Former CIA Director John Brennan is seeking a court order requiring the Trump administration to retain records related to allegedly vindictive investigations into him and his involvement in probing alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
While the Justice Department hadn’t formally brought an indictment against Brennan, his lawsuit noted that it had undertaken grand jury investigations in recent months. He accused prosecutors of abusing their authority and said there was reason to believe the administration wasn’t preserving records as required under law.
Brennan said the judge’s order was necessary to preserve his constitutional rights and evidence that he could use to prove vindictiveness in a would-be prosecution. …