Republicans are broadening their investigation into special counsel Robert Mueller as the Obamagate controversy heats up.
"We've also expanded our investigation into the Mueller team and everything that happened with Mueller and the people at DOJ and FBI that were above Mueller. And so, we will be making criminal referrals in the coming weeks against the Mueller team. We're just now putting that together and, of course, as always, waiting on more documents that we really need to come out," the California congressman told Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on Witch Hunt: The Flynn Vindication, a special program that aired Sunday evening.
It has been more than a year since Mueller wrapped up his special counsel investigation.
Nunes says Mueller should have shut down his investigation right away, arguing that the former FBI director knew from the day he became special counsel in May 2017 that there was no coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
The House Intelligence Committee, which conducted its own Russian interference investigation when Nunes was chairman, determined there was no collusion by early 2018.
Nunes sent eight criminal referrals to the Justice Department last year, and Attorney General William Barr appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham to conduct an investigation into misconduct by the officials involved in that affair.
Democrats have decried the efforts of Barr and Durham as a play at undermining the credibility of Mueller's investigation, but Schiff and others have in recent weeks begun to open up about their frustrations with the way the special counsel conducted the Russia inquiry, particularly with regard to how Mueller was reluctant to demand Trump be interviewed in person.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-republicans-expanding-investigation-into-mueller-team
"We've also expanded our investigation into the Mueller team and everything that happened with Mueller and the people at DOJ and FBI that were above Mueller. And so, we will be making criminal referrals in the coming weeks against the Mueller team. We're just now putting that together and, of course, as always, waiting on more documents that we really need to come out," the California congressman told Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on Witch Hunt: The Flynn Vindication, a special program that aired Sunday evening.
It has been more than a year since Mueller wrapped up his special counsel investigation.
Nunes says Mueller should have shut down his investigation right away, arguing that the former FBI director knew from the day he became special counsel in May 2017 that there was no coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
The House Intelligence Committee, which conducted its own Russian interference investigation when Nunes was chairman, determined there was no collusion by early 2018.
Nunes sent eight criminal referrals to the Justice Department last year, and Attorney General William Barr appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham to conduct an investigation into misconduct by the officials involved in that affair.
Democrats have decried the efforts of Barr and Durham as a play at undermining the credibility of Mueller's investigation, but Schiff and others have in recent weeks begun to open up about their frustrations with the way the special counsel conducted the Russia inquiry, particularly with regard to how Mueller was reluctant to demand Trump be interviewed in person.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-republicans-expanding-investigation-into-mueller-team
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