J. Edgar Comey tried to blackmail Trump

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz must have the goods on Obama and his friends at the FBI because they are starting to admit "mistakes were made" in getting permission to spy on President Donald John Trump.

And by "mistakes were made," they mean they lied through their teeth.

The Washington Examiner reported that the FBI's general counsel under Obama, James Baker, told CNN the inspector general's investigation makes him "nervous."

Baker said, "The inspector general is looking at everything we did, If the IG usually finds mistakes that we made, so I expect him to find mistakes this time."

You are not allowed to make any mistakes when you spy on an American president or an American presidential nominee. OK? Is that clear? We are a republic, not the Soviet Union.

In fact, the FBI has no business spying on the president.

The FBI works for the president.

It is not -- repeat, not -- an independent agency. The Constitution forbids that. The president is in charge of the executive branch of government, not these unelected appointees from a previous president.

So what were those mistakes that Baker said they made?

Trying to be J. Edgar Hoover.

Yahoo News reported, "Senior FBI officials were concerned then director James Comey would appear to be blackmailing then President-elect Trump – using tactics notoriously associated with J. Edgar Hoover – when he attended a fateful Jan. 6, 2017, meeting at which he informed the real estate magnate about allegations he had consorted with prostitutes in Moscow, according to Jim Baker, the bureau’s chief counsel at the time."

There is so much spin going on that Baker must look like the Tasmanian Devil of Looney Tunes lore.

This was not a constitutional crisis to Baker. No, no, no. It was bad PR. Why attempted blackmail of the president-elect may make them seem creepy.

Yahoo reported, "'We were quite worried about the Hoover analogies, and we were determined not to have such a disaster happen on our watch,' said Jim Baker, then the FBI’s top lawyer in an interview with the Yahoo News podcast Skullduggery. But he and Comey determined the bureau had an obligation to tell Trump of the uncorroborated allegations because 'the press has it; it’s about to come out. You should be alerted to that fact.'"

Oh really? They had to "alert" him.

If so, why didn't they alert President Trump to their suspicions of Russian interference during the election instead of just spying on him in the name of investigating Russians?

Indeed, why did they continue to spy on him after the election?

It looked like blackmail because it was blackmail. Obama's people tipped CNN to this story.

The basis of the spying is the big issue. Baker gave cover to the spying and attempted blackmail.

The Examiner said, "Baker said last week at an event in Washington, D.C., that he took a leading role in overseeing the FISA warrant applications to obtain the authority to spy on Page. Baker said on Monday he does not believe there was any intent from the people he worked with to do 'anything wrong or illegal,' including politically motivated spying."

Intent does not matter. Mike Flynn never intended anything bad. Mueller did not care. He indicted him.

Under Obama, the FBI repeatedly broke the law. Baker knows it. I know it. You know it.

So what are we going to do about it? Have another case where money talks and we let the criminal walk like we did with Hillary?

Lock them up, beginning with Jimmy the Weasel Comey. Excuse me, J. Edgar Comey.