Posted on 08/15/2020 5:10:34 AM PDT by karpov
At last, some accountability for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s outrageous intervention in the 2016 presidential campaign. On Friday U.S. Attorney John Durham charged former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith with doctoring an email to justify a surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Mr. Durham is digging into the origins of the FBI’s 2016 Crossfire Hurricane investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mr. Page was a minor Trump adviser. But four times in eight months the FBI told the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that there was probable cause that Mr. Page was a foreign agent.
One not-so-small detail: The CIA had told the FBI as early as August 2016 that Mr. Page had been an “operational contact” for the CIA from 2008 to 2013. This was highly exculpatory information, yet the FBI didn’t include it in its first three applications to surveil Mr. Page.
Only after Mr. Page publicly stated in spring 2017 that he’d assisted the U.S. government was Mr. Clinesmith, an FBI assistant general counsel, tasked with asking the CIA if this were true. His request to the agency noted that the FBI would “need to disclose” such a fact “in our next [surveillance] renewal.” The CIA in June 2017 confirmed Mr. Page’s CIA service. Yet Mr. Clinesmith told a supervisory FBI agent the opposite, and he later altered the CIA email to include the words “not a source.” The fourth warrant application did not include Mr. Page’s CIA history.
Mr. Clinesmith’s attorney says his client didn’t intend to mislead the court. But Mr. Clinesmith also sent text messages expressing hostility to Mr. Trump’s 2016 election. Mr. Clinesmith was part of the Crossfire Hurricane investigating team and later moved over to Robert Mueller’s special counsel team.
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LMAO.
“He fell asleep at his desk, and his hands just randomly typed out a series of keystrokes that altered the e-mail.”
Make him cough up some names or do full time with 300 pound bubba in the same cell....Sean Hannity keeps saying .99% of FBI is good ...Rubbish,,The small fry are just as corrupt as their bosses....
This should not be a surprise to anyone that has been following the Trump Haters. This is just a tid-bit thrown out to us to think the DOJ is doing something. IMHO
Very very late in the game, let’s hope more of these traitors are held to account before the election. If God forbid Biden wins, obviously they never will be. And BTW, can you believe the absolute gall of liberals shrieking about Trump and the Post office claiming he is fixing the election yet they had no problem with the Obama caliphate and the FBI, CIA REALLY trying to fix the election and all for the benefit of one of the most corrupt politicians in US history who STILL to this day is not held accountable.
“””Sean Hannity keeps saying .99% of FBI is good .”””
Hurl alert.
Hannity’s audience probably has an average IQ of 90. If you listen to the callers on his radio show in NYC, you’ll find that they are mostly the dopey wives of career law enforcement officers who live on Long Island.
“...keeps saying .99% of FBI is good...”
With your decimal I actually believe the statement. The remaining 99.01% are bad.
The only thing I want to know is how is his singing voice?
Did Clinesmith have a supervisor? Then the supervisor was in on it too - this has gone on way too long!
So Hannitus Interruptus is actually correct, then.
He knows where all the bodies are buried. How long before he gets suicided by Hillary?
He’ll get the Lois Lerner treatment.
“Mr. Clinesmith was part of the Crossfire Hurricane investigating team and later moved over to Robert Mueller’s special counsel team”
Nice job by Mueller putting together an unbiased investigative team. I suspect more of the Dem operatives from that shame investgation will go down. No accident Mueller headed that investigation, he is and was on the downside of his marbles. FIGUREHEAD.
any info about the person, the perp?? I doubt he was ever an FBI agent, probably hired from DOJ as were so many of the headquarters staff.
Here’s to this small fish leading up to some trophy catches.
Sean Hannity keeps saying .99% of FBI is good..
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Actually, that might be correct. 0.99% are good.
He hates to be challenged on anything.
What did client think he was doing by changing the message 180 degrees opposite.
The lawyer missed logic class.
One possibility is Clinesmith was directed to make the change.
Another is Clinesmith is a nerd whose only friends are a group of corrupt, crimminal, Marxists
One down...hundreds to go.
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