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UPDATED 11:10 AM PT — Monday, Dec. 24, 2018
James Comey’s closed-door testimony is showing a direct contradiction to claims made by his predecessor John Brennan.
In his testimony Comey said the dossier was used in an intelligence community assessment in January of 2017.
The dossier was a piece of opposition research funded by the president’s opponents, including the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign.
Former FBI Director James Comey speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill Washington, Monday, Dec. 17, 2018, after a second closed-door interview with two Republican-led committees investigating what they say was bias at the Justice Department before the 2016 presidential election. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Comey’s statement directly goes against what Brennan told the House Intelligence committee in May of 2017.
Brennan claimed the dossier was not in any way used as the basis for the assessment into the report, which is a claim he has repeated to the mainstream media.
“It became a hot topic of debate within CINSA and FBI and DNI…about whether or not to take that dossier into account when the intelligence community assessment was done,” stated Brennan. “We decided no, because there was no way we could substantiate it, it wasn’t an intelligence document, so it was appended to it, but it was not taken into account at all as that intelligence community assessment was done and was completed.”
Meanwhile, former National Intelligence Director James Clapper and former National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers have both rebuked Brennan’s statements on the dossier as well.
