James A. Baker, then the FBI’s general counsel, appears on a speaking panel at Georgetown University Law Center in 2016. (CSPAN)
John Solomon, The Hill: Russia collusion bombshell: DNC lawyers met with FBI on dossier before surveillance warrant
Congressional investigators have confirmed that a top FBI official met with Democratic Party lawyers to talk about allegations of Donald Trump-Russia collusion weeks before the 2016 election, and before the bureau secured a search warrant targeting Trump’s campaign.
Former FBI general counsel James Baker met during the 2016 season with at least one attorney from Perkins Coie, the Democratic National Committee’s private law firm.
That’s the firm used by the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign to secretly pay research firm Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence operative, to compile a dossier of uncorroborated raw intelligence alleging Trump and Moscow were colluding to hijack the presidential election.
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WNU Editor: Could not have said it any better ....
.... “This is a bombshell that unequivocally shows the real collusion was between the FBI and Donald Trump’s opposition — the DNC, Hillary and a Trump-hating British intel officer — to hijack the election, rather than some conspiracy between Putin and Trump,” a knowledgeable source told me.
But the big question still remains unanswered. When did President Obama know what was happening, and what did he do when he learned about it?
Update: The Washington Post is downplaying this story .... Trump allies, offering no specifics, say former FBI official gives ‘explosive’ testimony in Russia probe (Washington Post), but admits that using an opponents opposition research to get a warrant to conduct a surveillance operation on their opponent may not be right. Sighhh .... you just cannot make this stuff up. If the shoe was on the other foot and it was the Republicans who obtained this warrant .... the Washington Post would be screaming bloody murder for years.
