The FBI's top lawyer was torn over what to do when FBI Director James Comey asked in 2016 whether he should inform Congress that the bureau was reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.
FBI General Counsel James Baker had been told that FBI agents discovered between 600,000 and 1 million emails on disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s laptop relating to Clinton. The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee’s top aide, Huma Abedin, was married to Weiner, who was being investigated for sending illicit texts to an underage girl.
Baker, who left the FBI in May 2018, told author David Rohde that he felt like the “fates had thrown him a hundred-mile-an-hour fastball.”
Baker “believed it was likely that the FBI could find new evidence of wrongdoing by Clinton,” Rohde wrote in his recently released book, In Deep: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America’s “Deep State.”
“She wins the election, we go to DOJ, and we recommend that they indict her before she becomes president,” Baker said, describing his nightmare scenario. “That’s not a good place for the country. That’s not a good place for the FBI.”
Baker also worried that the bureau’s credibility would be damaged if Comey did not inform Congress.
“I thought, ‘What is best for the law enforcement and judicial system?’” he said. “I said, 'I thought the director had an obligation to notify Congress.' Director Comey agreed with my advice.”
Comey told Congress of the new findings less than two weeks before the 2016 election, sending letters to the chairmen and chairwomen and ranking members of the eight committees that investigated Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
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Baker said, "I thought, What is best for the law enforcement and judicial system?" Well, apparently that was to let Hillary skate freely. Baker was not thinking about what was best for the Nation,, but about the judicial system. He was concerned about the EFFECT that the TRUTH would have on the FBI, and that would be harmful to the country. It seems that principles go out the window when the system is more important than the service it supposedly provides. Equally, of course.
No. Much like the big corporations the government is too big to fail, even though it is failing, consistently, and that is about the only thing one can depend on.
It is notable that Thomas Jefferson remarked in one of his many letters that the public at large cannot be counted upon to make intelligent decisions. However, one can certainly rely on the evidence that the public can be persuaded that up is not up, that right is only an opinion, and that personal security promises are the best boards in a political platform. Hence, the democrat party.
Letting Hillary skate has led to the fact that she is free to accept the nomination for President of the United States if the DNC would only back her. And, with the obvious demented mental state of Biden, that remains a distinct possibility. So, what is more harmful to the country than that?