12-05-2020, 08:56 PM
Quote:U.S. Attorney John Durham is seeking a prison sentence of up to six months for Kevin Clinesmith, a former FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to altering an email from the CIA regarding former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Durham asked a federal judge in a court filing on Thursday to sentence Clinesmith to a jail term “between the middle and upper end” of what federal sentencing guidelines recommend for the crime of making false statements in writing.
Clinesmith pleaded guilty to the charge on Aug. 19. He admitted to adding a phrase to a June 2017 email from a CIA employee who had provided information about Page’s relationship with the agency.
Page served as an “operational contact” for the CIA from 2008 to 2013.
Clinesmith contacted the CIA regarding Page as part of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible ties to the Russian government.
Clinesmith, who also worked on the special counsel’s team, forwarded his altered email to an FBI analyst who was putting together an application to renew a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant against Page.
Clinesmith’s email edit was discovered by the Justice Department, which was investigating the FBI’s FISA warrants against Page as well as the validity of the Crossfire Hurricane probe.
To date, this is the only arrest that's come from this treasonous act. Hopefully, there will be many more now that Barr has assigned Durham as Special Counsel. This gives Durham the right to prosecute.
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