This article was originally published by Duncan Smith at The National Sentinal.
It’s taken a long time, but finally, there is at least some justice for President Trump and his one-time campaign aide, Carter Page.
Months after U.S. Attorney John Durham’s analysis of the origins of the ‘Russiagate’ probe turned into a criminal investigation, former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith has pleaded guilty to falsifying a FISA court document.
Fox News has the story:
U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia James Boasberg accepted the plea. Clinesmith’s sentencing date has been set for Dec. 10 at 11 a.m. ET.
Clinesmith was referred for potential prosecution by the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office, which conducted its own review of the Russia investigation.
The inspector general accused Clinesmith, though not by name, of altering an email about former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page to say that he was ‘not a source’ for another government agency.
Page has said he was a source for the CIA.
The Justice Department relied on Clinesmith’s assertion as it submitted a third and final renewal application in 2017 to eavesdrop on Page under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
During the plea hearing, Boasberg asked Clinesmith to affirm that he “intentionally altered an email, and added language” that “individual number one” was “not a source…and you knew that statement was in fact not true.”
Clinesmith replied, “At the time I thought the information I was providing was accurate, but I am agreeing the information I inserted was not originally there, and I inserted the information.”
Boasberg then asked: “You intentionally altered the email to insert information that was not originally in the email?”
“Yes, your honor,” replied Clinesmith.
“Kevin deeply regrets having altered the email. It was never his intent to mislead the court or his colleagues as he believed the information he relayed was accurate. But Kevin understands what he did was wrong and accepts responsibility,” Clinesmith’s attorney Justin Shur said in a statement.
No, Clinesmith regrets getting caught, is the more accurate statement.
And here’s hoping he sang like a bird and fingered those he worked for because he obviously didn’t cook up this Russiagate hoax himself.
I do not think that there is amy possibility that America will improve in my lifetime as a result of systemic corruption, polarization, and animosity. I do not think that the biggest group of geniuses who had the most morally upright charcter could solve the problems of this country because in order for the dysfunctionalism to cease, cooperation of individuals is absolutely essential. People are at each others throats and many are unwillingy to admit that they are wrong, regardless of how many facts are thrown at them proving that they are wrong, Russia-gate, and covid-hysteria lockdown hoax covid economy and covid contact spying are clear examples of this.
There were individuals in the press on the left that I respected prior to covid that have been substantially diminished as a result of their loyalty to the covid hysteria, lockdowns, and increasing surveillance, and revocation of rights. I still agree with their anti-war policies, but I disagree with their pro-China stance. I am not anti-China in the sense that I would like to start war with China or sanction China, but I am not pro-China either and am extremely suspicious of their motives in their efforts in globalization. If people choose to overlook the problems that China has had with America regarding decades of one-way trade deals where China repeatedly has the upper-hand and keeps finding different reasons to refuse more American imports in addition to many other intellectual property disputes and the South China Sea, or conflicts with Far East countries, and if people are willing to overlook China’s seizure of Brazillian gold mines in the Amazon ( hardly pro-environmen or anti-imperialist ) or their conflicts with people in Africa, then they should at least consider the way that the Chinese mistreat their own citizens and realize that if they treat their own citizens with authoritarianism and extreme censorship, that it is unlikely that they will remain unauthoritarian in foreign countries after the deals are done. America serves as a perfect example of this by showing that countries that do not treat their own citizens well, are not going to treat citizens of other countries well either. This is the nature of the globalists, regardless of which country they are from. It boils down to the same thing – exploitation of other sovereign countries.
The individuals in the anti-war left say that we must put our diffferences aside and all come together, but covid response and pro-China to the point of Sinophelia are differrences that I refuse to put aside, and their absolute refusal to admit that locking down the economy is diabolically evil just proves to me that these are individuals caught up in denying the existence of reality and “don’t confuse me with the facts, I listen to the chosen establishment propagandists.”
It is not possible for me to take those individuals seriously to work with towards a solution. It’s kind of like saying well we will solve this math problem together, but you must allow them to say that the first part of the equation is something that it is not, and I say no, I can’t go along with that because its wrong, and they say, well you don’t want to solve this problem together, but they are not even willing to admit what the problem actually is.
It is insane.
Things are debatable, like various social or economic policies, but when fiction is expected to be accepted as facts they are unreasonable and irrational.
Andrea Iravani
He won’t sing, because they have already promised him no more than a slap on the wrists so this stops right here with him,
Too bad they are covering up FOR Demented Donny EPSTEIN GUILTY Trump and his continuing TREASON FOR Epstein RAPING 911 MURDERING ISIS Beruit Nuking Israely buddies.