Brennan nervously replied, “Putting together an internal strike force to take a look at this information is certainly understandable, but I also like to think that the professionals at the Department of Justice will dismiss any of these [criminal] referrals because they are baseless because they really are. So, I stand ready to talk about the assessment and what we did during that period of time.”
“There was absolutely no conspiracy and we continue to stand behind what we said publicly,” Brennan said.
MSNBC asked Brennan on Thursday if he’s “worried” that he will be punished for his role in the Russiagate after the DOJ created a ‘strike force’ to investigate the coup plotters.
“Well, I guess they’re going to what they’re going to do,” Brennan said. “I just feel as though what we did was right. It was legitimate. It was based on our authorities and responsibilities. We would have been derelict if we didn’t do these things.”
To be clear, Brennan is arguing that the intel community would have been ‘derelict’ if they didn’t take Hillary Clinton’s phony Russia dossier and open an investigation into then-candidate Donald Trump and then continue to spy on him while he was US President.
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