Former FBI Chief Legal Counsel Baker Tosses James Comey Under The Bus in Last-Ditch Effort to Save Himself

Updated 5/17/19 9:52am

Jack Crane | Opinion 

James Baker, Former-FBI General Counsel has joined Russian hoax media collaborator Michael Isikoff on his podcast, yesterday.  

Isikoff, it should be noted, allowed himself to be used like a puppet to bolster the FISA applications by repeating the contents of the Steele Dossier in his Yahoo News column as though it was original source material.

Here we have two co-conspirators alibiing for their actions:

F.B.I. Confidential(@isikoff @dklaidman Jim Baker – @SkullduggeryPod)https://t.co/8QXFvHEQtn

— PoliticsREDEF (@PoliticsRedef) May 15, 2019

Baker, who served as chief counsel to former-FBI Director James Comey during the period leading up to the initial three FISA warrants, threw his former boss under the bus during the podcast.  

Isikoff recounted the interview in yesterday’s Yahoo News column:

Senior FBI officials were concerned then director James Comey would appear to be blackmailing then President-elect Trump – using tactics notoriously associated with J.Edgar Hoover – when he attended a fateful Jan. 6, 2017, meeting at which he informed the real estate magnate about allegations he had consorted with prostitutes in Moscow, according to Jim Baker, the bureau’s chief counsel at the time.

“We were quite worried about the Hoover analogies, and we were determined not to have such a disaster happen on our watch,” said Jim Baker, then the FBI’s top lawyer in an interview with the Yahoo News podcast Skullduggery. But he and Comey determined the bureau had an obligation to tell Trump of the uncorroborated allegations because “the press has it; it’s about to come out. You should be alerted to that fact.”

Of course, counselor.  Comey has become an easy target since he is at the nexus of the intelligence community’s conspiracy but there’s just too much evidence to trust Baker when he said.

“I welcome scrutiny. I plan to fully cooperate with the department to help them figure out what happened. Because I believe what happened was lawful, at least based on every piece of information that I have.”

Uh huh.  

In the Congressional testimony Baker gave in October of 2018, the former FBI General Counsel revealed that he had been receiving information from Michael Sussmann who is…

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