John Brennan prosecution delayed by John Thune.

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Earlier this year, the U.S. Justice Department asked two Senate committees to provide transcripts and records of contacts with former CIA Director John Brennan regarding the now-discredited Russia collusion allegations, signaling there was an active investigation into whether the former spy boss had misled or obstructed Congress. The letters gave a hard deadline of Feb. 23 for compliance.

Two months later, the body run by Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has not complied, slowing a key angle of a grand jury investigation based in Fort Pierce, Fla., into whether Obama and Biden-era government officials engaged in a conspiracy to weaponize law enforcement and intelligence tools to harm President Donald Trump and his followers.

All that is needed, senators told Just the News, is a resolution to be introduced and a floor vote in the GOP-controlled Senate. Neither has happened — even after prosecutors narrowed their requests to evidence related to Brennan — though prosecutors were recently allowed to read one Senate Intelligence Committee report in a secure room, officials said.

Thune's team has told DOJ the Senate leader is trying to get unanimous consent to transmit the evidence, negotiating with Democrats to avoid a floor vote that could slow down other legislation.

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The weeks-long standoff means a Republican administration is being kept from seeing evidence from a Congress in its own party’s control that referred Brennan in the first place for prosecution on allegations he misled lawmakers.

One option, officials told Just the News, is for DOJ to escalate pressure by serving the Senate with a grand jury subpoena.

The delay stands in stark contrast to the House, which had already voted to transmit to DOJ similar evidence from its side of the Capitol. It also risks inflaming Thune’s already strained relationship with Trump.

The president has openly fumed that the Senate leader has been unwilling to rid the chamber of the 60-vote filibuster rule and has been unable to muster enough votes for the administration’s signature election-integrity legislation called the Save America Act, which would impose citizenship checks and photo ID for voters in federal elections.

Two spokespersons for Thune did not immediately return an email from Just the News seeking comment. A spokesperson for the Senate Intelligence Committee also did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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