Federal prosecutors just dropped a bombshell by subpoenaing former CIA Director John Brennan, ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok, and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page in a high-stakes investigation that’s peeling back the curtain on the Trump-Russia probe’s murky origins.
The Daily Caller reported that this escalating Justice Department inquiry, driven by U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones, is digging into alleged misconduct by intelligence officials surrounding the 2016 election aftermath, with a federal grand jury issuing subpoenas to these key figures on Thursday.
Let’s rewind to July 18, 2025, when Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard unleashed a trove of documents and a memo that she claimed exposed a calculated effort to undermine President Donald Trump after his victory that year.
Gabbard didn’t mince words, calling it a “years-long coup” against Trump, suggesting a coordinated push within federal agencies to sabotage his presidency from day one.
Her released files point fingers at Strzok, alleging he was at the heart of pushing unfounded Trump-Russia collusion claims, even stepping in to prevent the FBI from closing its case on Trump’s first national security adviser, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
Meanwhile, Lisa Page’s 2018 congressional testimony revealed that, at the time Robert Mueller took over as special counsel, investigators had little to show in terms of hard evidence linking Trump’s campaign to Russian interference—hardly the smoking gun some hoped for.
Fast forward to Thursday, and the plot thickens as Fox News reported that a federal grand jury in South Florida issued subpoenas to Brennan, Strzok, and Page, with whispers of up to 30 more subpoenas potentially on the horizon in the coming days.
As Fox News host Bret Baier put it, “Fox News Digital is now reporting a federal grand jury has subpoenaed former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, as well as others.”
Baier’s report underscores that this is all tied to the Justice Department’s relentless pursuit of answers about how the Trump-Russia investigation was launched—a probe many conservatives see as a politically motivated witch hunt from the get-go.
Adding fuel to the fire, Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan referred Brennan to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution in October, accusing him of fibbing during 2023 congressional testimony about the CIA’s reliance on the now-discredited Steele dossier.
Jordan claims Brennan personally greenlit the dossier’s inclusion in the post-2016 Intelligence Community Assessment, despite pushback from senior CIA officials, and then denied it under oath—a contradiction backed by declassified records.
Pair that with evidence suggesting Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey teamed up to embed the dossier in that assessment, and you’ve got a recipe for serious scrutiny, especially with Comey himself facing trial in January.
Thursday’s subpoenas mark a significant ramp-up in this investigation, with prosecutors in Miami and Washington, D.C., gearing up to present evidence against Brennan to a grand jury, though no indictment has been filed yet.
For many on the right, this probe isn’t just about accountability—it’s about exposing what they see as a deep-state effort to delegitimize a duly elected president, a narrative that’s gaining traction as more documents come to light.