Overview
- Investigators issued a new round of subpoenas from the Southern District of Florida seeking records from the years after the January 2017 intelligence assessment.
- An initial wave in November sought documents related to how the assessment was prepared during the final weeks of the Obama administration.
- Multiple former intelligence and law-enforcement officials have received subpoenas, and the Justice Department declined to comment on the inquiry.
- Brennan’s lawyers say he was designated a target and have told the court they have not been given a legally justifiable basis for the probe or its Florida venue.
- The 2017 assessment found Russia showed a clear preference for Trump and that Putin ordered an influence campaign, and a later CIA review criticized a classified annex’s Steele dossier reference without disputing the interference finding.