2026-04-17T15:19:38.126Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：埃文·佩雷斯、汉娜·拉比诺维茨
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发布于 2026年4月17日 美国东部时间上午11:19
2018年9月，前中央情报局局长约翰·布伦南在纽约。
据知情人士透露，司法部已将负责调查约翰·布伦南的迈阿密联邦职业检察官撤职，原因是她顶住压力，拒绝迅速对这位前中央情报局局长、总统唐纳德·特朗普的知名批评者提起诉讼。
据熟悉此事的人士称，玛丽亚·梅德蒂斯·隆周五通知了代表案件相关人员的律师，她将不再负责这项调查。数月来，她一直主导着这起敏感的政治调查，期间特朗普一直要求对布伦南和其他批评者提起诉讼。
对布伦南的调查聚焦于这位总统长期存在的政治不满之一——2017年的情报评估报告，该报告认定俄罗斯干涉2016年美国总统选举以帮助特朗普当选。
特朗普解雇前司法部长帕姆·邦迪后，对司法部的要求变得更加迫切，部分原因是他对自己希望提起的案件进展缓慢感到不满。代理司法部长托德·布兰奇加倍努力满足总统的要求，因为他希望在邦迪被解职后保住这一职位。
迈阿密联邦检察官杰森·雷丁·基尼奥内斯的办公室未立即回复置评请求。
知情人士表示，此次人事变动之际，调查人员近几周进行了约谈，并发出了新一轮传票，这表明案件正在推进，但不太可能按照司法部高级官员要求的快速时间表进行。
美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）此前报道称，负责此案的职业检察官和调查人员数月来一直抵制迅速对布伦南提起诉讼的要求，并向司法部官员表示，他们认为此案证据不足。尽管如此，他们仍在努力争取在华盛顿特区联邦法院提起诉讼。
多位消息人士称，梅德蒂斯·隆的团队已发出多轮传票、索要国会相关文件，目前正就调查寻求约谈证人，而布伦南的律师数月来一直在为可能遭到起诉做准备。
消息人士告诉CNN，最近几周，司法部官员与基尼奥内斯及其办公室人员会面，讨论调查进展。基尼奥内斯告诉官员们，起诉可能还需要数月时间，而司法部高级官员表示这无法接受。
作为佛罗里达南区国家安全部门负责人的梅德蒂斯·隆，领导的南部地区联邦检察官团队目前的调查重点是，布伦南多年前就那份情报评估向国会撒谎的指控。
布伦南2017年对众议院调查人员表示，俄罗斯“肆无忌惮地干涉”美国选举，包括主动联系特朗普竞选团队成员。不过，他并未使用“串通”一词来形容这种行为。
一项针对俄罗斯干涉选举的调查最终未发现特朗普竞选团队或其同伙与俄罗斯合谋，也未认定特朗普犯下罪行，但并未排除特朗普在妨碍司法公正方面的嫌疑。
Exclusive: Justice Department removes lead prosecutor from probe of Trump critic John Brennan
2026-04-17T15:19:38.126Z / CNN
By Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz
11 min ago
PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2026, 11:19 AM ET
Former CIA director John Brennan in New York, in September 2018.
Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
The Justice Department has removed the career Miami federal prosecutor leading the investigation into John Brennan, after she resisted pressure to quickly bring charges against the former CIA director and prominent critic of President Donald Trump, according to people briefed on the matter.
Maria Medetis Long on Friday notified attorneys representing people involved in the case that she was no longer handling the investigation, the people familiar with the matter said. She has led the politically sensitive probe for months amid demands from Trump to prosecute Brennan and other critics.
The investigation into Brennan is focused on one of the president’s longest standing political grievances — the 2017 intelligence assessment that found Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help him.
Trump’s demands have taken on more urgency for the Justice Department after Trump fired former Attorney General Pam Bondi, in part because of dissatisfaction at the slow pace of cases he wants brought. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has redoubled efforts to satisfy the president’s demands as he seeks to keep the job after Bondi’s ouster.
Miami US Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones’ office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The change comes as investigators in recent weeks have conducted interviews with issued a fresh round of subpoenas, the people briefed on the matter said, signaling a case that is moving ahead but not likely on the rapid timeline that top Justice Department officials have sought.
The career prosecutors and investigators handling the case have for months pushed back against demands to quickly bring charges against Brennan, CNN reported, and have signaled to Justice Department officials they don’t believe the case is a strong one. Still, they have continued to work toward possibly bringing it in federal court in Washington, DC.
Medetis Long’s team sent out several rounds of subpoenas, requests for documents from Congress, and is now seeking witness interviews as part of the probe, several sources say, and Brennan’s lawyers have been bracing for a possible indictment for months.
In recent weeks, DOJ officials met with Quiñones and others in his office to discuss the investigation’s progress, sources told CNN. Quiñones told the officials that charges could still be months away, sources say, which top Justice officials told him was not acceptable.
Prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida, where Medetis Long is the National Security Section Chief, are focused on allegations that Brennan lied to Congress about at the years-ago intelligence assessment.
Brennan told House investigators in 2017 that Russia “brazenly interfered” in US elections, including actively contacting members of Trump’s campaign. However, he stopped shy of dubbing it “collusion.”
An investigation into Russian election interference ultimately did not find that Trump’s campaign or associates conspired with Russia or that Trump committed a crime, but did not exonerate the president on obstruction of justice.