Devin Nunes: Mueller team has evidence that would be thrown out in court
by Daniel Chaitin
| January 24, 2019 12:30 PM
Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Thursday that certain evidence obtained by special counsel Robert Mueller would be thrown out if ever taken to court.
During an interview on Fox News, Nunes was asked about recent leaks of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr's testimony last year before Congress.
Ohr told investigators that he acted as a back channel between certain FBI officials and Christopher Steele, the author of the Trump dossier. He also said he believes he not only briefed senior Justice Department personnel, including lawyer Zainab Ahmad and fraud unit head Andrew Weissmann who now work for Mueller, but also informed them that the information he took from Steele was likely biased and unproven.
Steele's dossier, which contains unverified claims about Trump's ties to Russia, was then used by the FBI to obtain the authority to spy on a Trump campaign official who had suspicious ties to Russia.
"You have two people that are currently on the special counsel that were in the chain," Nunes said. "They were taking evidence that now they're using."
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