Posted on 05/14/2019 11:14:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former FBI General Counsel James Baker said on Monday he expects the Justice Department inspector general to find "mistakes" committed by the bureau in its handling of the Trump-Russia investigation.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz is examining the Justice Department's and FBI's compliance with legal requirements as well as policies and procedures in applications filed with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court related to onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Baker, who admitted last week the inspector general makes him "nervous," said the government watchdog will probably find some errors.
"The inspector general is looking at everything we did," Baker said on CNN. "If the IG usually finds mistakes that we made, so I expect him to find mistakes this time."
Baker said last week at an event in Washington, D.C., that he took a leading role in overseeing the FISA warrant applications to obtain the authority to spy on Page. Baker said on Monday he does not believe there was any intent from the people he worked with to do "anything wrong or illegal," including politically motivated spying.
Baker was appointed FBI general counsel in January 2014 and reassigned by FBI Director Christopher Wray in December 2017. Last year, it was reported that Baker was resigning, and since has written for Lawfare and joined the R Street Institute.
Attorney General William Barr has said he expects Horowitz to complete his investigation in late May or June. A particular issue in the investigation is the FBI's reliance on an unverified dossier in the FISA warrant application process.
“”Mistakes were made........................ “”
without intent...................
Oops.
It was a freak’en coup Baker....we are not blind.
Willful “mistakes”, negligence, lies and outright partisan bias.
I believe Richard Nixon said this during Watergate and I don’t think the “press”, Democrats or the “Establishment” cut him one iota of slack. I expect they’ll react the same way to the FBI’s intentional “mistakes”.
Doing his best to CYA.......
Mistakes were made
but not by me.
They acted upon their biases.
We need more training.
He's just flat out wrong or lying.
You get that line a lot from murderers, too. “I made a mistake. Made some bad choices. It’ll be all better next time.” Hang them.
If you work at this level, you do not make mistakes. I noticed NPR had him out this morning so There must be some ugly news about to drop.
I can understand Mr. Bakers concerns. I don’t think even a day in prison would be easy.
2018:
Former FBI lawyer [Baker]: Plot to record, remove Trump not a joke
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3694929/posts
Mistakes - honest mistakes - are forgivable.
Purposeful abuse of the system, involving purposeful, partisan-driven violations of the rights of American citizens while using public resources - that is not forgivable.
Baker knows that the “mistakes” are of the latter variety, and is just trying to put a spin on things to take off some of the heat. However, I’m reasonably certain that several of the players in this subversion of the last Presidential election and the subsequent, related, coup will end up becoming Durham’s bitches, err, snitches.
The same exact phrase communists use when forced to acknowledge catastrophe.
.... 4 times in a row. Could happen to anybody.
Premeditated government sanctioned political espionage is not a mistake.
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