Barr’s Investigation has Brennan and Comey Scrambling

It appears that the newly announced Barr investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation has two people scrambling to place blame on someone else.

Those two people are former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey.

According to Fox News:

A high-level dispute over which senior government officials pushed the unverified Steele dossier amid efforts to surveil the Trump campaign has broken out into the open again, after it emerged that Attorney General William Barr appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if the FBI and DOJ’s actions were “lawful and appropriate.”

Sources familiar with the records told Fox News that a late-2016 email chain indicated then-FBI Director James Comey told bureau subordinates that then-CIA Director John Brennan insisted the dossier be included in the intelligence community assessment on Russian interference, known as the ICA.

Fox News was told that the email chain – not yet public — referred to the dossier as “crown material,” but it was not clear why this apparent code was used. On Tuesday night, former GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy said on Fox News’ “The Story with Martha MacCallum” that “Comey has a better argument than Brennan, based on what I’ve seen.”

“Former Director Brennan, along with former [Director of National Intelligence] James Clapper, are the ones who opposed James Comey’s recommendation that the Steele Dossier be included in the intelligence report,” the official said.

However, Senator Rand Paul has Tweeted in March that a “high-level” source told him Brennan was pushing the unverified Steele dossier as well.
 

The investigation is just getting started but it looks like the anti-Trumpers are getting nervous as to what Barr might find.


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