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Former FBI general counsel James Baker has reportedly ‘flipped’
@jackPosobiec ^ | 10/25/2019 | Jack Posobiec

Posted on 10/25/2019 12:22:03 PM PDT by outpostinmass2

BREAKING: Former FBI general counsel James Baker has reportedly ‘flipped’ and is now cooperating with the Barr-Durham investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation - @OANN


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fbi; jamesbaker; russianhoax
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To: outpostinmass2

141 posted on 10/25/2019 1:49:25 PM PDT by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: outpostinmass2
This makes sense and is most likely true.

Durham was investigating Baker for leaking the Trump dossier to Mother Jones before he was tasked to look into Russiagate. Durham is most likely ready to charge Baker for that crime, and used it as leverage to get him to cooperate in the Russiagate investigation.

The fact that Bakers cooperating has come to light is most likely a result of the investigation turning into a criminal investigation.
142 posted on 10/25/2019 1:53:18 PM PDT by MMaschin (The difference between strategy and tactics!)
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To: Magnum44

First one in always gets the best deal. That doesn’t mean no conviction, no jail. It means, generally, a lesser sentence based on cooperation. Baker is a lawyer - he knows the score. If this is true, it was a good move for him and for accountability.


143 posted on 10/25/2019 1:53:48 PM PDT by JGPhila
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To: DiogenesLamp

Love that scene, the part I like even better is where he says: what are you planning on doing in your next career Eliot because I was the one who hired you and you have thirty days notice.


144 posted on 10/25/2019 1:54:30 PM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: Magnum44

145 posted on 10/25/2019 1:54:54 PM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: outpostinmass2

you have to wonder what Jeff Sessions is thinking today. His selfishness and refusal to get out of the way/resign has caused so much grief.......


146 posted on 10/25/2019 1:55:18 PM PDT by GotMojo
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To: Magnum44

Criminal crap.


147 posted on 10/25/2019 1:55:58 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Magnum44

EPOCH TIMES has a great, inclusive, Spygate infographic. Includes this info:

James Baker was the most senior counsel at the FBI. He was a member of the “insurance policy” group, that worked closely with Andrew McCabe.

He was demoted and reassigned on December 20, 2017, before resigning on May 4, 2018. After leaving the FBI, he joined the Brookings Institution and began an affiliated appointment with the Lawfare Institute.

Baker was in contact with Michael Sussmann of Perkins Coie and political journalist David Corn of Mother Jones.


148 posted on 10/25/2019 1:57:00 PM PDT by euclid216
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To: GotMojo

He should never have been appointed in the first place. The man had the work ethic of a U.S. Senator. Sessions was Trump’s biggest mistake.


149 posted on 10/25/2019 1:57:43 PM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: euclid216

Baker was in contact with Michael Sussmann of Perkins Coie

If it is so that he is flipped, there will be another bunch of a holes snapping in DC and Seattle this evening.


150 posted on 10/25/2019 2:00:58 PM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: GotMojo
you have to wonder what Jeff Sessions is thinking today. His selfishness and refusal to get out of the way/resign has caused so much grief.......

He's thinking "Gee that check from George Soros certainly allowed me to buy a big beach house."


151 posted on 10/25/2019 2:02:00 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: GotMojo

Sessions started this. Barr is the Hammer.


152 posted on 10/25/2019 2:03:38 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Freedom, if you can keep it)
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To: outpostinmass2

First in line gets the best deal. Sort of a FIFO situation


153 posted on 10/25/2019 2:04:54 PM PDT by wildbill
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To: HotHunt
Siddd-Blumenthho
154 posted on 10/25/2019 2:05:18 PM PDT by timestax
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To: DoodleDawg

http://www.conservativehq.com/node/30250

According to The Washington Examiner’s Daniel Chaitin, 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.

Baker, who admitted last week the inspector general makes him “nervous,” said the government watchdog will probably find some errors reports Chaitin.

“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.

To us Baker sounds like an insider attempting to get out in front of a story he knows is going to go against him. And that begs the question, given U.S. attorney John Durham’s reputation for uncovering and prosecuting FBI corruption in the Bolger case, which one of the Spygate rats is going to flip first?


155 posted on 10/25/2019 2:05:27 PM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: outpostinmass2

He/she/it that flips first flips best.


156 posted on 10/25/2019 2:05:31 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet
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To: RetiredTexasVet

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ex-top-fbi-lawyer-james-baker-rumors-trump-is-quashing-doj-fbi-investigations

Baker said Trump’s intimidation tactics against the FBI are “very dangerous,” but believes that the career officials at the bureau are highly resilient and are going to “resist” Trump as much as they can.


157 posted on 10/25/2019 2:08:21 PM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: Magnum44

If there was a flow chart of those in the FBI that played a part he would be at or toward the top though.


158 posted on 10/25/2019 2:20:25 PM PDT by Tammy8
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To: Responsibility2nd
Baker has more than enough dirt to spill on McCabe and Comey to put them both in the slammer. Maybe Mueller too who had to know or at least should have known his prosecutors were unethical. Only one rat is getting a free pass and Baker the lawyer knew that. If I am James Clapper right now I am going to give up Brennan and Obama, half the White House staff and my second born son just so I will be allowed conjugal visits in prison. Brennan needs to use one of his fake CIA passports to get to his retirement villa Sochi. Obama the puppet master is of course beyond the reach of any prosecutor. The same does not apply to Susan Rice or the other White House staffers involved.
159 posted on 10/25/2019 2:20:54 PM PDT by your other brother
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To: outpostinmass2

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160 posted on 10/25/2019 2:27:14 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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