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REPORT: Top FBI Lawyer is Under Investigation for Allegedly Leaking Classified Information
Target Liberty ^ | Wenzek | Robert

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201707; braking; circa; fbi; fbigeneralcounsel; jamesabaker; jamesbaker; jamescomey; leaker; leakers; leaking; leakinvestigation; leaks; sessions; spying; trump
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1 posted on 07/27/2017 2:06:07 PM PDT by PPSman
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This seems to be the announcement.


2 posted on 07/27/2017 2:07:32 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: PPSman

a leak about an attorney who is a leaker...did he leak his own story ? maybe...


3 posted on 07/27/2017 2:08:36 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: PPSman

And so it begins.


4 posted on 07/27/2017 2:08:42 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Did he meet with the Russians?!

Did he have lunch with them?!

Green eggs and ham, perhaps?!

Or is this something real, where there is a trail of proof of actual misconduct? Just wondering...


5 posted on 07/27/2017 2:08:57 PM PDT by robroys woman
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I presume he’s not related to former Reagan / Bush cabinet member James A. Baker III [?]


6 posted on 07/27/2017 2:09:02 PM PDT by rfp1234 (DinosorosExtinction)
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re> who spoke with Circa on the condition of anonymity..

A leaker leaking on a leaker. The swamp is yuge.

7 posted on 07/27/2017 2:09:08 PM PDT by IC Ken
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To: ifinnegan

So this is the big bang for 7/27?


8 posted on 07/27/2017 2:10:47 PM PDT by thinden
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RE:”.... according to multiple government officials close to the probe who spoke with Circa on the condition of anonymity.”

...who are Leaking this investigation.....Oh brother.

The Media must be on everyone's phone's contact lists in DC

9 posted on 07/27/2017 2:10:54 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Message to Trump : I am not tired of winning yet. Please more winning ! Get your crap together fast!)
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Falsely getting FISA warrants.


10 posted on 07/27/2017 2:11:07 PM PDT by ebshumidors
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I'm getting more than a little sick at seeing Washington insiders get away with behavior with classified information that, had I done while on active duty, I'd still be in prison.
11 posted on 07/27/2017 2:13:11 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney
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To: PPSman

bump


12 posted on 07/27/2017 2:14:25 PM PDT by Guenevere
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So, this is a leak about a leaker who leaked, but not the leaker we were expecting?.................................


13 posted on 07/27/2017 2:15:08 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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Bttt.

5.56mm


14 posted on 07/27/2017 2:15:34 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: ifinnegan

Another leaker about a leaker that needs to be identified by Scaramucci or Sessions.

What we need to see (in time for the evening news) are full-color, hi-def videos of these leakers doing the perp walk in chains into the nearest slammer. Yeah, I know... they’ll probably censor the body cavity searches and the anti-lice hose showers.


15 posted on 07/27/2017 2:15:47 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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James A. Baker (government attorney)

James A. Baker is an American government official at the Department of Justice, serving as General Counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).[1] He also teaches at Harvard Law School. . .

He joined the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice as a federal prosecutor during the Clinton administration. In 1996 he joined Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR). This government agency handles all Justice Department requests for surveillance authorizations under the terms of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, advises the Attorney General and all major intelligence-gathering agencies on legal issues relating to national security and surveillance, and "coordinates" the views of the intelligence community regarding intelligence legislation.[2] Baker has often testified before Congress on behalf of Clinton and Bush administration intelligence policies, including defending The Patriot Act before the House Judiciary Committee.[3][4]

In 1998 was promoted to Deputy Counsel for Intelligence Operations. From May 2001 he served as Acting Counsel, and in January 2002 was appointed Counsel. In January 2014, he was appointed General Counsel of the FBI. . .

In 2004, according to The Washington Post, Baker was responsible for the discovery that "the government's failure to share information" regarding the NSA electronic surveillance program had "rendered useless a federal screening system" insisted upon by the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to prevent "tainted information"—in U.S. case law, fruit of the poisonous tree—from being used before the court. Baker was reported to have informed presiding federal judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the FISC, whose complaints to the Justice Department led to the temporary suspension of the NSA program.[5]

In 2007, according to The Washington Post, Baker revealed that he had informed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales "about mistakes the FBI has made or problems or violations or compliance incidents" prior to Gonzales' April 2005 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee that ""There has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse" after 2001.[6]

16 posted on 07/27/2017 2:15:56 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: sickoflibs
The Media must be on everyone's phone's contact lists in DC

The DC pols don't have to CALL the media, they just reach over and 'touch' them.


17 posted on 07/27/2017 2:17:38 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: PPSman

Democrats are Democrats first.

They will harm the US to protect fellow Democrats.

This isn’t some clerk in the military.

This is a highly educated and highly experienced person concerning secure information.


18 posted on 07/27/2017 2:18:41 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Sessions begins the preparatory artillery barrage.


19 posted on 07/27/2017 2:19:27 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: ifinnegan

Kaboom...there goes your law license...


20 posted on 07/27/2017 2:19:34 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (You for avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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