John Brennan, who served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) under former U.S. President Barack Obama, was referred on Tuesday to the Department of Justice by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). Brennan is accused of lying to Congress about the Steele dossier, Axios reports.

The referral represents high-level efforts by House Republicans to pursue a former intelligence official, aligning with former President Donald Trump’s broader goal of targeting political opponents.

The Steele dossier, widely discredited, is a compilation of memos created in 2016 by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. It alleged connections between Russia and Trump. Portions of the dossier were submitted to the FBI and cited in intelligence materials, including the intelligence community’s 2017 assessment of Russian interference in the U.S. election.

Brennan has previously been under investigation by the current Department of Justice for allegedly lying about Russia’s involvement, but he has denied wrongdoing.

In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, the committee claimed there is “significant evidence” that Brennan made “multiple willful and deliberate false statements” in his testimony regarding CIA involvement with the Steele dossier.

“Brennan’s claim that the CIA had no involvement with the Steele dossier is inconsistent with the facts,” Jordan wrote in the letter. “Brennan’s testimony… was a brazen attempt to knowingly and deliberately misrepresent and fabricate facts that are material.”

The letter accuses Brennan of three separate counts of providing false testimony. It alleges that he lied in 2023, after the election, about CIA use of the Steele dossier in the intelligence community assessment. Jordan wrote that Brennan provided misleading information regarding agency resistance to including the dossier in the ICA. Brennan is also accused of giving false testimony to the House Intelligence Committee during 2017 hearings.

“John Brennan lied to Congress,” Jordan wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday. “Today, we have sent him to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.”