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FBI’s top lawyer believed Hillary Clinton should face charges, but was talked out of it
BY JOHN SOLOMON — 02/20/19 08:10 PM EST
For most of the past three years, the FBI has tried to portray its top leadership as united behind ex-Director James Comey’s decision not to pursue criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for transmitting classified information over her insecure, private email server.
Although in the end that may have been the case, we now are learning that Comey’s top lawyer, then-FBI General Counsel James Baker, initially believed Clinton deserved to face criminal charges, but was talked out of it “pretty late in the process.”
The revelation is contained in testimony Baker gave to House investigators last year. His testimony has not been publicly released, but I was permitted to review a transcript.
During questioning by Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), Baker was unequivocal about his early view that Clinton should face criminal charges.
“I have reason to believe that you originally believed it was appropriate to charge Hillary Clinton with regard to violations of law — various laws, with regard to mishandling of classified information. Is that accurate?” Ratcliffe, a former federal prosecutor, asked Baker.
Baker paused to gain his lawyer’s permission to respond, and then answered, “Yes.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/430881-fbis-top-lawyer-believed-hillary-clinton-should-face-charges-but-was
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Former FBI general counsel thought Hillary Clinton should be prosecuted until 'pretty late' in email investigation
Catherine Herridge Fox News
The FBI's top lawyer in 2016 thought Hillary Clinton and her team should have immediately realized they were mishandling "highly classified" information based on the obviously sensitive nature of the emails' contents sent through her private server. And he believed she should have been prosecuted until "pretty late" in the investigation, according to a transcript of his closed-door testimony before congressional committees last October.
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Asked by Fox News in December whether he had mishandled classified information, and whether the FBI had conducted a classified containment operation after Comey sent the memos to his lawyers to limit the spill of information, Comey declined to answer.
"I'm not going to talk about something like that," Comey answered. "I'm not going to talk about it one way or another."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-fbi-general-counsel-thought-hillary-clinton-should-be-prosecuted-until-pretty-late-in-email-investigation