Nunes said Sunday that he plans to submit criminal referrals to the Justice Department regarding information found in newly declassified FBI messages from Peter Strzok.
Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday he plans to make new criminal referrals to the Justice Department following the release of internal FBI messages from the account of Peter Strzok, the top FBI investigator on Crossfire Hurricane.
In an interview on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," Nunes said the messages, which the Justice Department and FBI declassified earlier this month, should have been provided to Congress years ago when Republicans began investigating whether the FBI abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in order to surveil Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
The messages in question are from Strzok's Lync account, the FBI's internal messaging system.
Strzok sent a message to another FBI employee on Sept. 23, 2016, asserting that former British spy Christopher Steele had spoken to a news outlet regarding a dossier he compiled on Donald Trump in order to "Influence" the FBI's investigation.
Nunes did not identify who he plans to refer for criminal investigation, but he asserted that Justice Department and FBI officials lied to Congress regarding the existence of documents like the latest batch of Strzok messages.
"We sat in meetings with DOJ and FBI and they sat there and stone cold said 'Oh, there's no more information, there's no more text messages,'" Nunes said, adding that "These were the text messages that we really needed to run a proper investigation."
Monday, December 21, 2020
Nunes plans criminal referrals following release of Strzok's internal FBI messages
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