Judicial Watch: FBI General Counsel Talked to Hillary Clinton's Lawyer about Comey's Letter on Weiner Laptop Clinton Emails
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 2019 /
Christian Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch announced today it received
215 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Justice revealing former FBI General Counsel James Baker discussed the investigation of Clinton-related emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop with Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall. Baker then forwarded the conversation to his FBI colleagues.
The documents also further describe a previously reported quid pro quo from the Obama State Department offering the FBI more legal attaché positions if it would downgrade a redaction in an email found during the Hillary Clinton email investigation "from classified to something else."
The newly obtained emails came in response to a May 21
order in a January 2018 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuit filed after the DOJ failed to respond to a December 4, 2017 FOIA request (
Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)). Judicial Watch seeks:
· All records of communications, including but not limited to...
