Just the News founder John Solomon is predicting that a decision on whether to indict former CIA Director John Brennan could come within weeks, citing what he described as a highly unusual and legally significant prosecutorial step: federal prosecutors have formally requested official, certified Senate transcripts — a move Solomon says is a strong signal that the case against Brennan may be nearing the indictment stage.
"I'd be watching for a decision in the next few weeks on John Brennan, the CIA director," Solomon said Tuesday on the "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast. "Why? Because it's very rare for a prosecutor to go to Senate and say, 'Would you please send me official transcripts certified and voted on by the Congress, send them to me.' They had those transcripts in unofficial capacity. When they ask for an official transcript, it means you're getting near an indictment."
The request for official certified transcripts is legally meaningful because unofficial copies, however accurate, do not carry the same evidentiary weight in court proceedings. When prosecutors move from using informal materials to formally requesting certified, congressionally authenticated documents, it typically signals they are building a prosecutable case — assembling the kind of evidence that will stand up in front of a grand jury and, eventually, a trial jury.
Jordan: The Probe Is 'Heating Up'
Solomon's prediction follows a similar assessment from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), who told Fox News weeks ago that the Justice Department's investigation of the former CIA director is "getting serious."
"Maybe there's ultimately going to be some accountability for Brennan," Jordan said during a "Hannity" appearance, adding: "I think it's getting serious here."
Jordan had referred Brennan to the Justice Department last October, tying the referral to a core allegation that has been building in the documentary record for years: that Brennan lied under oath in his 2023 Judiciary Committee testimony by denying that the CIA used the Steele dossier in preparing the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian election interference, and by claiming the CIA actually opposed including the dossier.
That claim has since been directly contradicted by declassified materials. A bombshell House Intelligence Committee report revealed that the ICA leaned on the Clinton-campaign-funded Steele dossier to underpin its central conclusion that Vladimir Putin aspired to help Trump win the 2016 election — while ignoring evidence suggesting Russia may have actually favored or fully expected a Hillary Clinton victory. Brennan's denial that the dossier played any role, and his claim that the CIA pushed back against its inclusion, now appear directly at odds with the documentary record.
Jordan was pointed in crediting former Attorney General Pam Bondi for putting the machinery of accountability in motion. "God bless attorney general Bondi for initiating this conspiracy investigation down there and putting this unit together at the Justice Department to look into all of this," Jordan said. "Now I think we're maybe hopefully finally going to get some accountability."
Who Is John Brennan — and What Did He Do?
For readers who have followed the Russiagate saga from its origins, Brennan needs no introduction. But the breadth of the allegations against him warrants a clear summary.
Brennan served as CIA Director under President Barack Obama from 2013 to 2017. He was among the most senior intelligence officials overseeing the assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 election specifically to benefit Trump — a conclusion that formed the intellectual and political foundation for years of investigations, congressional hearings, and the Mueller special counsel probe that consumed the first two years of
Trump's first term.
The declassified record now raises serious questions about the integrity of that process at multiple levels. The 2017 ICA — produced under Brennan's oversight — has been criticized for incorporating the Steele dossier as supporting material while the dossier's author, Christopher Steele, had already been cut off by the FBI as a source for making unauthorized media disclosures. Brennan has also been referenced in newly declassified documents related to the false allegation that Trump campaign adviser Walid Phares had taken a $10 million bribe from the Egyptian government — a CIA report that was later disproven by investigators but used as a predicate for surveillance anyway.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard accused Brennan's former colleague, ex-ICIG Michael Atkinson, of "weaponizing" the whistleblower process during the 2019 Ukraine impeachment. The same network of Obama-era intelligence officials — Brennan, former DNI James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey, and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe — forms the cast of characters at the center of virtually every major documented abuse from the Russiagate era.
A Reckoning Years in the Making
The potential Brennan indictment represents one of the most significant accountability moments of the Trump era — if it materializes. For years, Brennan operated with the full confidence that his actions as CIA director would never face legal scrutiny. He became a fixture on MSNBC, repeatedly calling Trump a traitor and predicting his imminent legal downfall, while the evidence of his own potential misconduct accumulated in classified files he believed would never see the light of day.
Tulsi Gabbard's declassification campaign has changed that calculation. The Fani Files, the Mueller whistleblower revelations, the suppressed Ukraine impeachment evidence, the declassified voter registration hack intelligence, and now the closing net around Brennan himself are all products of the same systematic effort to open the books on a decade of intelligence community misconduct.
The request for certified Senate transcripts may be the most concrete signal yet that the era of impunity for the architects of Russiagate is finally coming to an end.
"Now I think we're maybe hopefully finally going to get some accountability," Jordan said.
After everything that has been documented, declassified, and revealed in recent months, that hope feels closer to reality than it ever has before.
Federal prosecutors have formally requested certified Senate transcripts as part of the Brennan investigation. A decision on whether to seek an indictment is expected within weeks, according to Just the News founder John Solomon.
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04.15.2026