And They Got Away With It
Kevin Clinesmith was a martyr to the cause of “getting Trump,†and his service has been rewarded.
By Adam Mill
February 1, 2021
“There’s a lot of talk about FISA applications,†then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein began, addressing a sympathetic Trump-hating audience on May 1, 2018 during a “Law Day†celebration at the Newseum. Rosenstein beamed with moral superiority as he lectured Americans, and indirectly his boss, President Trump, on the importance of the apolitical application of the rule of law.
“Many people that I see talking about it seem not to recognize what a FISA application is,†Rosenstein continued. “A FISA application is actually a [request for] a warrant . . . . In order to get a FISA search warrant, you need an affidavit signed by a career federal law enforcement agent who swears that the information contained in the application is true and correct…and if it is wrong, that person can face . . . prosecution . . . . That’s the way we operate. We have people who are accountable.â€
Just 11 months earlier, Rosenstein signed the June 2017 FISA application seeking a final extension to continue spying on former Trump campaign figure Carter Page. That application contained a bald-faced lie that struck at the heart of the very constitution Rosenstein so often claimed to be protecting and upholding.
In one stroke, the Department of Justice undermined both the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure and the independence of the judiciary that cannot exist without candor and honesty from the government attorneys who practice before it.
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