Trump's quest for vengeance against John Brennan [View all]
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Source: Politico
resident Donald Trumps obsession with former CIA director John Brennan could be on a collision course with an ongoing Justice Department probe as Attorney General Bill Barr takes a more hands-on approach to examining the intelligence communitys actions in 2016.
Barr has been meeting with the U.S. closest foreign intelligence allies in recent months, making repeated overseas trips as part of an investigation he is overseeing into the origins of the Russia probe and whether any inappropriate spying occurred on Trumps campaign.
As part of that investigation, Barr and John Durham, the federal prosecutor he appointed to conduct it, have been probing a conspiracy theory for which there is little if any evidence, according to several people with knowledge of the matter: that a key player in the Russia probe, a professor named Joseph Mifsud, was actually a Western intelligence asset sent to discredit the Trump campaign and that the CIA, under Brennan, was somehow involved.
Trump, meanwhile, has become obsessed with Brennan, who frequently gets under the presidents skin by publicly questioning his mental acuity and fitness for office, according to a former White House official. On Brennan, it was always, hes an idiot, hes a crook, we ought to investigate him, this person said, characterizing Trumps outbursts.
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