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Typically, a case like Kevin Clinesmith's would end in disbarment, but not this time. Kevin Clinesmith, the former senior FBI lawyer who was placed on probation as a convicted felon for falsifying a surveillance document during the Trump-Russia investigation, has been returned to "good standing" as a member of the D.C. Bar Association. In August of 2020, Clinesmith pleaded guilty to doctoring an email that was then used to justify a surveillance warrant that targeted former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. As a result, Clinesmith was sentenced in January to 12 months probation, though the D.C. bar did not seek...

Dan Rather warned Wednesday night that if you think Tuesday was a shock with the Cohen guilty plea and Manafort's conviction, then "stay tuned." The former news anchor said other things Mueller is working on will "make yesterday pale by comparison." "Always keeping in mind that Mueller knows so much more than he has shown," Rather said in an interview with CNN's Don Lemon. "If you think [Cohen guilty plea, Manafort conviction] was a shock to our democratic system, just stay tuned. Because the other things Mueller is working on, and sooner or later we'll find out what they are,...

Respected news icon Dan Rather launched a Facebook page to counter the lies and “alternative facts” from Donald Trump.

September 24th, 2011 To: Barack H. Obama 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20500 RE: Social Security Administration Notice of Mismatch Letter Dear. Mr. Obama, Currently, the Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986) require employers, by law, to establish that their employees are eligible to work in the United States. The Form I-9 was developed for verifying that persons are eligible to work in the United States. Employers are required by law to have employees hired after November 6, 1986 fill out Section 1 of the Form I-9 when they start to work. Section 1 of Form I-9 asks for...

The offshore bank account details of 2,000 "high net worth individuals" and corporations – detailing massive potential tax evasion – will be handed over to the WikiLeaks organisation in London tomorrow by the most important and boldest whistleblower in Swiss banking history, Rudolf Elmer, two days before he goes on trial in his native Switzerland. British and American individuals and companies are among the offshore clients whose details will be contained on CDs presented to WikiLeaks at the Frontline Club in London. Those involved include, Elmer tells the Observer, "approximately 40 politicians". Elmer, who after his press conference will return...

SALT LAKE CITY -- The former wife of Mark Hofmann, convicted forger, bomber and murderer, will tell her side of the story Wednesday night on the Investigation Discovery Network. Dorie Olds, of Salt Lake City, who divorced Hofmann in the late 1980s, will be featured on "Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?," which will air at 8 p.m. Wednesday on Investigation Discovery Network, seen by local cable subscribers on Channel 271. Olds, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, reportedly considered herself a devout member of the faith and assumed her returned-missionary groom was as well....

Oakland County Clerk Ruth Johnson, a candidate for Michigan Secretary of State, says she has evidence of forgery in one of the candidate statements for the "Tea Party" political party. The supposed candidate, Aaron Tyler of Springfield Township, has been in Phoenix, AZ, and told Johnson's office that he did not wish to be a candidate, did not sign his name on candidate statement paperwork, and had no idea his name was in the process of being placed on the ballot. According to the release: "Johnson said the alleged false Tyler paperwork was notarized by a Jason H.Bauer. According to...

Tuesday, Sen. John F. Kerry (D) Massachusetts demonstrated in the OP/ED Pages of the New York Times in a piece “The Speech the President Should Give” one reason he stills sits at the same Senate desk he’s held down since 1984. Mr. Kerry’s remarks seem a grab bag of initiatives untried by the Bush administration in Iraq for one giant reason: They will not work. With so many initiatives, Mr. Kerry must be duck hunting again with his scatter gun. Where to begin breaking down his missive is the least troubling question presented. Mr. Kerry calls for a U.N. Multinational...

We, the people, the "guys in pajamas" can force the Rathergate forger into the open--if we only have the will to try. We can start a campaign that focuses on the two media outlets--ABC and USA Today--who got the same information as CBS. Apparently they have come around to the view that the documents probably are bogus. Therefore any confidentiality arrangement with the source is void.Our arguments should be the ethics rules of the Society of Professional Journalists. We can use their own rules against them. Go to the Society of Professional Journalists http://www.spj.org/ethics_code.asp and then to their ethics page....

Sept. 9, 2004, will be remembered as a paradigm-shifting day in media history. That was the day the "blogosphere" took down CBS News. ....But if the bloggers have power, it's because they form a robust intellectual marketplace, in which assertions must prove themselves before a jury of cyber-peers. In the words of James T. Smith, of critical-thinker.blogspot.com, "The blogosphere is the people." To be sure, the marketplace can make mistakes, but on the whole, like democracy itself, the more folks participating, the better the functioning. But this democratization of the media is bad news - for those who liked it...

I'd planned on sitting on this information until tomorrow to do more research, but developments are moving fast, so I think it's time to shine some light on one of the most likely suspects behind the CBS memo forgery. Marty Heldt (or someone known to him) Why? Three recent developments. Development #1 The previous article at Wizbang notes that USA Today independently obtained copies of the memo's that CBS had six weeks ago. Interestingly enough they had six memos (as opposed to CBS's four), and it's the first of those that is the first plank in identifying the forger. The...

A half hour ago, Dan Rather went on CNN and said that he knows the Jerry Killian documents to be authentic, and knows that they are not forgeries. Therefore, he said, there will be no retraction, no correction, and -- apparently -- no investigation. The text of the interview is not yet available on CNN's site, but we'll link to it when it becomes available. What does this mean? Last night, it was reported that senior executives at CBS News were promising an investigation. Today, Dan Rather is personally vouching for the documents' authenticity. This can only mean that Rather...

Well, it's very important, actually, because it explains why the Brits kept on saying they believed Saddam was trying to get his hands on yellowcake from Niger, when the CIA--and their asset, Seymour Hersh--had loudly and piously blasted the president of the united states for saying it. The CIA certainly knew that the Brits had both human and electronic evidence--no way that, at a minimum, wasn't shared with us--but they focused their assault on a forged document that came via Rome. But even there, the CIA certainly knew that the Italians hadn't taken the forged document seriously. This is the...