Congressional Republicans said on Wednesday that former top FBI lawyer James Baker revealed to congressional investigators that the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign was conducted in an “abnormal fashion” and was carried out with “political bias.”
Lawmakers were unable to provide many details about what Baker said because of a confidentiality agreement that was put in place. Fox News reports:
However, they indicated in broad terms that Baker was cooperative and forthcoming about the genesis of the Russia case in 2016, and about the surveillance warrant application for Trump campaign aide Carter Page in October 2016.
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) called Baker’s closed-door testimony “explosive” in a statement to Fox News, saying, “This witness confirmed that things were done in an abnormal fashion. That’s extremely troubling.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) added: “During the time that the FBI was putting — that DOJ and FBI were putting together the FISA (surveillance warrant) during the time prior to the election — there was another source giving information directly to the FBI, which we found the source to be pretty explosive.”
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