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Kevin Clinesmith, former FBI lawyer, pleads guilty to falsifying Carter Page documents
This 2018 portrait released by the U.S. Department of Justice shows Connecticut’s U.S. Attorney John Durham. Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty to making a false statement in the first criminal case arising from U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation ... more...
By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times - Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty Wednesday to falsifying documents used to continue the surveillance of President Trump’s 2016 campaign aide Carter Page.
“Guilty,” Clinesmith said when asked by a federal judge for a plea.
Clinesmith admitted to altering an email in early 2017 to say Mr. Page was not a source for the CIA when in fact he was. He told a federal judge Wednesday that he believed at the time the information he provided was accurate.
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“At the time, I believed the information that I was providing in the email was accurate, but I am agreeing that the language that I entered into the email was not originally there, and that I inserted it in there,” he told the court.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who is overseeing the criminal case against Clinesmith, asked: “You intentionally altered the email to insert information that was not originally in the email?”
“Yes, your honor,” Clinesmith responded.
He could face up to five years in prison when he is sentenced on Dec. 10.
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The case against Clinesmith is the first brought by U.S. Attorney John Durham, who was appointed last year by Attorney General William P. Barr to review the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
That probe, dubbed Crossfire Hurricane, eventually morphed into former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
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