By ERIC TUCKER<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Former CIA Director John Brennan has been subpoenaed to testify next month before a Florida grand jury as part of a Justice Department investigation<\/a> into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against President Donald Trump, one of his lawyers said Monday.<\/p>\n Ken Wainstein, an attorney for Brennan, disclosed in a court filing that prosecutors last Thursday presented him with a subpoena for Brennan to appear Oct. 15 before a grand jury in Fort Pierce, Florida.<\/p>\n He said he was told that the subpoena relates to a \u201cfar-reaching\u201d criminal probe examining a loosely defined theory that the government officials who have investigated Trump over the last decade, including over Russia election interference in 2016<\/a> and his more recent retention of classified documents<\/a> at his Mar-a-Lago estate, conspired to deprive Trump of his civil rights. The subpoena to Brennan is among a flurry that have been issued in recent weeks.<\/p>\n Wainstein said he was informed by a prosecutor that Brennan remains a target in a Washington-based investigation into whether he lied to Congress in 2023, a claim the former CIA director and his attorneys have consistently denied. Subpoenas demanding testimony before a grand jury in that false statements probe were issued in spring, then abruptly withdrawn<\/a> in favor of voluntary interviews.<\/p>\n The subpoena was delivered on the same day that Joe diGenova, the prosecutor who had been leading<\/a> what is casually known as the \u201cgrand conspiracy\u201d investigation, abruptly resigned amid what a person familiar with the matter has described as displeasure from the Justice Department and White House over the pace and management of the probe.<\/p>\n The Justice Department has not publicly announced a replacement for diGenova. The member of the investigative team with whom Wainstein spoke was Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who unsuccessfully pushed the Justice Department in 2020<\/a> to back the Trump\u2019s false claims that the 2020 election had been stolen from him.<\/p>\n