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Former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith is expected to plead guilty
to charges that he falsified information on FISA warrant
applications to spy on former members of the Trump campaign,
particularly Carter Page. This is the first major movement US
Attorney John Durham’s investigation into the Russian hoax that
plagued the nation for two years, a hoax that should never have
been initiated and definitely shouldn’t have been continued.

Clinesmith is expected to admit that he altered inter-agency
emails to make it seem like Page did not work with the CIA on
Russian investigations when he actually did. This was important
in renewing the warrants as it eliminated reasonable doubt that
he was a Russian asset. According to The Federalist:

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.”

“Instead of including this information in the final renewal
application,” the OIG report stated, Clinesmith “altered an
email from the other agency so that the email stated that Page
was ‘not a source’ for the other agency, which the FBI affiant
relied upon in signing the final renewal application.”

JD Rucker
@JDRucker
Kevin Clinesmith better be the appetizer and not the main course.

Nice start, but America's still hungry for more justice, John
Durham and William Barr.
10:28 AM · Aug 14, 2020
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