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   From: irrelevant-pelosi@sfchronicle.com   
      
   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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