Posted on 05/11/2019 9:22:05 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Former FBI General Counsel James Baker admitted on Friday that he is “nervous” about DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s investigation into the conduct of the DOJ and the FBI during the Trump-Russia probe.
Sitting down with with Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes in a crowded room at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., Baker said he is “assuming that they will dig and find stuff” and that “we’ll try to sort it out and see what mistakes were made.” But Baker defended the FBI's actions, including its use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Horowitz’s investigation is particularly focused on alleged FISA abuse and the reliance on British ex-spy Christopher Steele in FISA applications targeting Trump campaign associate Carter Page. Steele’s dossier was funded in part by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign through the Perkins Coie law firm and the opposition research group Fusion GPS. The investigation is expected to finish in May or June.
Wittes said that Baker “had expressed great confidence in the way you guys conducted yourselves, in the integrity of these fundamental judgments, in the opening with respect to two separate investigations and with the respect to the handling of this FISA application.” Wittes then asked Baker: “So, how nervous are you about the IG?”
Baker said he is “always nervous about the IG," adding that “they’re coming in after the fact to look at what we did." At the time, he said, the FBI was “trying to do it in real time and having the pressure to deal with these threats as they were coming.”
Baker contended that he was “confident in the judgments that I made at the time based on the information that I had available to me.” But he left open the possibility that others may have engaged in wrongdoing...
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>>> But he left open the possibility that others may have engaged in wrongdoing... <<<
Starting with Hussein.
“...and see what mistakes were made...”
“Mistakes” my Obamahole.
You got that out before I had a chance, GOOD POST
How can one defend the so called request of the FISC to okay a warrant that was unverified and in fact was lies paid for by an American political party???
Some detectives they are if they can’t even detect that.
That’s their job! And they are contending that they are incompetent, not corrupt.
Baker, Comey, hillary, etc. hauled away in handcuffs, please. Otherwise, these stories are B-O-R-I-N-G
Why do individuals sworn to uphold the law able to call criminal acts mistakes?
We need a few “singing” RATS and then sit back and enjoy.
“We have 7 conservative and Patriotic lawyers in America?”
They all work for Judicial Watch.
Get ready to hear “mistakes were made” a million times. That is the Deep State talking point to avoid criminal charges and no doubt the GOP will carry that water for them.
Quite a conundrum
Mistakes were made, but we were just trying to protect America and there was no intent to do anything bad. We are heroes!
BOL!
Baker contended that he was “confident in the judgments that I made at the time based on the information that I had available to me.”
Ignorantia juris non excusat[1] or ignorantia legis neminem excusat[2] (Latin for “ignorance of the law excuses not”[1] and “ignorance of law excuses no one”[2] respectively) is a legal principle holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely because one was unaware of its content.
European-law countries with a tradition of Roman law may also use an expression from Aristotle translated into Latin: nemo censetur ignorare legem (nobody is thought to be ignorant of the law) or ignorantia iuris nocet (not knowing the law is harmful).
Where did you find the other six?
Wow, ya think?
We had one in the DC area, and she was a bear in court and before court.
The two instances we hired her for, ended up in a closed door meeting with the other lawyers and the dropping of their weak cases.
Our closest substitute here in California, is an old fashioned Democrat lawyer in his early 80’s. Just handing his card to some sue happy liberal lawyers and saying call my lawyer is all that is necessary. 3 of his daughters are lawyers. One is a judge and one is very liberal. The 3rd one is becoming more like her Dad everyday. He may retire and let her do her thing.
“How can one defend the so called request of the FISC to okay a warrant that was unverified and in fact was lies paid for by an American political party???e “
The intent of the SpyGate thugs was not a bad intent.
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