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[Gateway] Former FBI Attorney Kevin Clinesmith is expected to plead guilty to altering Carter Page evidence to support the FISA warrant used to spy on the Donald Trump campaign in 2016.
However, Clinesmith, in order to save himself, implicated others on Crossfire Hurricane.
38-year-old Clinesmith altered an email from CIA investigators used to request a FISA warrant and renewals on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.
Carter Page previously worked as a source for the CIA, however Clinesmith falsely said Page was "never" a CIA source.
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If there's enough drip-drip-drip here to last into October, it's ShowTime™.
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:-D, #1 M.M.
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Well, let's hope so.
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Well, if he suddenly kills himself by shooting himself in the back of the head twice or leaping through a window in a tall building, we'll know if he was a scapegoat or planning to testify against others.
[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.
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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.
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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.
[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."
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.
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Dirty trick:
After your post fails to publish, back arrow on you browser and it's probably still in the edit box.
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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.
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Sorry, Clem. I was guarding my work when computers hung up a couple times an hour. CTRL-S is a tic to me.
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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.
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And, no, I never had to use EMACS. Not sorry about that.
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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.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The Illinois state politician suspected of wearing a wire as part of a federal corruption investigation has resigned from a state ethics commission after he was charged with tax evasion.
State Sen. Terry Link, D-Indian Creek, was indicted on federal tax evasion charges Thursday for taxes owed from 2016, according to a charging document filed in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.
Link could not immediately be reached for comment.
"[Senate] President [Don] Harmon has accepted Senator Link’s resignation as a member of the Legislative Ethics Commission," said John Patterson, a spokesperson for Harmon.
Link filed a tax return for the calendar year 2016 that stated income of $264,450 even though he knew his total income substantially exceeded that amount, according to a one-page criminal information document filed in federal court.
Prosecutors often charge defendants using an information document if they expect a guilty plea.
Link last year denied he was the politician who wore a wire for federal prosecutors that led prosecutors to file bribery charges against former state Rep. Luis Arroyo in 2019.
"Stick in there, fight, do whatever, and so they're not mad at me," Link told news hounds asking about the wire last year. "I don’t represent you. I represent them. ... You know I’ve been around for a long time. I know how people like to twist my words."
Arroyo resigned after being charged.
A footnote in the charging documents against Arroyo identified the unnamed state senator who agreed to wear a wire as "Cooperating Witness 1." It also noted the senator had been working with the FBI until Nov. 3, 2016.
At that point, he was "closed as a source" because FBI agents learned he had filed false income tax returns.
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The president tweeted Friday that the directly payments, $3,400 for a family of four, are being held up by Democrats. "I’m waiting for the Democrats to approve it," Trump said during a briefing at the White House.
Scoop: Postal workers union National Association of Letter Carriers endorses Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, assailing the Trump administration's actions and warning that the "survival" of the USPS is at stake. https://t.co/5aeEFDGaZD
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Government should recommend that mail-in ballots be delivered in person to the ballot boxes on election day if you want to ensure your vote is counted.
Also - Wear a mask to the polls, bring a drivers license or other proof of identity tell the black men with machetes that you voted D if you need to to get by them to cast your vote. Vote more than once, no matter how many houses in the US you own and you will go to prison for election fraud.
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During the 1997 UPS strike, I had the joyful occasion to go to our local Post Office to get a package delivered. There was a fair sized line at the counter (with only one of four employee stations open at 9:30 in the morning).
A guy at the counter was grumbling a bit and the Postal worker said "I'll bet you're glad that you have the US Post Office, then."
He replied "Lady, if it wasn't for the Post Office, there'd be no UPS."
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[NYPOST] President Trump on Thursday predicted that far-left Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez would mount a challenge against Sen. Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 44.69181 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... — and defeat him.
"Schumer’s going to get beaten by her. She’s going to run against Schumer, and he knows that and he’s going to get beaten by her unless you can talk her out of doing it. He has no chance," Trump said on "Fox News Business."
"Chuck Schumer will be, in my opinion. AOC will run against Chuck Schumer for the Senate. Yeah, I mean, I think. And I think she’ll win," the president said.
The 30-year-old Democratic socialist is running for her congressional seat this November after defeating a challenger in the June primary.
Schumer, 69, the Senate minority leader, was elected to his fourth six-year term in 2016.
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Good move by Trump to make Schumer and AOC start pushing each other’s buttons while New York is drowning.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Grayson County Commonwealth’s Attorney Brandon Boyles is demanding an investigation into the Virginia Parole Board’s decision to release another convicted murderer, despite documents showing his office received proper notification.
The request for investigation comes about a week after the public was made aware of an Office of the State Inspector General report that found that the parole board broke the law when releasing a different prisoner convicted of murder, Vincent Martin.
The report said the board did not properly notify the Commonwealth’s Attorney in the case, did not "endeavor diligently" to seek comments from the victim’s family and only sought testimony that would provide evidence for Martin’s release. The board has denied these allegations.
Boyles told The Center Square on Thursday he is concerned the parole board also may have broken laws and protocol in a case involving the release of Robert Dwayne Godfrey, leading him to request an investigation from OSIG.
Godfrey pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in 1994 in the death of Albert Haywood Hamilton Sr.
Boyles' initial complaint claimed said he had not received proper notification from the board. The parole board, however, provided The Center Square on Thursday with a receipt of the notification letter signed by Boyles' secretary. Boyles said the signature looks authentic, but his secretary does not recall the letter and he was not made aware of the letter.
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They should have to spend the first month of release with a Parole Board member's family. Cozy
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Parole board probably all appointed. Politically upstream of prosecutor. Good luck.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI...
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The Illinois state 
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 44.69181 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
