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Kevin Clinesmith
You can see several articles on him here: meaninginhistory.substa…
TL;DR version: he falsified documents in order to obtain the FISA warrant for the FBI to spy on Carter Page during Trump's 2016 campaign. This effectively allowed the FBI to spy on Trump. It was all about trying to catch Trump in criminal activity. When he …
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Kevin Clinesmith
You can see several articles on him here: https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/?sort=search&search=clinesmith
TL;DR version: he falsified documents in order to obtain the FISA warrant for the FBI to spy on Carter Page during Trump's 2016 campaign. This effectively allowed the FBI to spy on Trump. It was all about trying to catch Trump in criminal activity. When he turned out to not be a criminal they had to make stuff up - enter Hillary, the DNC, and the fake Steele dossier, and the Russia collusion hoax. The Russia hoax has had the added benefit for the deep state of ginning up anti-Russian vitriol to support their proxy war in Ukraine.
Thanks for that. I can't get the link you provided to work, but a somewhat vaguer version is at https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-fbi-lawyer-agrees-one-year-bar-sanction-after-conviction-2021-06-28/
I tried to send you to a substack search results page, maybe that doesn't work. Here are all the articles from Mark Wauk at Meaning in History. Wauk is retired FBI and very insightful about legal specifics of the whole Russia collusion hoax. We all know illegalities were involved, but his commentary (Clinesmith is mere fraction of what you can find at MiH re Russiagate) is most insightful for explaining not just legal specifics, but FBI procedural norms and how the multi-faceted Russiagate conspiracy flouted law and process, exposed conspiracies, and demonstrates the oligarchy's contempt for both rule of law and the people that they rule.
Truth is, while many of Malone's followers are just now learning that it was all a lie, Wauk's followers have known since 2017. My point is not to boast or criticize, but rather to say that because enough was known publicly to draw these conclusions - with limited disclosures - 4-6 years ago, it follows that Barr and Durham have also known since early 2019, which means that even this damning report is effectively a cover-up. They could have prosecuted many of these actors years ago but chose not to. Long live the deep state!
8/14/2020 - https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/kevin-clinesmith-pleads-to-one-falsehtml
8/14/2020 - https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/major-update-on-kevin-clinesmith-pleahtml
8/15/2020 - https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/clinesmith-and-bigger-contexthtml
8/19/2020 - https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/will-clinesmith-plead-guiltyhtml
8/19/2020 - https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/clinesmith-agrees-to-plea-dealhtml
9/1/2020 - https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/clinesmith-and-big-picture-conspiracyhtml
12/5/2020 - https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/read-thomas-lifson-re-clinesmithhtml