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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Ex-FBI lawyer charged with felony, to plead guilty to altering evidence in Russia probe

2020-08-14

[Just The News] Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was charged Friday with a felony and has agreed to plead guilty to altering a document in the Russia collusion probe, the first criminal case to be brought in the investigation of U.S. Attorney John Durham, according to officials and a court document.

Ahead of his plea, Clinesmith was charged in federal court in Washington D.C. with one count of making a false statement for altering information he had received from the CIA in June 2017 to hide the fact that Trump campaign official Carter Page was a source for the Agency.
And very likely a 'source' for the FBI as well.
The alteration caused the Justice Department to make a false representation to the FISA Court that approved surveillance of Page for nearly a year, the criminal information filed by Durham states.
Are we really expected to believe that the Bureau was conducting surveillance on a registered Agency intelligence source and the Agency was not fully aware? Please ladies and gentlemen, just foking please.
Clinesmith "did willfully and knowingly make and use a false writing and document knowing the same to contain a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement and entry in a matter before the jurisdiction of the executive branch and judicial branch," the court filing said.

You can read the charging document here.

Posted by:Besoeker

#6 And now the practical application of the Prisoner's Dilemma.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-08-14 19:40

#5 The depth and breadth of my continued ignorance on such matters (because no, I haven’t guessed it) is a credit to the circumspection of all those here who ought to be, Besoeker. In short, I still have only a vague idea of what all that means, so well done!

Posted by: trailing wife 2020-08-14 18:52

#4 /\ There are legal and statutory provisions (very long standing established processes which will go unnamed in this forum) for the utilization, sharing, or exploitation of US Intelligence (USI) community assets. The central hub of this process is, yes of course, you've guessed it.

To think everyone was caught unawares or uninformed is simply crazy talk.

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-08-14 17:46

#3 Please provide the 'distro line' of the Bureau surveillance reporting.

I suspect the coming series of reports like this will make that perfectly clear, Besoeker. The disgust voiced by Rantburg’s own retired FBI long since suggested what would happen once their comrades were loosed to hunt.

I note in passing that it was repeatedly stated that President Trump was not the object of the FBI’s Russia collusion probe, and so take any statements about former president Obama in the same spirit, even as Senator Mitt Romney’s committee prepares the field by flooding it with sunshine.

Posted by: trailing wife 2020-08-14 17:38

#2 Hat tip to Durham. One down, many more to go.

Psssst psssst...! Please provide the 'distro line' of the Bureau surveillance reporting. Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-08-14 15:32

#1 2 bureaus to go.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-08-14 15:29

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