GOP shows little appetite for relitigating John Brennan’s Russiagate claims

There is limited desire among Republicans on Capitol Hill to haul Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan back in front of lawmakers, despite accusations that he may have lied to Congress about statements related to 2016 Russian election meddling.

A years-old House Intelligence Committee report now available to the public appears to contradict statements made to Congress by Brennan in 2017, a document that was recently declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard as part of a broader document dump she claims is evidence of a “treasonous conspiracy” by Obama officials to undermine Trump in 2016.

However, Republicans on Congress’s Intelligence Committees suggest they have more pressing matters than nearly a decade-old testimony outside the statute of limitations for lying to lawmakers and that the Department

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