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Is Kevin Clinesmith the convenient scape goat
2020-08-15
[Red State] One important fact getting overlooked in all the discussion of whether FBI Attorney Kevin Clinesmith’s guilty plea represents the sacrifice of a minor criminal so the ringleaders can escape justice or the beginning of the end for those who were running the show is exactly whose show Clinesmith was a part of when the crime he’s admitted committing occurred.

You see, Clinesmith wasn’t working for James Comey on June 19, 2017, the date he altered that CIA email inconveniently identifying Trump’s onetime foreign policy advisor Carter Page as a trusted source.

By that point in time, Clinesmith was part of Robert Mueller’s Independent Counsel investigation.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  The poisoned tree reaches all the way to the FISA judges who rubber stamp this sh*t.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-08-15 15:13  

#3  They needed the FISA warrant to electronically monitor Carter Page (and collect FISA Section-702 'incidental intelligence'). If one of the FISA clerks, lawyers, or judges had noticed a Page-CIA connection, it may have queered the deal.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-08-15 07:36  

#2  Good move by the deep state to put the guy who altered the evidence into the team doing the investigation.
Posted by: Airandee   2020-08-15 07:02  

#1  I thought it strange at the time that the Robert Mueller investigation sort of side stepped any potential criminality involved in the Carter Page and Trump campaign issue. As I recall, Mr. Page did have rather long standing Russian connections. Perhaps we now know why.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-08-15 03:22  

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