FBI Brennan probe expands; Miami US Attorney to interview ~6 witnesses on 2017 ICA origins

Analysis
The Miami venue and the 2023 House Judiciary testimony focus are the operative signals: routing through the Southern District of Florida, where the same Quinones grand jury developing the broader Comey-Brennan-Strzok-McCabe-Smith conspiracy theory sits before Judge Cannon, very likely positions DOJ to bundle a perjury count with conspiracy charges built atop the Ratcliffe-commissioned 2025 ICA tradecraft review, moderate confidence given procedural fit and the December target letter. Expanding the witness pool to additional 2017 ICA participants, per Reuters via multiple sources with no on-record DOJ confirmation, converts the case from a single ex-official's testimony dispute into a structural attack on the assessment's analytic chain, and almost certainly chills the small remaining cohort of analysts willing to publicly defend pre-Trump Russian interference assessments within the next 60–90 days. The probe may instead be built up to look serious before quietly collapsing on speech-and-debate or proof difficulties, the activity itself delivering the political deterrent regardless of any charging outcome.