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\n Former CIA Director John Brennan, who has been under investigation by the Justice Department, is demanding the Trump administration preserve records about its inquiry into him, and asking for a court\u2019s help, according to a new lawsuit filed in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.\n <\/p>

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\n Brennan alleges that the Trump administration is vindictively trying to prosecute him, and that he is concerned internal Justice Department records and communications may not be kept in a way that would allow him to challenge a case in the future for improper prosecution decisions, according to the filing.\n <\/p>\n

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\nFormer Director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan testifies before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill, May 23, 2017 in Washington, DC.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n \u201cAdministration officials from the Acting Attorney General to the FBI Director and the Counselor overseeing the Brennan investigations have been publicly declaring Director Brennan a criminal, not only before securing a conviction in court but even before a full investigation and an indictment,\u201d Brennan\u2019s lawyers wrote on Wednesday. \u201cAnd, certain officials in the Department of Justice are engaging in demonstrably irregular prosecutorial activity in order to gin up a case that will satisfy the President\u2019s direction.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cOfficials of this Administration have shown an advertent disdain for their preservation obligations,\u201d they also wrote.\n <\/p>\n

\n Brennan has asked a federal judge in Washington to order President Donald Trump, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, top prosecutors out of Miami who have investigated him and intelligence community chiefs to preserve their records about Brennan.\n <\/p>\n

\n He says the court should also order the preservation of records into any broader \u201cgrand conspiracy\u201d investigation the Justice Department may pursue, looking back into former federal officials over years of criminal investigations around Trump.\n <\/p>

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\n CNN has reached out to the Justice Department and White House for comment.\n <\/p>\n

\n In recent weeks, the Southern District of Florida US attorney\u2019s office has beefed up its prosecutorial chops. Just this week, CNN reported that the formerly high-ranking War on Terror-era Justice Department official John Yoo would be consulting with the office on a case that may involve Brennan.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Previously, Brennan\u2019s attorneys had said that a prosecutor told them the former CIA director was a target of investigations out of the prosecutor\u2019s office.\n <\/p>\n

\n Those include the so-called grand jury investigation, which has prompted a flurry of grand jury subpoenas, and an inquiry into whether Brennan lied to Congress about an intelligence report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Brennan maintains he has done nothing wrong.\n <\/p>

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\nThis story was updated with additional reporting. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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