# The Brennan felony referral

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*John Kiriakou's July 2025 report, sourced to Matt Taibbe, that the Justice Department was moving beyond referred misdemeanour charges against John Brennan and James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress and was actively pursuing felony conspiracy charges against at least Brennan — a prospect Kiriakou said he would attend the trial of every single day.*

- **Subjects:** John Brennan; James Comey
- **What was referred:** Misdemeanour charges related to allegedly lying to Congress
- **What Kiriakou reported:** Felony conspiracy charges being actively pursued against at least Brennan
- **Source:** Matt Taibbe, interviewed by Kiriakou for Deep Focus immediately beforehand
- **Kiriakou''s stated intention:** 'I will go to Brennan''s trial every single day'
- **On Obama:** Cannot be arrested; Trump''s own Supreme Court immunity ruling forecloses it

**The Brennan felony referral** is [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou)'s July 2025 account of where the criminal exposure of [John Brennan](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-brennan) and [James Comey](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/james-comey) then stood.

## Obama is out of reach

The discussion began with [Donald Trump](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/donald-trump)'s suggestion that Barack Obama could be arrested over the Russia election affair. Kiriakou dismissed it on Trump's own precedent: *"thanks to Donald Trump going to the Supreme Court, a president can't be arrested for anything."* All Obama would have to argue *"is that he did it in the exercise of his functions as president of the United States."*[1]

## Brennan is not

*"Now, John Brennan is another issue,"* he said. What the Justice Department had been referred were misdemeanour charges against Brennan and Comey *"related to allegedly lying to Congress."*[2]

Kiriakou had, immediately before going on air, interviewed Matt Taibbe for his other podcast, Deep Focus. Taibbe confirmed the misdemeanour referral and added to it: what he was hearing was that prosecutors *"are actively pursuing felony conspiracy charges against at least Brennan and maybe Brennan and Comey."*[2][3]

## What he would do about it

Kiriakou did not affect neutrality about the prospect. He had mentioned it to the host offline already: *"I will go to Brennan's trial every single day. I mean it."* Told he would be there with a grin on his face, he answered: *"Karma is real."*[3]

## See also

- [John Brennan](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-brennan)
- [James Comey](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/james-comey)
- [Russiagate](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/russiagate)
- [Donald Trump](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/donald-trump)
- [Trump's Supreme Court appointees](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/trumps-supreme-court-appointees)

## Sources

1. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-07-25), at 1:22:04. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RypVxybJzHo&t=4924s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-07-25-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/
2. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-07-25), at 1:22:36. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RypVxybJzHo&t=4956s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-07-25-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/
3. DeProgram Show with Ted Ra (2025-07-25), at 1:23:08. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RypVxybJzHo&t=4988s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-07-25-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra-deprogram-show-with-ted-ra/

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