Posted on 10/03/2018 7:56:46 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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.
The dossier, though mostly unverified, was then used by the FBI as the main evidence seeking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant targeting the Trump campaign in the final days of the campaign.
The revelation was confirmed both in contemporaneous evidence and testimony secured by a joint investigation by Republicans on the House Judiciary and Government Oversight committees, my source tells me.
It means the FBI had good reason to suspect the dossier was connected to the DNC’s main law firm and was the product of a Democratic opposition-research effort to defeat Trump — yet failed to disclose that information to the FISA court in October 2016, when the bureau applied for a FISA warrant to surveil Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
“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.
Baker was interviewed by lawmakers behind closed doors on Wednesday. Sources declined to divulge his testimony, other than to say it confirmed other evidence about the contact between the Perkins Coie law firm and the FBI.
The sources also said Baker’s interview broke new ground both about the FBI’s use of news media in 2016 and 2017 to further the Trump case and about Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s conversations in spring 2017 regarding possible use of a body wire to record Trump.
“The interview was one of the most productive we had and it opened up many new investigative leads,” one source said.
Another said Baker could not answer some questions about FBI media contacts, citing an ongoing investigation by the Justice Department inspector general into alleged illegal leaks, during and after the election, about the Trump collusion probe and other matters.
These revelations illustrate anew how much the FBI and Justice Department have withheld from the public about their collaboration and collusion with clearly partisan elements of the Clinton campaign and the DNC, Fusion and Steele, that were trying to defeat Trump.
The growing body of evidence that the FBI used mostly politically-motivated, unverified intelligence from an opponent to justify spying on the GOP nominee’s campaign — just weeks before Election Day — has prompted a growing number of Republicans to ask President Trump to declassify the rest of the FBI’s main documents in the Russia collusion case.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), House Freedom Caucus leaders Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), veteran investigator Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and many others have urged the president to act on declassification even as FBI and Justice Department have tried to persuade the president to keep documents secret.
Ryan has said he believes the declassification will uncover potential FBI abuses of the FISA process. Jordan said he believes there is strong evidence the bureau misled the FISA court. Nunes has said the FBI intentionally hid exculpatory evidence from the judges.
And Meadows told The Hill’s new morning television show, Rising, on Wednesday that there is evidence the FBI had sources secretly record members of the Trump campaign.
“There’s a strong suggestion that confidential human sources actually taped members within the Trump campaign,” Meadows told Hill.TV hosts Krystal Ball and Ned Ryun.
John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work over the years has exposed U.S. and FBI intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal scientists’ misuse of foster children and veterans in drug experiments, and numerous cases of political corruption. He is The Hill’s executive vice president for video.
It seems like every time their is something corrupt, illegal and/or related to the coup against the American people we find Perkins Coie right there in the middle of it.
A Law Firm of criminal seditionists.
President has been vociferously proclaiming at the rallies the Democrat Party of crime. Could be just this he has in mind. Just like Kavanaugh they falsely accuse him.
Maybe this is why the 9:30am presser tomorrow? Early enough were half the country won’t be paying attention yet?
I remember Rosenstein’s announcement of Mueller’s indictment of Russian company meddling — some which were not even in existence during 2016 — was in the afternoon.
This can’t be allowed to slide.
These scumbags need to go to prison or something else needs to happen.
Come on....
Its been sooooo long.
I want to be washed in their tears again.
Ping me when one of these human slugs has their govt issue Swingline stapler confiscated.
But isn’t that the FeebEye’s job?
To be the Democrat Party’s hired gun?
Yep I hope, but it is The Hill not Gateway Pundit so hope abides.
Watergate to the 13th power...now what?
If it does not make the MSM news cycle, then it did not happen.
How can this be conveyed to the nation, what the choir already knows?
Thx!
No controlling legal authority or significant media outlet. “If a tree falls in the forest . . .”
whole article based on “my source tells me” ... more nonsense being pawned off as “news” ...
....but this info could damage “national security” ! [/sarc]
Maybe RosenWeasel thinks he has finally GOT TRUMP just where he wants him....
Omorosa comes immediately to mind.
it’s always been clear that this case is bigger than watergate and involved weaponized use of government agencies to try to steal an election on behalf of a corrupt AF war criminal b-itch and the Soviet sucking DNC.
Ah, Remember when they ridiculed Trump for saying OBama recorded his campaign...
$$ is gone forever though, defending themselves
And lives already ruined
Reminds me of Tawana Bradley case if that was her name
Destroy now. Worry about facts much much later
*If*, and when, the heads start rolling, not even the MSM will be able to cover it up. Big names will go down, and in a big way.
Brawly;-)
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