DOJ Taps Trump Ally diGenova for Brennan Probe
“In sum, Brennan’s testimony before the Committee… was a brazen attempt to knowingly and willfully testify falsely and fictitiously to material facts.”
The Justice Department has tapped former Trump attorney Joseph diGenova to spearhead its criminal probe into ex-CIA Director John Brennan over the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, placing a seasoned advocate who has long accused Brennan of misconduct in direct control of the investigation.
DiGenova, a former U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., who represented President Donald Trump during special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, will serve as counselor to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche while working out of the Southern District of Florida, where a federal grand jury has been impaneled since late last year. He has previously accused Brennan of colluding with the FBI and Justice Department to frame Trump, allegations that date back to the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.
The appointment follows the removal of Maria Medetis Long, the lead career prosecutor on the case, who conveyed doubt that there was sufficient evidence for a criminal prosecution, according to reports. The Justice Department did not dispute her departure.
A Justice Department spokesperson said: “As a matter of routine practice, attorneys are moved around on cases so offices can most effectively allocate resources. It is completely healthy and normal to change members of legal teams.”
Long had been overseeing a broad inquiry that included a false statements probe connected to Brennan, allegations tied to intelligence assessments of Russian interference in the 2016 election, and broader conspiracy-related investigations. Investigators have issued a flurry of subpoenas and continued pursuing witness interviews in recent months.
The probe stems from a referral by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, who charged that Brennan knowingly lied to Congress about his role in crafting the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment, the now-disputed document that advanced the narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to benefit Trump.
At the center of Jordan’s referral is Brennan’s own testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, in which he claimed: “The CIA was very much opposed to having any reference or inclusion of the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment.”
According to a 2020 House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence report declassified late last year, Brennan not only supported including the dossier, a collection of salacious, unverified allegations against Trump funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign law firm, but overrode the objections of senior CIA officers who argued it failed to meet basic tradecraft standards.
“In sum, Brennan’s testimony before the Committee on May 11, 2023, was a brazen attempt to knowingly and willfully testify falsely and fictitiously to material facts,” Jordan wrote in his referral to the Justice Department.
Brennan has continued to deny wrongdoing, maintaining his defense of the intelligence assessment even after the declassified documents undermined his account.
The leadership shift follows recent personnel changes at the Justice Department, including the attorney general’s replacement earlier this month. Acting Attorney General Blanche took over after Trump replaced Pam Bondi as attorney general earlier this month amid frustration over the pace of criminal investigations into political opponents. Blanche has said Trump has the right and duty to be involved in seeking investigations against people he has had “issues with.”
With diGenova now at the helm, federal investigators are expected to press forward. For the first time, the man leading the charge has spent years publicly arguing that Brennan belongs behind bars.
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Good move.
Joe will disappoint!
Get some of dem dere aliens to give him an anal probe.
Acting AG Todd Blanche is moving Joe DiGenova and Christopher-James DeLorenz into positions in South Florida to assist U.S. Attorney Jason Quiñones in ongoing investigation of the Donald Trump targeting. The venue puts any grand jury information in the court orbit of Judge Aileen Cannon.
“Before getting into the substance, the alignment here is critical to understand. Judge Cannon saw firsthand exactly what the Lawfare constructs consist of when she had the Jack Smith operation in her court during the Mar-a-Lago documents case. Judge Cannon knows the context of weaponized justice and saw the techniques through first-hand experience. This cannot be emphasized enough.”
Via: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/19/aag-todd-blanche-moves-digenova-and-delorenz-to-south-florida-group-assisting-usao-jason-reding-quinones/
So turn around is fair play, Not just the democrats can do court shopping,
Putting those presidential records in Mar-a-Lago was a smart move, if Trump had maintained his residence in NYC and kept the documents there, it would’ve been be far less likely to no chance whatsoever of any meaningful prosecution in this case.
Some have commented that this is more evidence of the disorganized, disjointed effort into prosecuting the deep state. And another sign of the overall disorganization of the 47 Admin. Not to introduce copium into the conversation, but I find it extremely hard to believe DiGenova hasn’t been following and read into this case (and it’s many other offshoots and origination cases) and isn’t/hasn’t been prepared to step in since the beginning. I’d be surprised if he didn’t help shape the case from it’s early days.
Does Attorney DiGenova eat broken glass for breakfast and wash it down with straight Kentucky bourbon?
Because I’m getting tired of “here’s the guy who will prosecute the deep state criminals” only to discover that he’s just another timid deer munching on grass at the edge of the field. Oops! I scared him! There he goes!
The list of people who need to be permanently confined to a 6’ x 9’ concrete box high in the mountains of Colorado is long enough to require a new prison.
And we can’t even cut off their pensions.
I listen to Joe on WMAL radio opine for the last several years about the deep state and the Russia collusion hoax, he talks tough, just as Dan Bongino did in his radio days, so I am not putting any faith in Joe to be any better than Dan
By inclination he’s a good choice as a hatchet man to vigorously prosecute the DC denizens and Acela elites who engaged in ‘resistance/sabotage’ antics, far more so than typical DoJ functionaries. The real question is will he actually do so when it counts, when its not a hypothetical, and that’s something we won’t know for a bit.
There are quite a number of deep state hacks and Biden former administration officials, officials of several administrations for that matter, who deserve time behind bars. None will ever see the inside of a cell.
agree
while top guys like bannon and navarro did go to prison
the equivalent from the traitors are safe and sound in their dnc cacoons
We are tired of PROBES and committee hearings that do not result in perp walks, arrests and convictions.
Republicans are gutless.
Take Brennan’s freedom, pension and reputation, not necessarily in that order.
There has to be a word for colluding with the very entities you “allege” (read it: lie about) PRESIDENT Trump was in league with. What could it be? Does it begin with a “T” or an “S” or both?
eventually the *game* of politics/politicking seems to win out over the few that are actually dedicated to destroying it
b/c the american people who are for destroying that game dont quite have or are willing to do what it takes to destroy it
trump cant do it alone
and we saw how the blmplo were able to gain huge power with their actions
while the idea of jan 6 was earth shattering it was more like a frat party that got out of hand and revealed the weaknesses
Give Joe a chance. He seems like the right person, but his age/energy might hinder him fighting a dragon like Brennan.
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