In a dramatic reversal of fortunes, former CIA Director John Brennan, once a pillar of the Obama administration’s national security apparatus, finds himself ensnared in the machinery of accountability he long helped to wield. On October 21, 2025, the House Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Jim Jordan, formally referred Brennan to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution, accusing him of knowingly making false statements to Congress during a 2023 transcribed interview. The allegations center on Brennan’s repeated denials of the CIA’s reliance on the discredited Steele dossier—a Clinton-funded compilation of unverified opposition research—in shaping the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that fueled the Russia collusion narrative against then-President-elect Donald Trump. Declassified documents from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard reveal Brennan overrode objections from senior CIA analysts to insert dossier material, contradicting his sworn testimony that the agency was “not involved at all” with the document and “very much opposed” to its inclusion. This referral, detailed in a scathing letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, marks not just a legal peril but a poetic irony: the man who helped orchestrate intelligence operations now faces charges under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 for undermining congressional oversight, with evidence painting a pattern of deception dating back to 2017 hearings.

The worm has turned decisively, courtesy of a torrent of declassifications that have ripped the veil from the Russia hoax, vindicating Trump and laying bare what White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called a “seditious conspiracy” orchestrated by Barack Obama and his inner circle. Nearly a decade after the 2016 election, Gabbard’s July 2025 release of a 2020 House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence report—bolstered by emails, memos, and timelines—exposes how Obama directed the fabrication of the ICA to falsely claim Russian President Vladimir Putin favored Trump, ignoring intelligence that Moscow anticipated a Clinton win and aimed only to sow discord, not sway votes. Leavitt’s briefing bombshell underscored the premeditated sabotage: while publicly feigning a peaceful transition, Obama convened top aides—including Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice, and James Comey—to weaponize agencies against the incoming administration, manufacturing a hoax that diverted from genuine threats and deceived the electorate. This wasn’t mere policy disagreement; it was, as Leavitt declared, a “years-long coup” to delegitimize the voters’ choice, with Brennan at the epicenter, pushing bogus assessments that echoed the Steele dossier’s whispers despite internal rebukes.

As the documents flood into the light, the sprawling web of the “Swamp syndicate” unravels, implicating a rogue’s gallery from Hillary Clinton and Loretta Lynch to Robert Mueller and Adam Schiff in a bid to shield the Deep State from electoral reckoning. Brennan’s referral is the harbinger; with the DOJ now probing potential perjury and seditious acts, the same voices that once thundered “democracy dies in darkness” stand exposed as its architects—traitors to the Republic they professed to defend. Obama’s 2020 maneuvers to bury the evidence, including shielding allies from Durham’s scrutiny, have crumbled under Trump’s declassification mandate, transforming suppressed truths into indictable offenses. The storm, once dismissed as conspiracy, now rages: Brennan’s fall signals no mercy for the plotters who attacked not just Trump, but the constitutional order itself, forcing a reckoning where compromise yields to justice for all who subverted the people’s will.