2026-05-12 10:01 UTC / 路透社
作者：艾琳·班科、安德鲁·古兹沃德、乔纳森·兰迪
2026年5月12日 美国东部时间上午10:01 更新于1小时前
2017年5月23日，美国华盛顿国会山，前中央情报局局长约翰·布伦南在众议院情报委员会作证，就“2016年大选期间俄罗斯的主动干预措施”接受质询。路透社/凯文·拉马克 资料图
- 内容摘要
- 消息人士称，联邦调查局就布伦南在2017年俄罗斯评估中的角色约谈中情局工作人员
- 调查审查布伦南在国会的证词以及中情局对斯蒂尔档案的使用情况
- 特朗普盟友推动该调查；迪杰诺瓦如今主导调查引发中情局工作人员担忧
纽约5月12日路透电 — 据五位知情人士透露，美国司法部正在就前中央情报局局长约翰·布伦南在一份关于俄罗斯干预2016年美国总统大选以帮助唐纳德·特朗普的情报评估报告中所扮演的角色展开调查，联邦调查局已开始约谈现任和前任中情局雇员。
三位知情人士表示，调查人员于上周在弗吉尼亚州兰利的中情局总部接受了迈阿密分局特工的询问，预计未来几周还将继续约谈相关人员。
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美国佛罗里达州南区检察官办公室数月来一直在对布伦南展开调查。检察官正在审查他2023年在讨论2017年俄罗斯干预2016年大选的情报评估报告时，是否向国会作出了虚假陈述。
该评估报告的核心结论聚焦于俄罗斯针对希拉里·克林顿的竞选团队开展网络间谍活动和影响力行动以助推特朗普当选，后来得到了司法部、两党组成的参议院委员会以及中情局审查的确认。
尽管如此，将俄罗斯调查斥为“骗局”的特朗普总统一直推动检察官深入调查他认为曾牵头该调查的人员，其中就包括布伦南。
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一位熟悉布伦南调查的知情人士表示，联邦调查局特工已约谈了约十几名参与2017年评估报告工作的现任和前任中情局官员。
调查人员向这些现任和前任中情局官员询问布伦南在撰写评估报告中的角色，以及报告结论在多大程度上受到一份备受争议的、关于特朗普与俄罗斯关联的未经证实情报档案的影响。
这份因作者英国前情报官员克里斯托弗·斯蒂尔而得名的“斯蒂尔档案”，由特朗普的政治对手出资制作，包含有关其2016年竞选团队与莫斯科之间所谓关联的低俗传闻，特朗普对此坚决否认。
该档案在评估报告中仅被简要提及，其指控摘要被附在报告的机密版本中。布伦南曾表示，中情局反对将该档案纳入报告，机密摘要仅作为与联邦调查局妥协的一部分才被加入。
路透社此前曾报道，联邦调查局预计将在对布伦南的调查中约谈情报官员。中情局和司法部拒绝置评。布伦南的律师也拒绝置评。
布伦南的律师在写给迈阿密联邦首席法官的一封信中表示，检察官已告知其当事人，他是此次调查的目标。他声称检察官正在“挑选法官”，试图将调查引导至佛罗里达州皮尔斯堡的一名特朗普任命的法官，该法官此前曾驳回针对特朗普的一起刑事案件。
熟悉调查的消息人士预计，由于布伦南的国会证词是在华盛顿特区作出的，任何指控最终都必须在当地提交。
众议院司法委员会共和党主席、俄亥俄州众议员吉姆·乔丹于去年10月将布伦南移交司法部，指控他在2023年的国会证词中撒谎，其中包括称中情局“完全没有参与”斯蒂尔档案。
司法部长托德·布兰奇在帕姆·邦迪担任部长期间协助监督了对布伦南的司法部调查。今年4月，由于白宫对其团队调查的进度和结果日益不满，特朗普解雇了邦迪。
司法部上月解除了负责布伦南调查的迈阿密资深检察官职务。随后任命了乔·迪杰诺瓦——一名前联邦检察官、保守派法律评论员兼布伦南的批评者——负责该调查以及相关的一项审查，即此前对特朗普的调查是否构成针对总统的阴谋。
检察官最初发出了多份传票，要求布伦南调查的证人在华盛顿的联邦大陪审团前作证，此举反映出调查态度更为强硬。据两位熟悉调查的消息人士透露，在传票发出后不久的4月中旬，这一不同寻常的举措被撤回。
两位消息人士称，迪杰诺瓦的任命引发了中情局现任和前任雇员的不安，他们担心他会打击报复任何特朗普认为参与了政治动机调查的情报界人士。
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Exclusive: FBI questions CIA officers over Russia assessment in Brennan probe, sources say
2026-05-12 10:01 UTC / Reuters
By Erin Banco, Andrew Goudsward and Jonathan Landay
May 12, 2026 10:01 AM UTC Updated 1 hour ago
Former CIA director John Brennan testifies before the House Intelligence Committee to take questions on “Russian active measures during the 2016 election campaign” in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., May 23, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
- Summary
- FBI interviews CIA staff on Brennan’s role in 2017 Russia assessment, sources say
- Probe examines Brennan’s statements to Congress and CIA’s use of Steele dossier
- Trump allies push investigation; DiGenova now leads probe, raising CIA staff concerns
NEW YORK, May 12 (Reuters) – The FBI has begun interviewing current and former CIA employees as part of the Department of Justice’s investigation into ex-CIA director John Brennan over his role in an intelligence finding that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election to help Donald Trump, according to five sources familiar with the matter.
Employees were questioned last week by agents out of the Miami field office at CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia. Interviews are expected to continue throughout the coming weeks, three of the sources said.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida has for months pursued an investigation into Brennan. Prosecutors have been examining whether he made a false statement to Congress in 2023 in discussing a 2017 intelligence assessment that looked at Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The core conclusions of that assessment, which focused on Russia’s cyber-espionage and influence efforts to boost Trump’s candidacy over Hillary Clinton, were later affirmed by the Justice Department, a bipartisan Senate committee and a CIA review.
Still, President Trump, who has described the Russia investigation as a “hoax”, has pushed prosecutors to dig into those he perceives to have been involved in spearheading the probe, including Brennan.
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A source familiar with the Brennan investigation said that FBI agents had questioned about a dozen current and former CIA officers who worked on the 2017 assessment.
The current and former CIA officers are being asked about Brennan’s role in producing the assessment and the extent to which its conclusions were shaped by a controversial dossier of unverified claims about Trump’s ties to Russia.
Known as the Steele dossier after its author, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, the document was funded by Trump’s political opponents and included salacious rumors about alleged links between his 2016 campaign and Moscow, which Trump strenuously denied.
The dossier was referenced briefly in the assessment and a summary of its allegations was attached to a classified version of the report. Brennan has said the CIA opposed including the dossier in the report and the classified summary was only included as part of a compromise with the FBI.
Reuters previously reported that the FBI was expected to interview intelligence officials as part of its investigation into Brennan. The CIA and Justice Department declined to comment. A lawyer for Brennan declined to comment.
Brennan’s lawyer said in a letter to the chief federal judge in Miami that prosecutors had told his client that he is a target of the investigation. He claimed prosecutors were “judge shopping” by trying to steer the investigation to a Trump-appointed judge in Fort Pierce, Florida, who previously dismissed a criminal case against Trump.
Sources familiar with the probe expect that any charges would eventually have to be filed in Washington, D.C. given that’s where Brennan’s congressional testimony took place.
Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, the Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee, referred Brennan to the DOJ in October, alleging he lied during a 2023 congressional testimony, in part by saying the CIA was “not involved at all” with the Steele dossier.
Attorney General Todd Blanche helped oversee the Justice Department’s investigation into Brennan when the office was run by Pam Bondi. Trump fired Bondi in April amid mounting White House frustration with the pace and outcome of her team’s investigations.
The Justice Department last month removed the veteran prosecutor in Miami who had been leading the investigation into Brennan. The department then installed Joe DiGenova, a former federal prosecutor turned conservative legal commentator and critic of Brennan, to oversee the probe and a related effort to examine whether prior investigations into Trump amounted to a conspiracy against the president.
Prosecutors initially issued several subpoenas for witnesses in the Brennan investigation to testify before a federal grand jury in Washington, a move that reflected a more aggressive approach to the investigation. In an unusual move, those subpoenas were withdrawn in mid-April shortly after being issued, according to two sources familiar with the investigation.
DiGenova’s appointment has rattled current and former employees of the CIA who worry he will go after anyone inside the intelligence community who Trump perceives to have played a part in politically motivated investigations, two of the sources said.
Reporting by Erin Banco in New York; Andrew Goudsward in Washington; Jonathan Landay in Washington. Editing by Michael Learmonth and Sanjeev Miglani
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