Posted on 07/27/2017 2:06:07 PM PDT by PPSman
FBI General Counsel James A. Baker is purportedly under a Department of Justice criminal investigation for allegedly leaking classified national security information to the media, according to multiple government officials close to the probe who spoke with Circa on the condition of anonymity.
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It looks like his Justice Department career began under Bush 41. He took a different job with Clinton. And then he had an intelligence job with W. He took this new role in 2014.
He’s obviously has deep ties in both the FBI and intelligence, but who knows what is going on here? I have a suspicion that Scaramucci’s strategy is going to be leaking the names of all the suspected leakers. Which could out to be either brilliant or a total disaster.
“In 1996, Mr. Baker joined the former Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR), which later became part of DOJ’s National Security Division. From 2001 to 2007, Mr. Baker served as counsel for intelligence policy and head of OIPR. In this position, he developed, coordinated, and implemented national security policy with regard to intelligence and counterintelligence matters for the department. Moreover, he provided the attorney general, the U.S. intelligence community, and the White House with legal and policy advice on a range of national security issues and conducted oversight of the intelligence community, including the FBI, on behalf of the attorney general.”
Why not Comey? He admitted his crime on national TV, yet nothing.
| Washington, D.C. January 15, 2014 |
Director James B. Comey has selected James A. Baker as the FBI's general counsel. Most recently, Mr. Baker was an associate general counsel for Bridgewater Associates, LP.
After clerking for the Honorable Bernard A. Friedman in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Mr. Baker joined the Department of Justice (DOJ) with the Criminal Division through the Attorney General’s Honors Program in 1990 and worked as a federal prosecutor with the division’s Fraud Section.
In 1996, Mr. Baker joined the former Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR), which later became part of DOJ’s National Security Division. From 2001 to 2007, Mr. Baker served as counsel for intelligence policy and head of OIPR. In this position, he developed, coordinated, and implemented national security policy with regard to intelligence and counterintelligence matters for the department. Moreover, he provided the attorney general, the U.S. intelligence community, and the White House with legal and policy advice on a range of national security issues and conducted oversight of the intelligence community, including the FBI, on behalf of the attorney general.
In 2006, Mr. Baker received the George H.W. Bush Award for Excellence in counterterrorism—the CIA’s highest counterterrorism award. A year later, he received the NSA’s Intelligence Under Law Award; the NSA Director’s Distinguished Service Medal; and DOJ’s highest award— the Edmund J. Randolph Award. That same year, he became a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a lecturer at Harvard Law School. From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Baker was assistant general counsel for national security at Verizon Business. He then returned to DOJ, and from 2009 to 2011, served as an associate deputy attorney general working on a range of national security issues, including cyber security.
“Jim’s experience as a career prosecutor and as a national security official, as well his experience in the private sector, make him an excellent fit for his new position here at the FBI,” said Director Comey.
Mr. Baker holds a juris doctorate and master’s degree from the University of Michigan and is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.
If so I am really glad I didn’t have any high expectations.
The table is set Mr. Sessions, what course would you like to start with today?
Jeff hopefully has spent the last 6 months laying the groundwork for some pretty big things.
I bet he has hickies on his rear end from all of the presstitutes singing his praises the past week.
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Spattering RAT blood underway.....
Lefty lawyer swamp dweller.
Harvard. Comey. NSA. CIA. FBI General Counsel.
He should have been easy to spot from day 1.
Of course it could be that it's still the Bad Guys doing the leaking.
Interesting construction that cnn is on top, and alleged former president o-what's-his-name is in the middle.
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James Baker
James A. Baker, who serves as the FBI‘s General Counsel, is reportedly one of three people who can corroborate fired FBI Director James Comey‘s version of events in a private Oval Office meeting between Comey and President Donald Trump. Comey wrote in a memo that Trump told him to stop the federal investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. . .Baker Was Reportedly 1 of 3 People Comey Personally Told About Trump’s Flynn Investigation Request. . .It Was Baker’s Job to Ready FISA Applications for Domestic Surveillance. . .Baker Was Sent to SXSW in Comey’s Place After Trump’s Wiretapping Claims. . .
So Comey told Baker about the meeting and that is “corroboration”?
And one most will not pay attention to.
This is not the good conservative James Baker.
I know right, James Addison “Jim” Baker III was the first person to pop into my mind. Must be over 90 if he’s still alive though.
Wouldn’t that be cool if a predicted big bang for once actually went bang?
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