THE NEW YORK TIMES  – FBI Chief Legal Counsel Jim Baker and FBI top aide Lisa Page have ‘resigned’ from the FBI. They are two of five key FBI insiders (Baker, Strzok, Page, Ohr, Priestap) who leaked and lied.

The good news in all of this is that this indicates that they did not get immunity from prosecution. It also indicates that the Inspector General’s report will be released soon. Even though it was just announced that the IG John Huber needs a little time to look into the Clinton email scandal information, it looks like this house of cards will soon come crashing down…

TWO OF THE PIECES TO THE PUZZLE JUMP SHIP:

JIM BAKER

Jim Baker had been the subject of a Justice Department investigation on suspicion of leaking classified information about the so-called “Trump dossier” – a document that supposedly contained evidence about the Trump campaign’s connection to Russia.

He had been reassigned in December as an adviser to current FBI Director Christopher Wray.

Conservative Treehouse reports:

James Baker – The former FBI chief legal counsel and close adviser to FBI Director James Comey.  In addition to coordinating the “small group” activity to exonerate Hillary Clinton, Baker was also a recipient for some of the Comey Memos of recent release. This puts Baker in a position to understand the “insurance policy” described by FBI Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Counsel Lisa Page. Additionally, Baker would be able to identify the level of knowledge and participation of Director Comey, and is therefore perhaps the biggest risk to Comey specifically.  December 21st, 2017, Baker was removed from any responsibility but remains inside the FBI in some capacity; he was therefore considered a cooperating co-conspirator for the FBI Inspection Division (INSD), IG Horowitz and likely prosecutor Huber.

LISA PAGE

Lisa Page, who was previously a member of Robert Mueller’s special counsel team, came under fire for allegedly sending “anti-Trump” text messages to a colleague.

She was one of Comey’s advisers in 2016 when the former director announced the bureau would not pursue criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her handling of classified emails.

Comey has said he would have removed Page from any relevant investigations had he known of her anti-Trump bias.

Conservative Treehouse reports:

Lisa Page – The former designated counsel from Main Justice assigned to assist Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.  We know from open-sourced information; from her own released text messages; and from congressional releases, that Lisa Page was the person who provided the text messages to INSD and the Inspector General. Page’s account of the media leak instructions she received from McCabe conflicted with her boss, and ultimately led to the proof of McCabe’s false statements.

Lisa Page was the connective bridge within the team joining the DOJ-NSD to the FBI operation.  Obviously Page and FBI Agent Peter Strzok were working closely at the heart of the “small group” activity.  They were the footsoldiers carrying out the orders passed down from Lynch/Yates (DOJ) and Comey/McCabe (FBI).   After cooperating with the INSD and IG investigation, Page quit the Mueller team in June of 2017.