What makes this story interesting is the question of how this fellow can afford such a lawyer, plus the parallels with yet another Trump "scandal". Recall how Trump promised to pay the legal fees of any his supporters who got in trouble for physically dealing with a disruptor? Why isn't this getting the same attention as it may involve Hillary,
"A high-priced Washington, D.C. attorney who represented a key figure in the “FileGate” controversy — one of the many scandals that marred the Bill Clinton White House — is back in the thick of another Clinton imbroglio, this time as the lawyer for John Bentel, a former State Department information technology official who is refusing to talk to Congress about Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
Bentel’s hiring of the Clinton-era lawyer — Randy Turk, of the firm Baker Botts — raises questions about whether the Clintons are working behind the scenes to ensure that people with potentially damaging information remain under their control, one longtime Clinton watcher says.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has also questioned Clintonworld over whether it is covering legal expenses for others involved in the Clinton email scandal. In November, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Clinton’s attorney and those of several of her aides asking whether Clinton is paying their legal bills.
“It’s the exact same playbook,” Citizens United president David Bossie told The Daily Caller of the similarities between the Clinton operations of the 1990s and today.
It was 1995 when Turk was hired by Craig Livingstone, who then served as head of personnel security at the White House. A former bar bouncer and campaign advance man with no personnel security experience to his name, Livingstone was accused of improperly obtaining more than 900 FBI files in 1993 and 1994 of former Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administration officials.
Republicans at the time accused the Clintons of using the records — which the FBI said were turned over in error — to compile an enemies list. Then-first lady Hillary Clinton was also accused of having viewed the files and of having pushed to hire Livingstone, charges which she denied.
One question asked during the scandal was who was paying Livingstone’s legal bills. “And why?” asked New York Times columnist William Safire.
In 1997, it emerged — thanks to a subpoena from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee — that the Clintons had set up a legal defense fund for Livingstone. Fifty-five of the first couple’s allies and friends pitched in $9,550 to help defray Livingstone’s legal expenses.
Bentel may soon be the target of a subpoena as well."
http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/15/filegate-attorney-represents-state-dept-tech-official-who-is-silent-on-hillary-server/#ixzz431CFPZVO
