Joe diGenova, former U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., and Victoria Toensing, a former senior Justice Department official, told Newsmax Tuesday former CIA Director John Brennan is going to be held accountable for lying to the American people.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, formally referred former CIA Director John Brennan to the Justice Department on Tuesday, alleging that Brennan knowingly made false statements to Congress about the agency’s role in the 2017 intelligence assessment of Russian election interference.
“He’s lied to the American people for years and he thought he could get away with it,” Toensing said on “The Chris Salcedo Show.” “This is going to bring him some justice.”
Toensing said she was unsure if Brennan would be convicted, but this requires him to go through a process.
DiGenova noted that since President Donald Trump announced he was running for president in 2016, he was the victim of a massive conspiracy involving senior government officials all the way up to President Barack Obama.
“The question then becomes, how do you charge that?” DiGenova said. ‘If you decide you’re going to charge a bunch of people, how would you do that?
“And under American law, you can charge a conspiracy, violation of civil rights,” DiGenova continued. “You can charge a conspiracy to defraud the United States government. And then the statute of limitations is continued.”
He said by continuing to spread their lies about the Russia hoax, the statute of limitations resets.
“Every time one of those people in that conspiracy commits an overt act, for example, lying to Congress,” DiGenova said. “That would be an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy and would restart the statute of limitations for another five years. So if you if he testified in 2023, the conspiracy, the grand conspiracy can be prosecuted up to 2028.”
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