Today, eleven Members of Congress made a criminal referral to the Justice Department and FBI against members of the FBI who used the unverified dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele and paid for by the Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee  to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrants to spy on the Trump campaign and presidency. The lawmakers also referred former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and others for threats made against an FBI informant who provided information on the Russian nuclear industry and the approval in 2010 to sell roughly 20 percent of American uranium mining assets to Russia. This so-called Uranium One deal was approved by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after her husband, former President Bill Clinton, received a $500,000 fee for giving a speech in Moscow and over $140 million had been donated to the Clinton Foundation by  persons who stood to benefit from the deal.

They also referred former FBI Director James Comey, Clinton, Lynch, and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for their involvement in the investigations into President Trump. FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, whose anti-Trump text messages became public last year, were also included in the referral.

They referred “all DOJ and FBI personnel responsible for signing the FISA warrant application that contained unverified and/or false information” for possible violation(s) of federal law.

The lawmakers referred to a May 2017 New York Times article which reported that Comey had leaked classified memos. They state that “Comey wrote memoranda detailing alleged conversations between himself and President Trump to document “what he perceived as the president’s improper efforts to influence a continuing investigation.” The Times article reports that Comey “created similar memos – including some that are classified – about every phone call and meeting he had with the president,” the letter states.

In his book, A Higher Loyalty, Comey admits that some of these memos contained classified material. “In light of the fact that four of the seven memos were classified, it would appear that former Director Comey leaked classified information when sharing these memos with Professor Richman”, the individual he used as a cut out between himself and the Times.

Clinton has also been referred for her role in the dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, who was hired by opposition research firm Fusion GPS. Her campaign did not reveal that it had paid for the research on its campaign finance disclosure forms. In this regard, they stated that  “A lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid Washington firm Fusion GPS to conduct research that led to the Steele dossier, according to an October 24, 2017, report in The Washington Post,” the letter states. ”Accordingly, for disguising payments to Fusion GPS on mandatory disclosures to the Federal Election Commission, we refer Hillary Clinton to DOJ for potential violation(s) of [campaign finance laws].”

Be sure to read the referral letter. It’s lengthy but chock full of fascinating material.