FBI is leaking like a sieve.
Via Daily Caller:
Former FBI Director James Comey defended the bureau’s top lawyer on Friday, alleging that he is being “attacked for partisan gain.”
Comey spoke out on Twitter in response to recent stories about James A. Baker, his friend and the FBI’s general counsel.
“Sadly, we are now at a point in our political life when anyone can be attacked for partisan gain,” Comey wrote.
“James Baker, who is stepping down as FBI General Counsel, served our country incredibly well for 25 years & deserves better. He is what we should all want our public servants to be.”
Comey appeared to be triggered by a report published by Politico on Friday which insinuated that Baker may have been a source for a reporter at the left-leaning news outlet Mother Jones.
Politico cited congressional Republicans who said that the Justice Department recently provided documents showing that Baker was in touch with Mother Jones’s David Corn in the weeks before the election.
Corn is the reporter who published the Oct. 31, 2016 story quoting Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the infamous Steele dossier.
Though the implication was that Baker was a source for Corn, the reporter denied that the FBI lawyer was a source for the dossier story.
Baker has also been at the center of an internal FBI leak investigation. The Washington Post reported on Thursday that Comey’s pal was under scrutiny for revealing information about surveillance techniques of an unnamed email provider.