Thread by @JohnWHuber

CIA Director John Brennan almost certainly told the then Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid about the Steele dossier allegations on Aug 25 2016

And by his own admission Brennan passed that off as “considered intelligence” from “CIA”

Here’s 3 pieces of evidence

THREAD

1) Brennan says he briefed the Gang of 8 about “Russian attempts to interfere in the election” (then including Harry Reid)

IMPORTANT: Brennan says he provided “the same briefing to each gang of eight member”

—John Brennan testimony to HPSCI, May 23 2017: docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG…

2) Brennan says to @chucktodd he told Mitch McConnell in his briefing that what he was passing on was the “consider[ed] view and assessment from CIA”

Since he gave “the same briefing” to Reid as McConnell, logically Brennan said the same thing to Reid about the intelligence

3a) Only two days after Brennan briefed Reid on Aug 25, Reid fires off a letter to FBI Director @Comey on Aug 27

He mentions allegations that @carterwpage (unnamed) “met with high ranking sanctioned individuals while in Moscow in July of 2016”

*That is from the Steele dossier*

Reid letter to Comey: documentcloud.org/documents/3035…

3b) Q: How do you know that the allegation Reid mentions about @carterwpage meeting “sanctioned individuals” is “from the Steele dossier”?

A: Because that allegation wasn’t made public *until weeks later*, on Sep 23 when Yahoo News reported it (with Steele as an unnamed source)

That and the fact that when questioned by Congress about this allegation, Page was repeatedly asked if he met the people the Steele dossier alleged he met, & whether he spoke to them about dropping sanctions for a personal bribe - which is ONLY from the dossier, and nowhere else

So Harry Reid got that “high ranking” @carterwpage allegation from somewhere WEEKS before Yahoo reported it.

And 2 days before he wrote to Comey about it he’d just had a briefing from John Brennan about Russian interference based on “considered intelligence” from “CIA” 🤔

/ENDS

Plus there’s also the fact that Congressional representatives said to Lisa Page they had “documents” suggesting Brennan briefed Reid on the dossier: h/t @themarketswork m.theepochtimes.com/transcripts-of…