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Who Will Prosecute the Prosecutors?
Creators.com ^ | 7-11-21 | Debra Saunders

Posted on 07/12/2021 2:39:52 PM PDT by DeweyCA

In August, FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith pled guilty to a felony count of making a false statement while working to secure FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) surveillance on Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

In the early days of the Russian probe, an FBI official had asked if Page had served as a source for the government, as Page maintained; Clinesmith falsely altered a document by adding "not a source" in a fourth FISA application.

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Clinesmith's punishment for making a false statement? Prosecutors recommended three to six months, according to Politico. Federal Judge James Boasberg instead sentenced Clinesmith to 12 months' probation and 400 hours of community service.

Carter Page generously testified that he did not want Clinesmith to serve time.

"I don't want him to go to prison" either, former Department of Justice spokesman Mark Corallo told me. But given that Page's Fourth Amendment rights were violated, "shouldn't his law license be taken away?"

Now we learn, Clinesmith cut a deal with the D.C. Bar that, if approved, would allow him to practice law in August.

Corallo is appalled. Clinesmith "shouldn't be allowed to practice law. He violated somebody's constitutional rights," said Corallo. FBI staff shouldn't use their authority for partisan payback.

"When cops break the rules, we're supposed to hammer them," said Corallo. Not in this justice system and with these career bureaucrats.

Random Trump liars go to jail while the FBI liar doesn't.

The New York Supreme Court suspends the former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani's law license while a federal judge agrees to allow Clinesmith to return to the law. Yes, I know, Giuliani is an embarrassment, but unlike Clinesmith, he hasn't been convicted of a felony.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: carterpage; clinesmith; debrasaunders; districtofcolumbia; fbi; fisa; fourthamendment; jamesboasberg; kevinclinesmith; markcorallo; newyork; rudygiuliani; russia; russiarussiarussia; spygate; trump
There is no justice. The Spygate perpetrators run free, even this guy who was convicted of a felony. We have a government that is a mini-version of Mexico and other corrupt 3rd-world banana republics. Congratulations Dems (and RINOs), you have converted our once-glorious government into a cesspool where you can have personal power without accountability.
1 posted on 07/12/2021 2:39:52 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: DeweyCA

“It’s a great big club and you ain’t in it.” George Carlin

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2 posted on 07/12/2021 2:41:40 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: DeweyCA
DC is the District of Corruption.

Totalitarianism in all forms is Evil!

Progressive #Progressive_Caucus
Socialist #Venezuela
Marxist #BLM
Fascist #Nazi's (Erdogan’s Turkey)
Communist #Antifa
Dictator #ComDem_Covid19_Dictators
Islamist #ISIS
Bureaucrap #the_Swamp

All Evil. All Fail.

Freedom Works.

It's TIME to DownSize DC!

Restore the Constitution!Size DC!

3 posted on 07/12/2021 2:46:08 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: DeweyCA
FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith pled guilty to a felony count of making a false statement while working to secure FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) surveillance on Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

Just try to imagine what a big story that would be if an FBI attorney made false statements to secure surveillance on an Obama campaign advisor.

4 posted on 07/12/2021 3:00:08 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far: most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: DeweyCA

No one.

All of the authorities are in on it.

We now have a communist dictatorship.


5 posted on 07/12/2021 3:16:03 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurker

Yep.


6 posted on 07/12/2021 3:16:45 PM PDT by sauropod (The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
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To: DeweyCA

WE NEED A SOECIAL COURT SYSTEM SET UP WITH SPECIAL PROSECUTORS.

Every rat in the Deep State from Biden on down needs to face a special court.

A military tribunal might be appropriate but Milley and some of the other Rats in the Pentagon need to be brought to justice


7 posted on 07/12/2021 3:18:20 PM PDT by ZULU (Impeach John Roberts, Coney-Barrett, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. TRAITORS)
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To: Lurker

>> “It’s a great big club and you ain’t in it.” George Carlin

Was thinking exactly that.


8 posted on 07/12/2021 3:24:49 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: DeweyCA

This is Durham exposing himself. Out of everything that was done by people at the top of every agency, they give one low-level guy a slap on the wrist.


9 posted on 07/12/2021 3:29:46 PM PDT by marron
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To: DeweyCA

New Title...”Who will Prosecute the PERSECUTORS’???


10 posted on 07/12/2021 4:57:43 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: libertylover
Just try to imagine what a big story that would be if an FBI attorney made false statements to secure surveillance on an Obama campaign advisor.

Or just imagine the howling and screaming the clown-show MSM would have done if an FBI director like(James Comey) would have gone to the white house and tried to blackmail Obama with a phony dossier paid for by their republican opponent. But of course, since it was Trump being targeted by Hillary and Obama... Crickets.

11 posted on 07/12/2021 5:06:16 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: DeweyCA

Carved in stone above an entrance to the DOJ in DC, “Where Justice Ends, Tyranny Begins” About says it all Yes.


12 posted on 07/12/2021 5:20:17 PM PDT by stockpirate (Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God., Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins)
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To: libertylover

FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith pled guilty to a felony count of making a false statement while working to secure FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) surveillance on Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.


Except they didn’t then monitor Page, aside from attempting to get him to compromise himself - they monitored others. They didn’t even get around to looking at the accusations against Page until December.


13 posted on 07/12/2021 10:31:27 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Clinesmith's punishment for making a false statement? Prosecutors recommended three to six months, according to Politico. Federal Judge James Boasberg instead sentenced Clinesmith to 12 months' probation and 400 hours of community service... former Department of Justice spokesman Mark Corallo... is appalled. Clinesmith "shouldn't be allowed to practice law. He violated somebody's constitutional rights," said Corallo. FBI staff shouldn't use their authority for partisan payback. "When cops break the rules, we're supposed to hammer them," said Corallo... The New York Supreme Court suspends the former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani's law license while a federal judge agrees to allow Clinesmith to return to the law... unlike Clinesmith, he hasn't been convicted of a felony.

14 posted on 07/13/2021 6:24:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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