The Justice Department has requested House Intelligence Committee records related to former CIA Director John Brennan, a frequent target of President Donald Trump, according to two sources familiar with the request.
The Intelligence Committee voted Tuesday night to send to the Justice Department several classified hearing transcripts related to Brennan, according to a source familiar with the panel’s actions. The vote came at the request of the Justice Department, the two sources said.
A spokesperson for Republicans on the committee said in a statement that the panel “voted to report out classified hearing transcripts at the request of the U.S. Department of Justice for an ongoing investigation related to the 2017″ report by GOP members of the committee, “which was declassified and released last year, and other topics related to the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.”
The spokesperson said the committee hopes the action “may advance the accountability process that many Americans are desperate to
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