Posted on 08/14/2020 9:47:21 AM PDT by bitt
Kevin Clinesmith, a former top lawyer in James Comey's FBI, pleaded guilty on Friday to falsifying a federal spy warrant against Carter Page.
A top FBI lawyer who fabricated evidence in a federal spy warrant against Trump campaign affiliate Carter Page is expected to plead guilty to federal charges brought by U.S. Attorney John Durham. Kevin Clinesmith, who is expected to admit to deliberately fabricating evidence in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant application, used to spy on a former campaign affiliate of President Donald Trump, was a top attorney in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) and a key agency attorney under fired former FBI Director James Comey.
Clinesmith is the first individual to be charged as part of U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation into the efforts in 2016 and 2017 to spy on the Trump campaign and Trump administration. Both Durham and Attorney General William Barr stated at the conclusion of the OIG investigation of the Page FISA warrants that they had reason to believe the entire investigation of Trump, which allegedly began in late July of 2016, was not legally predicated. Durham was tapped by Barr in May of 2019 to investigate the Russian collusion hoax and determine whether any criminal charges against those who perpetrated it were warranted.
Clinesmith’s deliberate falsification of a federal spy warrant was first revealed last December following a lengthy investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), headed by Michael Horowitz. Horowitz and his team wrote in a 434-page report that Clinesmith — identified in the report as “OGC Attorney” — altered an email from a separate U.S. federal agency, believed to be the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to falsely state that Page had never worked with the CIA to investigate suspected Russia agents operating within the U.S. In fact, as Clinesmith was told by the operative, Page had worked with the CIA previously, as well as with the FBI.
According to the OIG report, Clinesmith “[o]mitted Page’s prior relationship with another U.S. government agency, despite being reminded by the other agency in June 2017, prior to the filing of the final [FISA warrant] renewal application, about Page’s past status with that other agency.”
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He did not think it would come to this.
Mind you he was on the Mueller team.
his lawyers: “it was a mistake”....
Oh, then, that’s all right.... /s
Bump
Betcha Barr has him loaded up with security.
Hope its a plea bargain to dump the dirt and testify against the deep state for a shorter sentence.
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Low Level Soldier.
He was doing what the FBi and DoJ Leadership wanted.
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great start for the day.
dominoes start falling now.
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PROTECTED:
Strzok
Page
Comey
Yates
Joe Pientka
Brennan
Rice
McCabe
Weissmann
Mueller
James Baker
Biden
Obama
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“Low Level Soldier.”
Not a low-level soldier but a senior FBI lawyer involved in obtaining a fake FISA warrant against Carter Page to spy on the entirety of the Trump campaign.
This is clearly a plea deal with cooperation a part plus some prison time.
More to come.
Good one to start with. Easy to understand what he did and clearly supports the basic premise that Trump was illegally spied on.
Will the judge accept the plea or will Clinesmith twist in the breeze for the next four years?
Low-level soldiers have brought down Dons.
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