Posted on 06/16/2020 1:15:33 PM PDT by CaptainK
Twitter announced Monday that it has hired the former FBI lawyer who approved key steps taken during the investigation into the Trump campaign, including the decisions to surveil former campaign aide Carter Page and to use an FBI agent to secretly monitor Michael Flynn during a national security briefing for the campaign.
James Baker will serve as deputy general counsel of Twitter, said Sean Edgett, the general counsel of the social media company.
Baker “is committed to our core principles of an open internet and freedom of expression,” Edgett said in a statement. Baker “brings experience navigating complex, global issues with a principled approach.”
Baker joins Twitter amid a battle with President Donald Trump over censorship of conservative users of the platform.
Trump signed an executive order on May 28 that calls to remove social media companies’ shield against liability if they engage in censorship. He took the step after Twitter fact-checked two of Trump’s tweets regarding mail-in voting ballots.
As the FBI’s top attorney, Baker reviewed and approved decisions that the bureau took during Crossfire Hurricane, the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign.
A Justice Department inspector general’s report on the investigation said that Baker approved the decision to seek Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Page, who served on the Trump campaign’s foreign policy team.
“Baker told us that he also remembered being satisfied at the time that there was probable cause articulated in the draft application to believe that Carter Page was an agent of a foreign power,” the IG report says. (RELATED: Steele Dossier Played A ‘Central And Essential Role’ In Decision To Seek FISA)
The IG ultimately found that the FBI committed at least 17 “significant” errors and omissions in its applications to surveil Page. Many of the omissions involved the Steele dossier.
The FBI relied heavily on information from Christopher Steele, a former British spy hired by the Clinton campaign and by the Democratic National Committee to investigate the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia.
Nauseating.
The attacks on us and Trump continue, unabated.
When are they going to hire Jamie Gorelick as well?
A reward by the deep state for his loyal service.
Like flies on shit
WE MUST GET OFF TWITTER. These are the people who control the information. Control the information... control the world.
They REALLY want “Net Neutrality”.
Makes you wonder their real motivation other than World Control.
The message being sent: Break the law, violate innocent peoples rights, even put them in prison if need be just to hurt Trump and the left will take care of you. No charges will be filed and you will get paid.
Apple and google ban any competitors from being offered in their app stores. The situation of the early 2000s, where the right had a voice thanks to the internet and the left had no way to block them will never be allowed to return as long as the left controls all of the supposedly neutral platorms.
Isn’t Baker one of Durham’s targets??
>> When are they going to hire Jamie Gorelick as well?
Trump should hire her to finish building the wall.
“Twitter announced Monday that it has hired the former FBI lawyer “
Can you say “PAY OFF” ?
How many other criminal Obama Bots have received the same from Big Tech, Big Wall Street, Big Education and Big Nonprofits?
“A reward by the deep state for his loyal service.“
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Yes, it’s nothing more than a high paying SINECURE rewarded for his work for the Derp State/Globalist coalition.
I think so. I hope so.
He’s as corrupt as the 6-corporate cyberbullies at ebay who sexually harassed some bloggers who’d posted negative reviews of ebay services.
Point being when there are known ethical lapses (same with Hillary Clinton) you don’t hire them.
Any non-connected person would be red-flagged and never brought in.
All unprosecuted, no consequences. Only emboldened and more arrogant. This is exactly why these animals should have been charged in 2017.
The guy is a Real communist and dangerous Village idiot Jared is there .
Javanka will sink Trump .
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exactly
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