Ex-FBI Lawyer Receives Probation For Altering Email About Carter PageDaily Caller, Jan 29, 2021
Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was sentenced to probation on Friday for altering an email about former Trump aide Carter Page’s relationship with the CIA.
District Court Judge James Boasberg ordered Clinesmith to receive 12 months of probation and perform 400 hours of community service, a sentence far more lenient than the three and six months in prison sought by John Durham, the U.S. Attorney for Connecticut.
Clinesmith, who was an assistant general counsel in the FBI’s cyber law branch, pleaded guilty on Aug. 19, 2020 to altering a June 2017 email he received from a CIA employee regarding Page.
The CIA employee wrote that Page had been “a source†for the spy agency through 2013. Clinesmith forwarded the email to FBI colleagues but altered the document to say that Page was “not a source.â€
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