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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Kevin Clinesmith, Corrupt FBI Attorney Who Falsified Carter Page FISA Warrant, Expected To Plead Guilty
2020-08-15
More about this story from yesterday.
[THEFEDERALIST] 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
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
, 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 JamesThe spine of the FBI is the rule of law Comey
The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI...
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."
Related:
Kevin Clinesmith: 2020-08-14 Ex-FBI lawyer charged with felony, to plead guilty to altering evidence in Russia probe
Kevin Clinesmith: 2020-07-26 FBI recorded Trump questions on Russia during first counterintelligence briefing
Kevin Clinesmith: 2020-07-26 Rep. Swalwell on new information showing FBI spied on Trump: 'They were right to do it'
Posted by:Fred

#21  Back button doesn't preserve your comment on Android phones.
Posted by: Knuckles Lumumba7460   2020-08-15 21:19  

#20  I tried the back button once before but it did not work. I don't know if it made a difference being on a mobile device versus a desktop, though.

But, yes, that can work.
Posted by: Clem   2020-08-15 20:23  

#19  Use zeros instead of letter o in any questionable words when possible. Whistlebl0wer.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-08-15 18:56  

#18  Used VI a bit. WordPerfect was crushing everything else by the time I came along.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-08-15 13:40  

#17  /\ Vi, or one of its UNIX variants? That was what I started on back in the day.
Posted by: magpie   2020-08-15 13:30  

#16   Nevermind I'll just post one fraking link

I discovered the hard way that comments here are limited to two links. More than two links triggers Rantburg’s anti-spam protections. Posted articles can have more links, but I’ve gotten lazy over the years and let our readers go to the original article for most of those.

And that back arrow trick has saved the situation for me more often than I can count.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-08-15 13:27  

#15  And, no, I never had to use EMACS. Not sorry about that.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-08-15 12:16  

#14  I grew up typing and re-typing stuff on typewriters. When I learned ho to protect my effort on a green screen editing program I never looked back.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-08-15 12:15  

#13  Sorry, Clem. I was guarding my work when computers hung up a couple times an hour. CTRL-S is a tic to me.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-08-15 12:13  

#12  That all perhaps sounds good in theory but that isn't reality at all and is a bit absurd to do for every post, Weblog entry, and e-mail in the world. Effective, yes; practical/sane, hardly.
Posted by: Clem   2020-08-15 12:04  

#11  Dirty trick:

After your post fails to publish, back arrow on you browser and it's probably still in the edit box.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-08-15 11:19  

#10  The drill:

Write your post > select all > copy > post.

Doesn't post? start looking for the obvious issues. Your post is still on your clipboard so you don't need to type it again.

Live > and learn.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-08-15 11:10  

#9  Some really innocuous words/combinations that sometimes don't get through Fred's anti-spam set-up.
Posted by: Clem   2020-08-15 10:19  

#8  Whistleblower
Posted by: Frank G   2020-08-15 10:16  

#7  whistleblovver...test
Posted by: Clem   2020-08-15 10:16  

#6  Apparently I can't post "whistleblower".

Clearly a derogatory LGBQTy reference.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-08-15 09:21  

#5  Thanks Woodrow! Gotta post that one.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-08-15 07:22  

#4  Looks like he took door number 2.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-08-15 07:17  

#3  Nevermind I'll just post one fraking link

Clinesmith, In Order to Save Himself, Has Implicated Others on Crossfire Hurricane — Who Ultimately Hid the Exculpatory Info From the FISA Court?
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-08-15 05:55  

#2  WTH
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-08-15 05:51  

#1  Apparently I can't post "whistleblower".
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-08-15 05:20  

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