As he awaits a response to his lawsuit against @DevinCow and others, Trump ally and House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Sunday hinted at criminal referrals he said he was prepared to send to Attorney General William Barr.
“There’s only two or three reporters involved in this, and so it wouldn’t be hard to get to the bottom of,” Nunes said of the what he called a “global leak referral” he’d send to Barr, one out of a total of eight referrals he detailed in an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
He said five separate referrals would address “specific” alleged criminal violations based on “lying, leaking, and misleading Congress,” and that two more would address alleged conspiracies, one for “FISA abuse and other matters,” and another for “manipulation of intelligence.”
Nunes implied in the interview that he’d waited two and a half years to send the referrals to the Justice Department because there wasn’t “a grown-up” leading the department.
“We’ve been working so hard for two and a half years, waiting for a real attorney general, which we have now in attorney general Barr, a grown-up is finally in the room, which is why we’re prepared to do a lot of cleanup here,” he said.
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned on Nov. 7, 2018 — though he recused himself from Russia-related matters much earlier, in March 2017 — leaving Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to lead the department until the Senate confirmation of current Attorney General William Barr in February.
Nunes details criminal referrals he says he'll send to AG Barr, including a "global leak referral." pic.twitter.com/eTCvPISCId
— Matt Shuham (@mattshuham) April 7, 2019
H/t CNN.
Barr has enough problems without making himself even more of a hack.
I don’t see how this lessons the crush of traffic on highway 41 during rush hour just north of Fresno, but I guess somebody needs to deal with global leakage.
Is it any wonder he Nunes gets hammered on twitter. Just look at the target rich environment he set up with today’s ruminations.
So how long do you think it should take for Pelosi to send Barr a criminal referral on Nunes incredibly corrupt behavior in the last Congress ? What a joke.
You want to know what’s really suspicious about the FISA warrants on Carter Page?
They were granted, starting in 2014, ended in spring 2016, and restarted in Oct 2016.
In other words Page was under FISA surveillance EXCEPT during the time when he worked for the Trump campaign.
Why was a FISA warrant excluded during this critical time period?