Bennan’s Book

I missed this from Brennan's book. Good on @SenMcConnell for sensing what was up during his private briefing from Brennan. pic.twitter.com/syrZe3N8dm

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) July 21, 2025

… Very funny to see Brennan's write up about his Summer 2016 briefing of Devin Nunes, noted Russia hawk -- and lead enemy of the deep state's Russia collusion hoax.

Nunes, the chairman of the House intelligence committee, was notable for his general lack of substantive curiosity or concern about what I had just told him. "Boy, oh boy," I said to Neal on the way out. "It's times like this that I really miss having Mike Rogers as House intelligence

As part of his tirade against Nunes for exposing the IC's Russia collusion hoax, Brennan praises Paul Ryan for his "usual accommodating manner."

Nunes's office that afternoon to explain our position, but Nunes refused to take my call, opting instead to issue a public statement, blasting us, in what would become his dishonest fashion, for refusing to brief the committee. Nunes's antics were well known even back then to other members of Congress, so I called Speaker Ryan that evening to explain why we needed to postpone the briefing. In his usual accommodating manner, the Speaker said that he fully understood and told me not to worry about Nunes.