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Congressional investigators have confirmed that a top FBI official met with Democratic Party lawyers to talk about allegations of Donald Trump-Russia collusion weeks before the 2016 election, and before the bureau secured a search warrant targeting Trump's campaign.
Former FBI general counsel James Baker met during the 2016 season with at least one attorney from Perkins Coie, the Democratic National Committee's private law firm.
That's the firm used by the DNC and
Hillary Clinton's campaign to
secretly pay research firm Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence operative, to compile a dossier of uncorroborated raw intelligence alleging Trump and Moscow were colluding to hijack the presidential election.
The dossier, though mostly unverified, was then
used by the FBI as the main evidence seeking a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant targeting the Trump campaign in the final days of the campaign.
The revelation was confirmed both in contemporaneous evidence and testimony secured by a joint investigation by Republicans on the House Judiciary and Government Oversight committees, my source tells me.
Comment: Dems are no longer attempting to hide behind a cloak of objectivity, and certainly neither is the media. MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle (whose own Twitter feed is choked with anti-Trump tweets) has freely admitted that the media is 'going after Kavanaugh', noting that the debacle has provided a distraction from Mueller's Russiagate farce.