Report: Former CIA Chief Brennan Asked Allies to Spy on More Than Two Dozen Trump Associates

True to his communist colors during the Obama administration, former CIA Director John Brennan used foreign intelligence to spy on then GOP candidate Donald Trump during his 2016 campaign, a new report says.

The report from Public and Racket alleges that Brennan, meaning the Obama administration, involved the “Five Eyes” nations in a conspiracy to destroy Trump and in fact launched the Russian Collusion Hoax that failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton paid handsomely to spread.

If true, Brennan not only committed espionage but also, arguably, high treason.

The Report

Twitter Files experts Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag of Public, and Matt Taibbi of Racket, two Substack publications, report that the FBI probe into Trump’s “collusion” with Russia originated with Brennan and the CIA. The hoax was largely built on the phony Steele Dossier hoked up by Clinton and her gang.

Brennan asked the foreign members of the Five Eyes — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom — to spy on Trump and his underlings.

The FBI “should never have opened” the probe in July 2016, the authors write:

Now, multiple credible sources tell Public and Racket that the United States Intelligence Community (IC), including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), illegally mobilized foreign intelligence agencies to target Trump advisors long before the summer of 2016.

The new information fills many gaps in our understanding of the Russia collusion hoax and is supported by testimony already in the public record.

Until now, the official story has been that the FBI’s investigation began after Australian intelligence officials told US officials that a Trump aide had boasted to an Australian diplomat that Russia had damning material about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

In fact, though, U.S. intelligence agencies importuned American allies to spy on Trump and his people, then feed the information back to the United States. “Sources close to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HSPCI) investigation” spilled the beans to the writers. 

The nefarious Brennan was the chief conspirator. He fingered the Trump people for the Five Eyes:

After Public and Racket had been told that President Barack Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan, had identified 26 Trump associates for the Five Eyes to target, a source confirmed that the IC had “identified [them] as people to ‘bump,’ or make contact with or manipulate. They were targets of our own IC and law enforcement — targets for collection and misinformation.”

Unknown details about the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign and raw intelligence related to the IC’s surveillance of the Trump campaign are in a 10-inch binder that Trump ordered to be declassified at the very end of his term, sources told Public and Racket.

If the top-secret documents exist proving these charges, they are potentially proof that multiple US intelligence officials broke laws against spying and election interference.

The Collusion Hoax

If true, the report again confirms that the Obama administration knew that the Clinton campaign conceived the hoax, but adds a new twist: Obama’s CIA chief, Brennan, not only collaborated in the operation to bring down Trump but also persuaded foreign intelligence agencies to do so.

In 2020, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe disclosed Brennan’s handwritten notes that proved Obama knew that Clinton originated the hoax.

“In late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee,” Ratcliffe wrote.

Of Brennan’s handwritten notes, Ratcliffe wrote:

According to his handwritten notes, former Central Intelligence Agency Director Brennan subsequently briefed President Obama and other senior national security officials on the intelligence, including the “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.”

In his probe of the hoax co-conspirator Michael Sussman, Special Counsel John Durham showed that Clinton was involved up to her elbows. Validating Brennan’s notes, a former campaign official testified that Clinton personally OK’d the scheme to manufacture the lie that Trump was linked to a Russian bank. Her campaign paid a fortune to create the infamous Steele Dossier, itself based on lies from a Russian agent. FBI officials involved in the collusion probe, called Crossfire Hurricane, hid that information from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court when they sought permission to wiretap Trump aide Carter Page.

Brennan voted for Communist Party presidential candidate Gus Hall in 1976.