The State protects its own

[George K]

Michael Flynn was railroaded into confessing that he "lied" to an FBI agent and spent years and countless dollars defending himself before being pardoned.

Now, Kevin Clinesmith the FBI agent who FORGED an email about Carter Page for FISA is sentenced:

12 months probation.
400 hours community service.
$100 fine.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/29/kevin-clinesmith-sentencing-carter-page-john-durham/

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.” (RELATED: Carter Page Wants A Say At Kevin Clinesmith’s Hearing)

Clinesmith helped the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team, which investigated possible links between the Russian government and Trump campaign, draft applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants on Page.

It's good to be in the nomenklatura.

[Horace]

pop culture privilege.

[LuFins Dad]

Deep State

[George K]

WSJ:

A surveillance judge clarifies that the FBI can falsify evidence without much fear of punishment.
The government employees of the “resistance” who never accepted Donald Trump as our president have finally performed a useful public service. Together with the judges of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, they have demonstrated for all Americans how easy it is to turn the spying tools of the federal government against domestic political opponents.

Even after the Obama-appointed inspector general of the Department of Justice found “at least 17 significant errors or omissions” in a series of approved surveillance warrant applications to spy on Trump associate Carter Page—and even after a criminal conviction of an FBI attorney for doctoring an email to make it appear that the patriotic Mr. Page had never assisted U.S. intelligence—the FISA judges are still refusing to apply any significant punishment to the government officials who misled them.