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Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was charged Friday with a felony and has agreed to plead guilty to altering a document in the Russia collusion probe, the first criminal case to be brought in the investigation of U.S. Attorney John Durham, according to officials and a court document.

Ahead of his plea, Clinesmith was charged in federal court in Washington D.C. with one count of making a false statement for altering information he had received from the CIA in June 2017 to hide the fact that Trump campaign official Carter Page was a source for the Agency.

The alteration caused the Justice Department to make a false representation to the FISA Court that approved surveillance of Page for nearly a year, the criminal information filed by Durham states.

Clinesmith "did willfully and knowingly make and use a false writing and document knowing the same to contain a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement and entry in a matter before the jurisdiction of the executive branch and judicial branch," the court filing said.

The alteration caused the Justice Department to make a false representation to the FISA Court that approved surveillance of Page for nearly a year, the criminal information filed by Durham states.

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https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/breaking-ex-fbi-lawyer-plead-guilty-altering-evidence

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  • That's just a little fish. As long as they don't charge the big crooks and put them in jail, nothing will change. The Demcoms don't think they do anything wrong

    if they don't go to jail...so they'll keep doing it !

  • Guilty of treason, pleads to altering a document, gets essentially no real punishment! Nothing more to see here folks, don't worry about the high level criminals, karma will get them....

  • This is crap... he certainly has made earlier statements and if they were lies he lied to a Federal Agent and needs to be charged just like they did with LTG Flynn, George Papadopoulos, and others were charged.  Altering a document has a penalty of 5-10 yrs.

    • As usual, the Democrats protect their own.  Depressing that they get away with it. 

    • Last time I checked the GOP was in charge of the DOJ... so how did this bum get off without the Book being thrown at him...  AG Barr is an ass.  He should call in Wray and fire him... call in the prosecutor who filed these ridiculously weak charges and fire him and then throw the book at this bum.  Since AG Barr has allowed this miscarriage of justice to occur the President should call him in and fire him on the spot... then have the secret service escort him out of the building ... with his personal stuff in a brown paper bag.

  • Hey, who took the limp wet noodle? How do I perform his punishment, now that it is missing? Oh well, kev, we will just pretend we wheeped you across the knuckles, you may go now. But one other thing, keep your J walking to a minimum, we are a country of laws!

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