President Obama learn about this, what was his recommendation? He is in charge of the government. Did he recommend that you try to spread the dossier throughout the government?’”