Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s recent document dumps expose the determined and persistent campaign of former CIA Director John Brennan to use and abuse his office for the political aim of defeating Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, trying to undermine Trump after he won, and weakening or derailing Trump’s presidency before it even began in 2017. Lying to Congress is just the beginning of Brennan’s malfeasance, and he must be held accountable.

Brennan admitted that he became obsessed with keeping Trump out of the White House in July 2016. He gathered every scrap of information and dirt he could find, regardless of its source or validity, to make the case that Russian President Vladimir Putin was determined to help Trump win the 2016 election. By September 2016, two months after WikiLeaks published hacked Democratic National Committee emails, Brennan was already on Capitol Hill, selling his Russiagate narrative to lawmakers. Republicans were rightly suspicious of the CIA director’s obviously partisan efforts to use the intelligence community to undercut the Republican nominee’s campaign.