WHAT DO COMEY, BAKER, THE CIA AND FBI HAVE IN COMMON?
by Sharon Rondeau
(Dec. 21, 2017) — A Fox News report on Wednesday identified FBI General Counsel James A. Baker as having accompanied FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to a seven-hour-long grilling in front of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) on Tuesday.
Baker is the same individual identified by Obama birth certificate investigator Mike Zullo as having received copious documentation from former NSA and CIA contractor Dennis Montgomery approximately two and one-half years ago concerning government cyber-breaches of thousands of Americans’ personal information without a warrant.
According to Montgomery’s attorney, former federal prosecutor Larry Klayman, personal data on Donald Trump, his family members and some of his employees was collected by the U.S. intelligence community. Klayman additionally reported that NSA and CIA “hacking” of the personal information of 156 federal judges; U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts; Zullo, Klayman, and a number of prominent American businessmen was conducted with the knowledge of former CIA Director John Brennan.
In a January 3, 2017 video, Klayman said that he accompanied Montgomery to the FBI, which provided Montgomery with two immunity agreements in exchange for his testimony.
On June 5, Klayman filed a lawsuit against former FBI Director James Comey, the past and present directors of the NSA and CIA, and other government defendants, citing eight causes of action and a demand for a jury trial. Two weeks later, Klayman filed a Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to order that the Defendants cease “(1) illegally and unconstitutionally spying on and surveilling millions of Americans, including Plaintiffs, without probable cause or a warrant, and (2) destroying evidence of illegal and unconstitutional spying turned over to Defendant Comey and the FBI by Plaintiff Montgomery.”
Klayman names himself as a plaintiff in addition to Montgomery.
On pages 12-13 of the 60-page brief, Klayman states:
Further on page 13, Klayman claimed that Montgomery has himself been the victim of government “hacking,” with IP numbers tracked to “the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Systems office in Clarksburg, West Virginia, “the Department of Defense’s Network Information Center in Columbus, Ohio,” “the CIA in Washington, DC,” and “the CIA in Langley, Virginia.”
On page 53 of the brief, Montgomery reiterated Klayman’s claim that Baker “told and assured” Klayman that Montgomery’s provision of documentation to the agency would be handled in a “hands-on” manner by none other than Comey himself, “given its importance.”
In late 2013, Montgomery had approached then-Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joseph Arpaio with data he claimed showed that more than 150,000 of Arpaio’s constituents were victims of bank breaches by a U.S. government entity. Shortly thereafter, Arpaio hired Montgomery as a confidential informant over whom Zullo provided oversight while continuing to work on the probe of the long-form birth certificate image posted at whitehouse.gov said to represent Barack Hussein Obama’s original birth record from Hawaii.
Within hours of its publication on April 27, 2011, the image was said to be a poorly-crafted forgery by a number of experts. In August of that year, 242 of Arpaio’s constituents brought a petition to him asking that he launch an investigation to determine whether or not the image is authentic with an eye toward voter disenfranchisement in the 2012 election if proved to be fraudulent.
After approximately six months of investigation, Zullo announced at a press conference that the birth certificate image is a “computer-generated forgery,” an issue the mainstream media has attempted to ignore or claim has been “debunked.”
In recent interviews with The Post & Email, “Freedom Friday,” and other outlets, Zullo has said that in regard to the documentation Montgomery brought to the FBI, Baker “took that information and deep-filed it.”
In 2014, Baker was chosen by then-FBI Director James Comey to act as the agency’s general counsel. His FBI biography reads, in part:
In 1996, Mr. Baker joined the former Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR), which later became part of DOJ’s National Security Division. From 2001 to 2007, Mr. Baker served as counsel for intelligence policy and head of OIPR. In this position, he developed, coordinated, and implemented national security policy with regard to intelligence and counterintelligence matters for the department. Moreover, he provided the attorney general, the U.S. intelligence community, and the White House with legal and policy advice on a range of national security issues and conducted oversight of the intelligence community, including the FBI, on behalf of the attorney general.
In 2006, Mr. Baker received the George H.W. Bush Award for Excellence in counterterrorism—the CIA’s highest counterterrorism award. A year later, he received the NSA’s Intelligence Under Law Award; the NSA Director’s Distinguished Service Medal; and DOJ’s highest award— the Edmund J. Randolph Award. That same year, he became a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a lecturer at Harvard Law School. From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Baker was assistant general counsel for national security at Verizon Business. He then returned to DOJ, and from 2009 to 2011, served as an associate deputy attorney general working on a range of national security issues, including cyber security.
Baker’s alma mater, the University of Michigan School of Law, reported of his career:
He joined the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) through the Attorney General’s Honors Program in 1990 and went on to work as a federal prosecutor with the division’s Fraud Section, moving to the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR)—now part of DOJ’s National Security Division—six years later.
National security and its associated legal issues soon became an area of expertise for Baker, first through his work on matters related to criminal litigation and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and later as a result of his role in supervising the rule of law and law enforcement activities of DOJ attorneys in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But over the last decade, it is cyber security that has emerged as a chief concern and personal focus of Baker’s.
Further, the article quoted Baker as having said of the growing threats to “cyber security” that “It’s a challenging area to practice in, but one that is very important. I’ve watched cyber threats grow over the course of my career in dealing with national security matters and I’ve become increasingly alarmed over the nature of the threat and the difficulty the defenders face in trying to deal with it.”
The article then states on its own:
From the cyber criminal who threatens individual bank accounts to the organized crime group that puts the nation’s banking sector at risk, the scope of the FBI’s work is vast and the demands on its legal team equally so.
The Fox News article reported that according to unnamed attendees of Tuesday’s questioning, McCabe’s responses were inconsistent with those of witnesses already testifying before the committee.
While McCabe testified publicly within days of his former boss’s firing, Tuesday’s session was held behind closed doors.
Members of the HPSCI have said that they are poised to issue new subpoenas next week given the reported inconsistencies in McCabe’s responses on Tuesday. “While HPSCI staff would not confirm who will be summoned for testimony, all indications point to demoted DOJ official Bruce G. Ohr and FBI General Counsel James A. Baker, who accompanied McCabe, along with other lawyers, to Tuesday’s HPSCI session,” Fox reported.
In testimony last week to the House Judiciary Committee, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was grilled as to whether or not the FBI and the Justice Department would provide the documentation the committee requested months ago associated with the “Trump dossier” and whether or not the FBI “paid for” the collection of unverified material, as some have claimed.
On Tuesday, McCabe reportedly defended the dossier as “credible.”
Update, 11:22 a.m. EST: In late July, Circa reported that Baker “is allegedly under an investigation for leaking classified information to the media,” citing “multiple government officials close to the probe who spoke with Circa on the condition of anonymity.”
“What Do Comey, Baker, the CIA and FBI Have in Common?”
THEY ARE ALL COVERING UP THE TREASON OF BARRY SOETORO aka “BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA,” THE MAN WHO STOLE THE U.S. PRESIDENCY AND CREATED THE LIE THAT OUR COUNTRY AND ITS HISTORY HAVE BEEN LIVING UNDER FOR THE LAST DECADE!
Tom Arnold.
And, by the way, why does my computer automatically underline in RED every time I type the words “Comey” and/or “Soetoro?” I guess it’s the same thing that has been happening with my telephone! Guess what, though, I don’t fear you (my federal government and its law enforcement agencies in particular)! I’VE GOT THE TRUTH ON MY SIDE.
Maybe you could answer this question.
Montgomery stopped working for the government in May , 2009. So how come his hard drives show the Hawaii DOH’s computers were breached in 2011?
“In May 2009, the Air Force canceled the company’s contract because it had failed to meet its expectations.”
“Mr. Montgomery is not saying much these days. At his deposition in November, when he was asked if his software was a “complete fraud,” he answered, “I’m going to assert my right under the Fifth Amendment.”
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/us/politics/20data.html?referer=https://www.google.com/
And a Happy New Year to you.
“New information” according to Zullo? Or has the it been publicly released?
Some of you are just not paying attention.
Merry Christmas.
It isn’t just Arpaio who calls it junk but also Zullo.
Zullo responds to Montgomery:
“I have heard all this before Dennis … you never provide the source info .. no verification ….. parts of things never finished, parts of emails that we have no idea if you just made them up … and the BC software that does not work … What do you expect us to do? You have never proved the origin of anything … not to mention the worthless hard drives we have … you just want us to take you word for it… tell your story with absolutely zero proof of origin …. That can’t happen …”
Montgomery responds to Zullo:
“Easy for you to say because no one handed you a laptop while you were partially paralyzed from a stroke and demanded you work while in neuro ICU. And then when you were discharged, put you on a plane to talk to a federal judge as a whistleblower without immunity.
Not going to respond to your circular logic anymore. The drives were fine, and the information was accurate.
Use your NSA advisors to work on the data and the birth certificate. I did my best.”
Zullo responds to Montgomery:
“For the record … You went to DC on your own and your Lawyer paid for it.. .. not us … You had a lawyer with you in DC. …You laid out your tale and you can’t back up any of your accusations… Nice try .. Your family handed you a laptop not us … You blame everyone else for all your troubles and expect everyone to hand you money .. Time to take responsibility like big boy .. No more games to be played .. You never had anything you said you did …. lot was uncovered on those worthless drives … Like I told you it was a very bad day for you .. Time for the BS to end .. .”
Montgomery responds to Zullo:
“Stop making threats against me. I am tired of these abuses. I have been left disabled as a result of your recklessness in the first place.
MCSO pursued sensitive information against Judge Snow and we both know it. In fact you produced some of it to the DC judge in August.
I am amazed you could recruit some ex NSA people to help you collect more information on Judge Snow.
Remember I know MCSO’s long history of altering digital data before it is put into evidence. I suspect that is why you never put my drives into evidence.
Don’t contact me any further.”
Zullo responds to Montgomery:
“LOL every time you don’t like it when you get told the facts you call them threats .. What a joke .. Always the victim aren’t you ..
LOL!!!! You mean the phony information you handed MCSO about Snow …. LOL Dennis you don’t fool me .. You think you do … Making up emails as you went along .. Please!!! Thought I did not catch on did you.. Just like the cut a paste crap you handed us on those worthless drives .. All smoke and mirrors. It sucks when all the smoke clears …
Ex NSA guys we used to expose you ….. Took them 17 munities …”
This email exchange certainly suggests that Zullo knows Montgomery is a fraud.
As to the hard drives, if you read the opinion in Montgomery v. Risen you see that the FBI still have the drives and according to the CIA the drives contain no classified information.
New information has since come to light.
Bob68 is, of course, free to believe whatever he desires, but the evidence from Dennis Montgomery’s unsuccessful defamation lawsuit (litigated by Larry Klayman) shows that the FBI made no promises to investigate, and it even told him that it wouldn’t bother looking at Montgomery’s “junk” (that’s Arpaio word) unless a court ordered it to.
And why would Montgomery ever be entitled to data that he took from his employer, unless it really is just his own junk?
Speaking of Klayman: he had two lawsuits of his lawsuits dismissed this week.
I believe something like this happened:
As the article states, I believe Comey assured Larry Klayman and Montgomery he would handle the evidence, “hands-on”, and true to his word for once, he did just that. Comey looked at the evidence on the hard drives, or he already knew it was valid, and said something like, “HOLY CRAP!”…….this had better not see the light of day and certainly not coming from my FBI. That is when the evidence got, “sat on”, for 2 plus years. When the FBI ran out of excuses for doing what appeared to be nothing, and in the face of lawsuits, they had to come up with an excuse for not returning the evidence and $50,000 worth of hard drives to the rightful owner, Dennis Montgomery. No doubt they would have rather have used Bleach Bit and a hammer, and then stomped on whatever was left….but, not being Hillary, they feared that could be a problem. On the other hand, if it was all “junk” as the Obot claims he has proof of, Comey would have returned it to Klayman and Montgomery, hoping they would discredit themselves by actually using the “junk” as evidence. Instead, they decided it just got lost and that prompted still another lawsuit. The corruption runs deep and wide…..but I am becoming more confident the house of cards will soon collapse. Thank you Larry Klayman, Dennis Montgomery, Sharon Rondeau, Mike Volin, Mike Zullo and the others who are still active on this most important of all issues, Obama’s massively corrupt regime and his usurpation of America’s presidency.
It is undisputed that Arpaio tesitifed Montgomery’s information was”junk.” Zullo’s interpretation of Arpaio’s testimony is inconsistent with the court transcript. And there’s no way to verify Zullo’s claims about Montgonery’s information because they refuse to publically release it.
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It isn’t “Obots” who contend Dennis Montgomery’s information is junk: Sheriff Joe Arpaio testified in a federal court that it was “junk.”
You must be behind in your reading, as that has been expounded upon at length here.
I think you need to add Mueller. He was FBI director during a large part of the collection of spying turned over by Montgomery and Klayman. The FBI director when the evidence was turned over to the FBI was Mueller’s buddy, James Comey. Not so coincidentally, Comey leaked information from his meetings with President Trump and admitted he did it to get a Special Council to investigate Trump. It is my opinion he knew that Special Council would be Mueller. This was to assist in the effort to remove Trump from the presidency to protect Comey, Mueller and others from being implicated in this HUGE scandal……and others.
Obots contend the information was all, “junk”. I say if that was true the FBI would have said so and the Trump hating media would have blasted headlines such as this, “INFORMATION GIVEN TO THE FBI CLAIMING SPYING ON AMERICAN CITIZENS BY INFORMANT ASSOCIATED WITH ARPAIO’S “BIRTHER” INVESTIGATION PROVEN TO BE “JUNK”!!!” That or something similar would have been headline news for weeks. The “birther” word would have been linked to Trump one more time and his friendship with Arpaio emphasized. Instead, the FBI “lost” the evidence they were given after sitting on it and doing nothing for over 2 years. The tentacles of the Obama regime reached far and wide and the many scandals, which were supposed to have stayed covered-up with Hillary as president, are now emerging everywhere, way too slowly and with much resistance from Obama holdovers and some in Congress who are still protecting the swamp……and themselves. They are complicit in these scandal and others…..even if it was “only” by doing nothing to reveal and stop them. A few members of Congress who perhaps were not so deeply involved in the swamp are trying to take action…..it remains to be seen if they will be successful……
The administration which Barry the usurper said did not have a “smidgen” of corruption is being revealed to have been nothing but corruption……..and to those paying attention, that has been obvious for years.
Quote from the article above:
“Montgomery reiterated Klayman’s claim that Baker “told and assured” Klayman that Montgomery’s provision of documentation to the agency would be handled in a “hands-on” manner by none other than Comey himself, “given its importance.”
Comey evidently did handle the evidence in a, “hands-on”, matter, to get rid of it.