Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.

A key congressman in the investigation into all the antics of the Obama administration, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., says there likely will be criminal referrals that target members of FBI special counsel Robert Mueller's team.

"We're looking at doing criminal referrals on the Mueller team, the Mueller dossier team, the Mueller witch hunt, whatever you want to call it. That's where we are now in our investigation," Nunes told "Witch Hunt" hosted by Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett.

Mueller and his team investigated for more than two years Democrat claims of Trump 2016 campaign collusion with Russia. He concluded the evidence just wasn't there. And recently transcripts of testimony taken by the U.S. House during its own investigation revealed that key Obama administration leaders knew all along there was no evidence of collusion – even as they were talking on nightly network programs about how there was evidence.

Nunes is the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee and vowed to pursue multiple new criminal referrals amid the ongoing fallout of bombshell revelations in the Justice Department's handling of the Russia probe.

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A year ago, he sent eight criminal referrals to U.S. Attorney General William Barr alleging several 'potential violations' of the law in the course the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling and contacts with Trump advisers during the 2016 campaign, Fox reported.

"Now in the wake of the Justice Department's decision to drop charges against former Trump National Security Adviser General Michael Flynn, Nunes is turning his attention to the conduct of the special counsel, who was appointed after President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey," the report said.

Nunes revealed on the program, "We're doing a large criminal referral on the Mueller dossier team that put together a fraudulent report – that knew there was no collusion the day that Mueller walked in the door. They set an obstruction of justice trap. There's no doubt in my mind that we will make a conspiracy referral there."

In addition, the report said, Nunes wants to find out if top Obama team players at the FBI and Department of Justice were involved in the Mueller team's actions.

The lawyer on the case against Flynn, for example, "Had to know those documents existed, had to know they were working with a falsified 302 – that's a very simple criminal referral."

And there could be obstruction of Congress counts.

"We know that the House of Representatives … had multiple requests, multiple subpoenas that were out there that effectively were never answered, even though they claim they answered them. Well, now what we learned is that they lied and misled Congress by omission," Nunes said on the interview.

"They thought it was cute to just not give us things, not tell us things and say that they met the requirements," he continued. "Well, now that these documents are turning up, you know, who was guiding the redactions that were done? Who was instructing things to remain classified?

"Was that the leadership of DOJ and the FBI communicating with Mueller? And was that Mueller making that call or was that the senior leadership? Look, that's not for us to determine. That's for a U.S. attorney to determine who was lying.

"I want to see all of them held accountable for this."

The Washington Examiner noted, "Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz determined late last year the FBI made "at least 17 significant errors or omissions" in the applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants spanning from October 2016 to the summer of 2017 "that targeted former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page."

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