Posted on 06/30/2021 8:07:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Russiagate coverup rolls merrily along, with the agitprop media almost completely ignoring a startling instance of the deep state taking care of its own, even when they are caught red-handed committing grave felonies.
Does the name Kevin Clinesmith ring a bell? He’s the FBI lawyer that lied on a FISA warrant in order to be able to spy on the Trump campaign by falsely implicating Carter Page. He was caught red-handed in altering an email 180 degrees.
Lying to a judge is a serious offense for anyone. But for an officer of the court, one who works for the government and has a heightened obligation to serve justice, to lie to a court is a very serious breach. Failure to punish government officials who perjure themselves in order to spy on innocent citizens and a presidential campaign invites the worst kind of abuse. It plants the seeds of tyranny.
Special Counsel John Durham was not interested in punishing Clinesmith severely, but at least he did ask for prison time last December, albeit under six months’ worth. But federal judge James Boasberg, the very judge lied to, was sympathetic to Clinesmith and sentenced him to 12 months of probation and 400 hours of community service in January.
Judge Boasberg was appointed to the federal Bench by Obama, and placed on the FISA court by Chief Justice Roberts. He is reportedly a member of Skull & Bones, the ultra-elite secret society at Yale University.
Now, very quietly, word has spread that Clinesmith will be able to practice law again in just a couple of months.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
the criminal who falsified evidence, which resulted in the surveillance powers of the federal government being turned against a citizen, Carter Page, for participating in a U.S. political campaign.
Freeman notes:
You’ll find precious few media reports about it but fortunately Mike Scarcella of Reuters reports:
Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith has agreed to a one-year suspension of his attorney license in Washington, D.C., following his conviction in August 2020 on a felony false-statement charge arising from the internal review of the special counsel’s Russia investigation, new bar records show.
He continues:
The penalty is even more modest than it initially appears because the suspension is backdated to his conviction so this abuser of government power will be allowed to practice law again this August. Add District of Columbia Court of Appeals Board on Professional Responsibility disciplinary counsel Hamilton P. Fox, III and his assistant William R. Ross to the disgraceful ranks of swamp creatures like Judge James Boasberg who have refused to punish appropriately this federal assault on liberty.
He states that this leniency “only encourages other government officials to fabricate evidence.”
This is what unequal justice looks like.
Deep State enemy of America, amd Americans.
Still think we are winning?
The appearance of FBI shenanigans is why Bill Ayers is free as a bird yet admittedly guilty as sin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
(derived from COunter INTELligence PROgram) (1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal[1][2] projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations.
...The FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception; however, covert operations under the official COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971.[12] COINTELPRO tactics are still used to this day and have been alleged to include discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and illegal violence, including assassination.[13][14][15][16] The FBI’s stated motivation was “protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order”.[17]
...Illegal surveillance
The final report of the Church Committee concluded:
Too many people have been spied upon by too many Government agencies and too much information has been illegally collected. The Government has often undertaken the secret surveillance of citizens on the basis of their political beliefs, even when those beliefs posed no threat of violence or illegal acts on behalf of a hostile foreign power. The Government, operating primarily through secret and biased informants, but also using other intrusive techniques such as wiretaps, microphone “bugs”, surreptitious mail opening, and break-ins, has swept in vast amounts of information about the personal lives, views, and associations of American citizens. Investigations of groups deemed potentially dangerous—and even of groups suspected of associating with potentially dangerous organizations—have continued for decades, despite the fact that those groups did not engage in unlawful activity.
Groups and individuals have been assaulted, repressed, harassed and disrupted because of their political views, social beliefs and their lifestyles. Investigations have been based upon vague standards whose breadth made excessive collection inevitable. Unsavory, harmful and vicious tactics have been employed—including anonymous attempts to break up marriages, disrupt meetings, ostracize persons from their professions, and provoke target groups into rivalries that might result in deaths. Intelligence agencies have served the political and personal objectives of presidents and other high officials. While the agencies often committed excesses in response to pressure from high officials in the Executive branch and Congress, they also occasionally initiated improper activities and then concealed them from officials whom they had a duty to inform.
Governmental officials—including those whose principal duty is to enforce the law—have violated or ignored the law over long periods of time and have advocated and defended their right to break the law.
The Constitutional system of checks and balances has not adequately controlled intelligence activities. Until recently the Executive branch has neither delineated the scope of permissible activities nor established procedures for supervising intelligence agencies. Congress has failed to exercise sufficient oversight, seldom questioning the use to which its appropriations were being put. Most domestic intelligence issues have not reached the courts, and in those cases when they have reached the courts, the judiciary has been reluctant to grapple with them.[92][93]
That, possibly, might have been true sometime in the distant past. Now it is commonly understood that lying is permissible and a requirement for political success. The RATS are seriously considering Boasberg and Clinesmith for Supreme Court nominations sometime in the future.
So, not a one, not a single one of the dozens who plotted to remove President Trump will suffer the consequences.
I hope those who harp endlessly about the US being a republic will STFU.
If he had been a conservative and done something like this to obumber or biden, he would have never practiced law again. Much less served the maximum sentence in jail possible. This is the treatment innocent protesters are getting for Jan 6th. Yet not a single repub, including Trump, has said anything about it. I hope all of them rot in hell!
As we’ve seen in the last 5 years our so called “justice” system has become totally F’d up in favor of the deep state cabal! So ashamed of the America I used to love!
FAILURE!!
Imagine if a Republican lied to the FISA court.
Yet not a single repub, including Trump, has said anything about it.
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Silence is consent.
Clinesmith will probably get offered a cushy job at some law school teaching ethics.
Both the judge & the accused need a good long sentence.
President Trump generally holds fire until it’s the right time.
Since Klinesmith is not a household word, my guess is he’s holding until the entire SpyGate affair is swept under the rug by the invisible Durham.
The corrupt establishment will throw everything they’ve got at him to stop Trump from ever returning to Washington.
They control all the resources and money. And of course the GOP is no help at all.
Actually, what’s new? Lawyers lie all the time, in and out of court. If you say the words “lawyer” and “liar” fast, there’s hardly a difference in the sound.
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