On Tuesday, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) referred former CIA Director John Brennan to the Justice Department on charges that he made false statements to Congress during testimony in 2023.

Brennan made "numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact" that contradicted established facts on the record of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the CIA, Jordan said.

The statements in question dealt with the Steele Dossier, a piece of opposition research containing allegations about President Donald Trump that has largely been discredited, but was used in 2016 to try to harm his candidacy and early presidency.

"Eagerly" wanted to use dossier

Brennan claimed that “the CIA was not involved at all with the (Steele) dossier," Jordan wrote in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

"As the newly declassified documents demonstrate, Brennan eagerly wanted to include information from the Steele dossier in the (Intelligence Community Assessment), a fact Brennan himself documented in writing," Jordan wrote.

The dossier's becoming public led the State Department at the time to investigate whether Trump engaged in collusion with Russia to influence the 2016 election, an investigation that went on for three years despite leaders knowing the dossier was fake.

Brennan denied wrongdoing but has not commented on the referral yet.

If Brennan is indicted, it would be the third indictment of deep state actors against Trump since he took office, after former FBI director James Comey and National Security Advisor John Bolton.

"Witch hunt"

Trump decried the Russia collusion investigation from the start, calling it a politically motivated witch hunt.

When Republicans took power in Washington, D.C., he ordered agencies to investigate what exactly led to the investigations of him and whether any wrongdoing took place.

Turns out the whole thing was manufactured out of thin air, and there never was any credible evidence of Russian collusion with Trump or any Russian influence over the election at all.

Hopefully, the indictments will deter others in government from using their power to go after political opponents on completely spurious charges that have no basis in reality.

I won't be holding my breath, though--it seems like Pandora's Box has been opened and the effects will be difficult to undo.