{"id":26117,"date":"2025-07-08T13:50:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=26117"},"modified":"2025-07-08T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:50:25","slug":"ex-cia-chief-john-brennan-could-face-russiagate-perjury-probe-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=26117","title":{"rendered":"<h2>Ex-CIA chief John Brennan could face Russiagate \u2018perjury\u2019 probe \u2013 media<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26118\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-08-at-8.59.15\u202fAM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-08-at-8.59.15\u202fAM.png 507w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-08-at-8.59.15\u202fAM-259x300.png 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__cover article__cover-left\">\n<div class=\"media \"><picture><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__item lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2025.07\/xxs\/686bc8fb20302722272c436a.jpg\" sizes=\"447px\" alt=\"Ex-CIA chief could face Russiagate \u2018perjury\u2019 probe \u2013 media\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2025.07\/xxs\/686bc8fb20302722272c436a.jpg\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__footer media__footer_bottom \">\n<h5 class=\"media__title media__title_arcticle\"><span data-role=\"title\">Former CIA Director John Brennan on Capitol Hill,<br \/>\nMay 23, 2017.\u00a0<\/span><span data-role=\"copyright-symbol\">\u00a9\u00a0<\/span><span data-role=\"copyright\"> Alex Wong \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>Former CIA Director John Brennan could face a perjury probe over his role in the 2016\u00a0<em>\u201cRussiagate\u201d<\/em>\u00a0conspiracy, which claimed Moscow worked to undermine Hilary Clinton\u2019s unsuccessful presidential campaign in favor of Donald Trump, according to US media.<\/p>\n<p>The current chief of the US spy agency, John Ratcliffe, has claimed that senior security officials manipulated aspects of the investigation, which was commissioned by then-President Barack Obama in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Republican critics have long maintained that the final document was politically motivated and intended to damage Trump\u2019s first presidency. Moscow has denied interfering in the US electoral process or\u00a0<em>\u201ccolluding\u201d<\/em>\u00a0with Trump\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Ratcliffe declassified an internal CIA\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/static\/Tradecraft-Review-2016-ICA-on-Election-Interference-062625.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">review<\/a> of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), which some media outlets claim proves that Brennan lied under oath during a closed-door congressional hearing in 2017. Allegations of this nature have circulated for years.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/621130-brennan-russiagate-perjury-congress\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/621130-brennan-russiagate-perjury-congress\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}