BREAKING: FBI Lawyer That Altered FISA Email In Russia-Probe Makes Ridiculous Request
The FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to altering an email to the FISA court is asking to not receive jail time. He apparently doesn't feel like his action warrants jail time and instead would like to be placed on probation instead.
The lawyer's attorney made this bold and brazen request during Thursday's memorandum.
"Kevin Clinesmith admitted in August to having altered an email used in support of an FBI application to monitor the communications of a former Trump campaign aide, Carter Page. Clinesmith's lawyers said that although he believed the information he wrote was accurate, he knowingly doctored the email by stating that Page was “not a source” for the CIA.
“By altering a colleague’s email, he cut a corner in a job that required far better of him. He failed to live up to the FBI’s and his own high standards of conduct,” his lawyers wrote. “And he committed a crime.”
They said it was “an aberration in a life otherwise characterized by hard work, determination, and dedication to the service of others.”
An FBI agent then used the altered email to convince a judge that the bureau's surveillance of Page must continue. Clinesmith's attorneys said he did not knowingly lie about Page's relationship with the CIA."
To understand the gravity of CLinesmith's 'lapse in judgment' you have to understand that the email he altered was used to renew the FISA warrant to investigate Trump's administration despite there being no grounds to continue.
Clinesmith's arrest is part of John Durham's investigation into the bogus Russian-probe that plagued President Trump's presidency for years. The U.S Attorney from Connecticut was appointed by AG William Barr to bring corruption to light and guilty parties to justice.
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Last year, a report by the Justice Department's inspector general revealed several errors and misstatements that effectively inflated the justification to monitor Page in 2016 and 2017. The inspector general's office revealed in its report that Clinesmith doctored the email and referred the matter to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation.