Calls for criminal prosecution of former CIA Director John Brennan are intensifying following a bombshell report alleging his deep involvement in advancing the 2016 Russiagate hoax

Former CIA officer Bryan Dean Wright has accused Brennan of deliberately manipulating the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), which was compiled in response to claims that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign colluded with Russian operatives to sway the election.

Wright claims that Brennan, while serving as CIA director, pushed to include the discredited Steele dossier in the agency’s assessment. Even more damning, he alleges that Brennan was a key figure in leaking the dossier to the media in the lead-up to the 2016 election.

Brennan, a former CIA officer, retired in 2017 after serving under President Barack Obama. As part of an elite group of intelligence officials, he was tasked by Obama with determining whether Russia had interfered in the 2016 election. However, a special counsel concluded in 2023 that any alleged Russian interference was unrelated to Donald Trump’s campaign.

Wright argued that both Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey—who worked closely with the CIA during the Russiagate investigation—should face criminal prosecution. It follows closely on the heels of another bombshell from current CIA Director John Ratcliffe, who last week released a report titled “Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russian Election Interference.” The report directly implicates his predecessor, Brennan, in the growing scandal.

Passages in Ratcliffe’s report describe “excessively involved” Obama appointees participating in early drafts of the first document, which was rushed to completion in a “chaotic” and “atypical” process that he calls “markedly unconventional.”