Former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are among the individuals reportedly served with federal subpoenas on Friday related to the Department of Justice’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia inquiry and alleged intelligence abuses under the Obama administration.
Brennan, Strzok, and Page were the three former high-ranking officials who were subpoenaed, Fox News reported, based on law enforcement sources. The news outlet also reported that the Trump administration plans to issue as many as 30 subpoenas related to the investigation in the coming days.
A grand jury in the Southern District of Florida handed down the subpoenas.
An official with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida did not respond to a request for comment, and a representative for the DOJ did not return a request for comment.
Brennan is among the Obama-era officials to have played a role in peddling the allegation that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election, which made its way into the intelligence community’s 2017 assessment on the alleged Russian collusion, thanks to Brennan.
A separate review by CIA Director John Ratcliffe supported that finding, alleging Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey fought to include unverified opposition research from the Clinton-funded Steele dossier in official intelligence assessments.
Ratcliffe recently referred evidence of Brennan’s wrongdoing to FBI Director Kash Patel for potential prosecution, according to Fox.
The renewed scrutiny facing Brennan comes over two weeks after House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to refer Brennan for criminal prosecution. Jordan alleged that the former CIA director lied to Congress about the agency’s involvement with the Steele dossier.
It remains unclear whether the subpoenas extend beyond his alleged false statements to Congress.
Meanwhile, Strzok and Page were assigned in 2017 to work on then-Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s team, tasked with investigating the Russia collusion narrative. Strzok served as the FBI’s Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence at the time, and Page worked as an FBI lawyer.
Both came under fire in 2018 when their anti-Trump text messages were uncovered by former DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, demonstrating their bias during the Mueller investigation. Page resigned that year, and Strzok was fired months later. The two were involved in an extramarital affair.
In recent weeks, Trump’s DOJ has indicted Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and former Trump national security adviser John Bolton. The charges have garnered criticism that the president is targeting officials perceived to be his political opponents as Brennan and others may be next.
