California Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said 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.
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.Read MoreCriminal referrals from Congress to the Justice Department are effectively requests for a criminal investigation from the Justice Department and the FBI.
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