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2021-01-30 -Lurid Crime Tales-

About The Clinesmith Sentencing -- Color Me 'Not Shocked'

[Red State] U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg imposed a sentence of one year of probation on Kevin Clinesmth today in connection with his guilty plea to making a "false writing" during the course of his work as an attorney for the FBI on the Crossfire Hurrican investigation at the time it was being run by the Mueller Special Counsel’s Office.

I telegraphed a bit in this story from a few months ago that Special Prosecutor John Durham wasn’t approaching Clinesmith’s sentencing as the first of many dominos that might fall. But that doesn’t mean that Clinesmith was not valuable as a witness who could be extensively debriefed about both Crossfire Hurricane and the Mueller Special Counsel’s Office.

To recap briefly, Clinesmith was an attorney — not a prosecutor — who worked to provide legal support and assistance to the FBI Agents and analysts working on Crossfire Hurricane. He was with the investigation from the very start and continued on the investigation after it was taken over by Mueller’s team.

In that time frame, June 2017, preparation was underway to seek a third renewal — for another 90 days — of the FISA electronic surveillance warrant obtained on Carter Page. The original warrant was obtained on October 22, 2016, and it had been renewed twice prior to June 2017.

In March 2017 Page’s name was leaked to the media as a former Trump campaign official who was suspected of being a Russian Agent, and that he had been under secret surveillance by the FBI for many months.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-01-30 01:36|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Twenty five meter target, easy conviction and hand slap. Could the sentence reflect Clinesmith's cooperation with the investigators and potential 'cheese eating' on other Crossfire Hurricane persons of interest? Yes it could, but it probably does not.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-01-30 01:47|| 2021-01-30 01:47|| Front Page Top

#2 They really think we're stupid. Their arrogance and contempt for this country are boundless

Posted by Skunky Stalin3683 2021-01-30 05:34|| 2021-01-30 05:34|| Front Page Top

#3 MSM dropped this case down the Memory Hole a long time ago so nobody knows or cares. Move along now.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-01-30 11:53|| 2021-01-30 11:53|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ My thought was well. Mopping up the battlefield, claiming a conviction... or sorts.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-01-30 11:55|| 2021-01-30 11:55|| Front Page Top

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