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James Andrew Baker is a former American government official at the Department of Justice who served as general counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and later served as deputy general counsel at Twitter, Inc. before being fired by Elon Musk in December 2022.
May 19, 2022 · James Baker, former FBI General Counsel, testified that Michael Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer, denied representing any clients when he gave the FBI information about a Trump server in 2016. Sussmann is accused of lying to Baker to hide the involvement of the Clinton campaign and the DNC in promoting the alleged link.
From 2014-2018, he was the General Counsel of the FBI. In 2018, he was a Visiting Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Lawfare Institute. From 2019-2020 he was the Director of National Security and Cybersecurity at the R Street Institute and was a legal analyst at CNN.
May 20, 2022 · Former FBI general counsel James Baker, who is easily Durham’s most important witness, told a jury about his September 2016 meeting with Sussmann, the Clinton lawyer charged with lying to the...
James A. Baker was appointed as the FBI's general counsel in 2014 by Director James B. Comey. He had a long career as a federal prosecutor, a national security official, and a private sector lawyer.
May 19, 2022 · Former FBI general counsel James Baker takes the stand in the trial of Michael Sussmann, who is accused of lying to investigators.
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Apr 9, 2019 · James Baker, the former top lawyer of the FBI, told lawmakers last fall that there were widespread concerns inside the FBI that President Donald Trump had attempted to obstruct the bureau’s...
