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2021-06-29 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Ex-FBI lawyer facing just one-year bar suspension after guilty plea for FISA deception

[Washington Examiner] The Office of Disciplinary Counsel in Washington, D.C., has reached an agreement with ex-FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith that his admitted criminality does not constitute "moral turpitude" and his law license should be suspended for just one year after he received only probation for falsifying a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act document during the Trump-Russia investigation.

Clinesmith, who worked on the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server and on the FBI’s Trump-Russia inquiry, as well as special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, admitted in August 2020 that he falsified a document during the bureau’s efforts to renew FISA surveillance authority against Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to former President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

Clinesmith edited a CIA email in 2017 to state Page was "not a source" for the CIA when it had told the bureau on multiple occasions Page had been an "operational contact" for the agency. He was sentenced to probation in January.

After a review of how to handle Clinesmith’s standing with the D.C. bar, disciplinary counsel and Clinesmith’s lawyers signed a petition for negotiated discipline and said they "agree that the sanction to be imposed in this matter is a one-year suspension." The suspension would essentially apply retroactively from the month of his guilty plea last year, so his yearlong suspension would actually end in August.

The District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility is scheduled to hold a hearing next month, in which it can either approve or reject the slap on the wrist Clinesmith has agreed to. The agreement was first reported by Reuters on Monday.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-29 04:04|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 What is NOT said in para three is, when another gov't agency plans to utilize a source such as Page, coordination and authorizations must be granted in advance. I doubt the process was violated.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-29 04:43|| 2021-06-29 04:43|| Front Page Top

#2 All the animals are equal ...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-29 04:54|| 2021-06-29 04:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Flynn should file a civil suit

Posted by Frank G 2021-06-29 07:00|| 2021-06-29 07:00|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Flynn is flat broke.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-29 07:01|| 2021-06-29 07:01|| Front Page Top

#5
WHAT? no Evidence tampering Civil Rights violation felony charges?

I was going to ask.....
So who is he working for, for the next year and what is his political Atta-Boy payoff income?

But then I read: "The suspension would essentially apply retroactively from the month of his guilty plea last year so his year long suspension would actually end in August.,

Posted by NN2N1 2021-06-29 07:45|| 2021-06-29 07:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Board Members: Matthew G. Kaiser, Chair;
Lucy Pittman, Vice Chair. Mary C. Larkin
Elissa J. Preheim, Sundeep Hora, Bernadette Sargeant, Sara K. Blumenthal,Margaret M. Cassidy,
Robert L. Walker

Posted by Gerthudion Whomoper3485 2021-06-29 09:40|| 2021-06-29 09:40|| Front Page Top

#7 In Rogers v. Ohio Board of Nursing, Franklin C.P. No. 17 CVF 06-5549 (Oct. 31, 2017) that a crime of moral turpitude involves one of three types of conduct (it can be a misdemeanor or a crime):

Egregious sexual misconduct
Defrauding a specific person or society
Dishonesty and falsification

IMHO, we were all screwed (#1), we were all defrauded, and there was dishonesty and falsification foisted upon the American people (#3).

What a cream puff sentence and abuse of justice.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-06-29 10:06|| 2021-06-29 10:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Wow, this is really a proof of how brazen the Marxist cabal running our government has become and how deeply rotten or justice system is now. Laughable window dressing for the rubes that justice and the rule of law applies to the minions of the ruling class.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-06-29 12:48|| 2021-06-29 12:48|| Front Page Top

#9 It is not illegal if you get away with it.

Posted by SteveS 2021-06-29 13:27|| 2021-06-29 13:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Another 'deception'/'lying under oath". Does Slick Willie come to mind. No palpable consequences. But you or I? That would be another matter.

Posted by illeagle 2021-06-29 16:19|| 2021-06-29 16:19|| Front Page Top

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