Thursday, February 21, 2019

A press blackout on news top FBI lawyer James Baker wanted Hillary Clinton prosecuted

So the news is out that then-FBI Director James Comey did indeed have some credible prosecutors for Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified documents during her stint as Secretary of State, passing around some of the U.S. government's most secret documents on an illegal private account attached to a server in some guy's bathroom.
"No reasonable prosecutor" would take the case, Comey intoned, who then let the former Secretary of State and then-presidential candidate completely off the hook.

Actually, there was one, at least one, and he was sitting right next to Comey, none other than FBI General Counsel James Baker, who admitted in congressional testimony that he did think Clinton's dishonest act merited prosecution.
According to Fox News's Catherine Herridge:
The FBI's top lawyer in 2016 thought Hillary Clinton and her team should have immediately realized they were mishandling "highly classified" information based on the obviously sensitive nature of the emails' contents sent through her private server. And he believed she should have been prosecuted until "pretty late" in the investigation, according to a transcript of his closed-door testimony before congressional committees last October.
Former FBI general counsel James Baker said high-level officials at the bureau were "arguing about" whether to bring charges against Clinton, "I think, up until the end" -- and he initially thought Clinton's behavior was "alarming" and "appalling."
Pursuant to the "statutes that we were considering at the time," Baker told lawmakers, it was "the nature and scope of the classified information that, to me, initially, when I looked at it, I thought these folks should know that this stuff is classified, that it was alarming what they were talking about, especially some of the most highly classified stuff.”
Fox News has confirmed portions of the congressional transcript of Baker's remarks. Baker's testimony was considered credible by those in the room.


https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/a_press_blackout_on_news_top_fbi_lawyer_james_baker_wanted_hillary_clinton_prosecuted.html

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