December 5, 2020
FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who lied on Carter Page FISA warrant, may get a slap on wrist
By Thomas Lifson
The comparison of the treatment General Flynn received from Special Counsel Mueller and FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith is receiving from Special Counsel Durham is nauseating. General Flynn was bullied, bankrupted, and threatened with persecution of his son so badly that he signed a false confession to a nonexistent crime. And until his presidential clemency, Judge Sullivan continued the abuse.
Clinesmith, in contrast, pleaded guilty to altering an email so as to obtain an extension of the FISA warrant illegitimately obtained to electronically monitor not just Carter Page’s emails, phone calls and text messages, but those of everyone he communicated with (i.e., the Trump campaign). One does not alter an email submitted as evidence to court by mistake, it is a willful act of deception.
But now comes news that Durham is asking only for a sentence of a few months, at most, for an officer of the court who knowingly lied to the court. According to National Review,
In a court filing on Thursday, Durham asked the judge to sentence Clinesmith to a jail term “between the middle and upper end†of the recommended sentence for the crime of making false statements in writing.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/fbi_lawyer_kevin_clinesmith_who_lied_on_carter_page_fisa_warrant_may_get_a_slap_on_wrist.html
