Ex-CIA Director John Brennan got right in the face of a man who confronted him for signing the 2020 letter claiming a report about Hunter Biden’s laptop and emails was nothing more than Russian misinformation.
Brennan, in the video posted on X by Thomas Speciale — a former senior US intelligence professional who unsuccessfully ran as a Republican for the Senate in Virginia in 2020 — can be seen moving within inches of Speciale’s mug as the two argue about the letter, which was signed by 51 former intelligence officials. Speciale shared the clip on Saturday, from a conference Brennan spoke at on Thursday at George Mason University.
“You misrepresented that!” Brennan said, as he poked Speciale in the chest. “We never said it was disinformation, we said it was Russian influence operations, which is what they do.”
That was a trivial remark from Brennan, though, considering the letter said Biden’s emails had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
He could then be seen saying there was a “big difference” between a “Russian influence operation” and calling it “disinformation.” Brennan then protested “no, you don’t know that!” when Speciale told him former FBI boss James Comey “knew” about the letter being false.
Brennan then started waving him off and walked away.
The letter — which was signed by several other former CIA directors — cast doubt on an October 2020 report from the New York Post that then-candidate Joe Biden (D) was closely tied to his son’s business deals in Ukraine. Joe Biden, as vice president, “pressured” government officials to fire an executive at an energy firm, the NYP report said.
The NYP report was censored by tech companies like Twitter and questioned by many in the media leading into the 2020 election; the report was correct, though, and was later used in a court case against Hunter Biden.
Last month, The House Judiciary Committee referred Brennan to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution for making “numerous willfully and intentionally false statements” to Congress.
That move put another rival of President Donald Trump in danger of being prosecuted, along with Comey, New York City Attorney General Letitia James, and former National Security Advisor John Bolton — have also been indicted.
Brennan, according to the Judiciary Committee, lied several times when testifying before the Judiciary Committee in May 2023. That included saying he was “not involved in analyzing” the Steele Dossier “at all,” and that he had not seen the dossier until after the 2016 election.
Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) said that is false, and that the CIA was not only involved in pushing for the unfounded dossier claims to be included in a 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), but that Brennan overrode objections from other CIA officials about it.
Watch the confrontation above, via Speciale’s X post.
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