[Daily Caller] James Baker, the FBI’s former top lawyer, told Congress in 2018 about a series of "unusual" and "abnormal" steps he took in the early days of the bureau’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
Baker told lawmakers during testimony Oct. 4 and Oct. 18, 2018, that even though he rarely handled applications for surveillance warrants against American citizens, he reviewed one the FBI was seeking against Carter Page, the former Trump campaign adviser.
Baker, who resigned from the FBI in May 2018, also said he had a meeting Sept. 19, 2016, with a lawyer working for the DNC. The meeting was unprecedented for Baker, who told lawmakers he could not recall ever having met with an outside counsel during his FBI tenure.
That same attorney, Michael Sussmann, worked for the law firm that hired Fusion GPS, the company behind the Steele dossier. Sussmann was also peddling information related to the Trump-Russia investigation to media outlets during the same time period he was meeting with Baker.
Baker disclosed those details in testimony before a task force comprised of members of the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees. Republicans on the task force have investigated the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe, as well as its claims to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to obtain warrants against Page.
Baker defended the FBI’s handling of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant applications. He did not acknowledge his activities in the beginning stages of the FBI probe were improper or unethical.
Baker told lawmakers he normally did not handle FBI applications for surveillance warrants against American citizens, but made an exception for an application to spy on Page because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Baker said he wanted to review the initial FISA application relatively early in the process, before it reached the desk of then-FBI Director James Comey.
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Baker told lawmakers he normally did not handle FBI applications for surveillance warrants against American citizens, but made an exception for an application to spy on Page because of the sensitivity of the matter.
and because someone with ethics and integrity wouldn't have approved it
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series of "unusual" and "abnormal" steps he took in the early days of the bureau’s investigation
If "unusual and abnormal" means criminal, I'll go along with that.
below is her tweet
-The boys were protesting a woman's right to choose & yelled "it's not rape if you enjoy it"
-They were taunting 5 Black men before they surrounded Phillips and led racist chants
-Sandmann's family hired a right wing PR firm to write his non-apology 🤦🏽♀️https://t.co/fG8AUCuDTr https://t.co/bOA6yFsIjW
‐ Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 23, 2019
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Just to keep in touch with her constituency who are even worse than she.
[Freebeacon] The newly launched Kamala Harris presidential campaign is stacked with top officials from Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 campaign, including her lawyer Marc Elias.
The abundance of Clinton staffers joining Harris is unsurprising, as many went straight from the 2016 trail to work in her new senate office in 2017. Those moves were considered a signal to insiders that a presidential campaign may be in the works.
The Harris campaign announced on Monday that Elias, Clinton's top lawyer, will be its general counsel; Lily Adams, Clinton's Iowa communications director and daughter of former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, will be its national communications director; Angelique Cannon, Clinton's deputy national finance director and national finance director for Senate Majority PAC, will be its national finance director; and David Huynh, Clinton's director of delegate operations and ballot access, will be its senior adviser.
Elias was most recently in the spotlight a few months ago as the top lawyer for former Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson during the Florida recount, which ended with Republican Sen. Rick Scott holding on to his victory.
Neither Elias nor the Harris campaign responded to inquiries on whether Elias has agreed to exclusively provide legal services to her campaign, or whether he would be able to work with her potential opponents in the primary.
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...The other day, I read a description of Senators Harris and Warren as 'humorless scolds with a hall monitor complex'. Pretty much covers it.
Mike
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KH is going all out and hiring the election-riggers? What are they going to do next: come up with a fake Dossier? Recruit a cadre of bimbos to create more fiction?
[Free Beacon] Former Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the only solution to President Donald Trump’s failures of leadership would be for him to resign.
CNBC's Tania Bryer interviewed Kerry, also a former senator from Massachusetts, for a CNBC-sponsored panel called "The Future of Our Oceans." Kerry focused on climate change in a highlight video from the panel posted by CNBC, in which he blasted Trump for pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement he helped negotiate during the Obama administration.
When he was pressed on what advice he would give Trump, Kerry questioned the premise that Trump would ever listen to him.
"I can’t play that," Kerry said, stuttering. "He doesn't take any of this seriously, he doesn’t have an ability to have that kind of conversation."
"What would your message be?" Bryer asked.
"Resign," he replied after stammering for a moment. The audience applauded loudly.
Beforehand, Kerry argued that the meaninglessness of the climate accords was what made Trump foolish to pull out. Kerry explained the agreement did not impose any actual burden on the United States, and therefore Trump could have stayed in without any trouble. However, Kerry also agreed that the future of the world was hanging in the balance.
"When the president says it puts a burden on us‐no. We are assuming a de minimis level of what we ought to be doing, and the burden that is being put on the people of the world as well as the United States is the burden of ignorance to science," he said.
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Kerry explained the agreement did not impose any actual burden on the United States, and therefore Trump could have stayed in without any trouble.
No actual burden? Some other kind of burden, perhaps? Did you just admitted virtue signalling is preferable to candor? I'm stunned.
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By some fluke of business scheduling I happened to be staying at one of Kerry's campaign hotels on election night in November 2004. It was pluperfect schadenfreude.
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[IsraelTimes] Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw... says she didn’t know that accusing Israel of ’hypnotizing the world’ was offensive.
Omar — who supports the boycott Israel movement — was appointed to the House Foreign Affairs Committee last Thursday.
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she is not as goofy as AOC and she has advisors who will tell her how to walk back the more disgusting things
that last is what she is doing here
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The Jooz is accused of hypnosis!
"Oh, vilest of lies! It's atrocious,"
Say Y-hw-h and Moses,
Freud, Christian psychosis,
And Hollywood's host of hip noses!
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