Nunes sending eight criminal referrals to Attorney General William Barr
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California Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday he was planning to send eight criminal referrals to Attorney General William Barr as soon as this week.
Nunes, who investigated accusations of FBI and Department of Justice abuse while he was previously chairman of the intelligence panel, did not say who he would be referring in a Fox News interview on Sunday.
Appearing on Fox's "Sunday Morning Futures," Nunes said five of the referrals are related to lying to Congress, misleading Congress and leaking classified information.
The other referrals, Nunes said, are allegations of lying to the FISA court that approves foreign surveillance warrants, manipulating intelligence and what he described as a "global leak referral," which Nunes said wasn't tied to one individual.
"We couldn't really send these criminal referrals over without an Attorney General in place, so we are prepared this week to notify the Attorney General that we are prepared to send those referrals over and brief him if he wishes to be briefed. We think they're pretty clear, but as of right now this is, this may not be all of them, but this cleans up quite a bit. We have eight referrals that we are prepared to send over to the Attorney General this week," Nunes said.
Criminal referrals from Congress to the Justice Department are effectively requests for a criminal investigation from the Justice Department and the FBI.
When Republicans controlled Congress, Nunes launched a committee investigation into allegations the FBI and Justice Department abused the FISA process, including the release of a classified memo detailing his accusations.
The referrals are the latest action Nunes has taken since losing his gavel -- and the subpoena power that comes with it -- in the new Congress. Nunes last month sued Twitter and several parody accounts , including @devincow, accusing the social media site of censoring conservatives.
By Jeremy Herb, CNN
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Almost sounds like desperation.
Just Nunes yelling, "Squirrel", to deflect from Mueller's Report finally coming out...
He lost some of the power he had so instead of running to trump he is running to the new trump DOJ.
Nunes is playing the best cards he has for Trump deflection. The investigations, if they occur, will distract, confuse and further harden the divisions of America. This is the goal.
He couldn't send them out until now, since the Mueller investigation was on-going while he was the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Until the report was concluded, these referrals had to remain on the backburner due to any such referrals possibly having a negative impact on the result of the investigation and being considered tampering with witnesses and/or obstruction of justice.
all in 2yrs work
Really need to clean out the haters, racist, and the like from the republican party
We did. They all ran to the democratic party in the 1860s, then again in the 1960s. Nothing has changed since.
Until it was concluded? Why?
They did not know what Mueller was doing or investigating. His investigation would in no way impact what Mueller was doing.
It is all games as he now wants what looks like retribution.
Actually, the FISA warrants were part of the Mueller investigation as they were the entire basis for the Mueller investigation. The FISA warrants used the Steele dossier and the subsequent circular news articles about portions of the Steele dossier as the reason for spying on the Trump campaign and Trump as President, therefore anything dealing with lying to Congress over those issues were part of the Mueller investigation. Since Christopher Steele, almost all of Fusion GPS, and many government officials (Bruce Ohr, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein, etc.) who were involved with the Steele dossier and FISA process were either part of the Mueller investigation or witnesses regarding possible Russian collusion or obstruction of justice that Mueller was investigating; any action taken by Nunes before the Mueller investigation ended would have been at least obstruction of justice or witness tampering.
Officials have stated on record that the dossier was not the reason for the first warrants.
He still did not know what Mueller was doing. They have had separate investigations ongoing as well.
Nunes is nothing but a trump lackey and doing it now just looks like retribution.
I am saying Nunes is a partisan hack that was caught running to the Whitehouse to inform trump on ongoing investigations.
Ender, are you claiming that you have not been paying attention? Because, only someone who has not been paying attention would believe that Nunes wouldn't know that his committee's investigations into the FISA warrants would cross paths with the Mueller investigation as the FISA warrants are an integral part of the FBI investigation into Russian collusion and Mueller's primary investigation was Russian collusion.
It is not even Nunes' committee, anymore. Elections have consequences...
Mueller was not investigating the issue of warrants or the FISA process. As far as I know, he was not investigating the FBI or the agents that got the warrant.
The ranking members and the Committee chair all have the power of issuing referrals. So, it doesn't matter if he is chairman or not, as the ranking member he has many of the same powers as the chairman.
Mueller was investigating Russian collusion and the FISA warrants were part of the FBI investigation into Russian collusion WHICH MUELLER TOOK OVER. Therefore, Nunes could not issue any sort of criminal referral to Barr as the investigation into the FISA warrants would intersect DIRECTLY with the Mueller investigation since the FISA warrants were CENTRAL to the Russian collusion investigation.
What I would admit to would get me a deletion. Let's just say some will live in the trump shadow and wear it like a badge, even when it makes them look like a fool.
And again, Mueller was not investigating the warrant process or the agents that applied for it.
The people that Nunes seems to be going after would be the ones involved in the warrant process.
We will see where it goes, which I am guessing no where.
And some are willfully ignorant on simple decorum.
That is painfully obvious.
Tell you what, stop trying to needle people or move on.
If one wants to just give digs, take it to HD because there are plenty of things I could say.
Other wise, buzz off.
Ender, the results of the FISA warrants were directly applicable to the Mueller investigation. To investigate the FISA warrant process would require interfering with the Mueller probe as it was using the results of those FISA warrants as part of its investigation. That seems to be the part you are either willfully ignoring or not understanding.
Ok, I can concede as much.
Seems to me though if Mueller had investigated all of that, and had no referrals for wrong doing on that aspect, then Nunes wouldn't either.
Mueller might have ignored that as he might feel that the FISA process was outside the scope of his investigation despite the broadness of his authority. Plus, on top of that many of those people involved in the FISA process were actually working on his investigation or had ordered the investigation. We know that Rod Rosenstein admitted to having signed at least one of the FISA applications regarding Carter Page.
You are assuming that Mueller investigated the FISA warrants, and didn't just take them as being settled- after all his good friend, and a man he mentored, Comey was the one that requested them.
Answer me this- since no one else will even touch it.
Carter Page is named in the Steele Dossier as a Russian spy, the FISA warrants use his name to get the wire taps on him, and anyone he was associated with- including the ones in Trump Tower. Shouldn't he have been the very first person Mueller questioned and indicted? Instead, other than having his name dragged threw the political mud, he has been ignored by the investigation- not one charge has been brought against him.
If Carter Page figured heavily into any decision to grant a FISA warrant, then that warrant must be reviewed; and any information illegally gathered from it thrown out. Should have slammed the Mueller investigation shut at the very start; but Mueller was too busy investigating everyone even remotely related to Trump, for anything. Not hesitating to allow Hillary sycophants from the FBI on his team; or hiring an almost all Obama and Clinton lackey hit legal hit squad.
Oh, and this from the FISA warrants associated with him that have been released.
Seems pretty damning to me; but no questioning or charges. Why is that?
I don't buy it mainly because Mueller charged for things outside of his scope and also sent referrals to other courts.
Rosenstein was not working on the investigation, Mueller only had to report to him every so often.
I was debating that the FISA process was not investigated.
Page was trying to be recruited but even the Russians knew he was an idiot wackjob.
Maybe he is walking around just for the fact that he is a bloody idiot.
He should have been looked at and watched and the people he was associated with.
it is called justice. and is best served cold.
we will NOT be living in a country where every time they lose an election the democrats get to fabricate evidence to remove the incoming president.
people have to be made examples of.
a clear message must be sent. and it must be harsh.
this is not a game. but it is one for the history books.
this is actually good news for the left. if the origins of the last 3 yrs of investigations started legit? the left will be totally vindicated.
should be good fun
april showers bring may flowers.