Prosecutors in Florida moved to issue subpoenas to former CIA Director John Brennan and other former officials as the Justice Department investigates the federal government’s counterintelligence investigation into Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign and its contacts with Russians, sources told CNN.
The subpoenas are likely to fuel right-wing clamoring to investigate the investigators again — after special counsel John Durham and the Justice inspector general previously probed the FBI’s work on the 2016 investigation known as “Crossfire Hurricane.”
Subpoenas were scheduled to be sent to several people at intelligence agencies including the FBI and CIA who had worked on an Intelligence Community Assessment in 2017 that summarized counterintelligence on Russian attempts to interfere in the presidential election.
Former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were among those who received subpoenas, sources said.
The new investigative demands, from the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida, seek documents from July 2016 through February 2017.
The possible targets of the investigation aren’t clear from the subpoenas themselves, nor are the possible theories of criminal law Trump administration prosecutors may want to examine with a grand jury almost a decade after the records were created.
CNN has requested comment from Brennan’s lawyer, as well as lawyers for Strzok and Page.
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