Brennan: “We, the CIA and the intelligence community, had collected a fair amount of information in the summer of 2016 about what the Russians were doing on multiple fronts. And we wanted to make sure that the FBI had full access to that.”
Brennan: "the FBI has a very close relationship with its British counterparts. And so the FBI had visibility into a number of things that were going on involving some individuals who may have had some affiliation with the Trump campaign.”
Brennan: “Any time we would incidentally collect information on a U.S. person, we would hand that over to the FBI because they have the legal authority to do it. We would not pursue that type of investigative, you know, sort of leads. We would give it to the FBI.”
Brennan: “I was aware of intelligence and information about contacts between Russian officials and U.S. persons … and it served as the basis for the FBI investigation.”
Meanwhile, Brennan minimized his knowledge of the specifics of the dossier in both Congressional testimony and interviews, such as the one he did on “Meet the Press” in February 2018 where he claimed he did not see the Dossier until December 2016:
But Clapper appeared to tell a differing story:

“Some of the substantive content, not all of it, but some of the substantive content of the dossier, we were able to corroborate in our Intelligence Community assessment from other sources in which we had very high confidence …”
More on Brennan's Crossfire Hurricane Fusion Cell:

Brennan had previously discussed the task force formation during his Feb. 4, 2018, interview on “Meet the Press”
Brennan said during testimony that his “intelligence” served as the basis for the FBI counterintelligence investigation:

“I was aware of intelligence and information about contacts between Russian officials and U.S. persons…and it served as the basis for the FBI investigation.”
Problem. @DevinNunes disclosed to @MariaBartiromo that there was NO official intelligence:

“There was no intelligence that passed through the Five Eyes channels to our government…We now know that there was no official intelligence that was used to start this investigation.”
Brennan cont:

"We were picking things up that was of great relevance to the FBI, and we wanted to make sure that they were there - so they could piece it together with whatever they were collecting domestically here."
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