Ex-top FBI lawyer: 'Gratuitous' to name Dems who funded Steele dossier in Carter Page FISA applications
by Jerry Dunleavy
& Daniel Chaitin
| May 10, 2019 11:43 AM
| Updated May 10, 2019, 01:57 PM
The FBI's former top lawyer defended the bureau's controversial surveillance warrant applications against a member of President Trump's 2016 campaign.
As general counsel, James Baker said he "wanted the burden on me to a significant degree" in preparing the paperwork to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants to wiretap one-time Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
In front of a packed room at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., Baker was prompted to discuss the Trump dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele. The research was cited in the warrant applications, despite being largely unverified, and has become a flashpoint with GOP investigators who allege the FBI misled the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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