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Top FBI officials were quite worried @Comey would appear to be blackmailing Trump news.yahoo.com/top-fbi-offici… via @Yahoo
Senior FBI officials were concerned Comey would appear to be blackmailing President-elect Trump – using tactics associated w/J.Edgar Hoover – when he attended the 1/6/17 meeting where he told Trump about allegations he consorted with prostitutes in Moscow, according to Jim Baker
“We were quite worried about the Hoover analogies, and we were determined not to have such a disaster happen on our watch,” said Jim Baker, then the FBI’s top lawyer in an interview with the Yahoo News podcast Skullduggery.
But he and Comey determined the bureau had an obligation to tell Trump of the uncorroborated allegations because “the press has it (because they made sure it was leaked🙄) it’s about to come out. You should be alerted to that fact.”
In the podcast interview, Baker also pledged to cooperate with a new investigation into the origins of the Russia probe, emphasizing that he believes he and his FBI colleagues did nothing wrong.
“I welcome scrutiny,” said Baker. “I plan to fully cooperate with the department to help them figure out what happened. Because I believe what happened was lawful, at least based on every piece of information that I have.”
