Justice is Finally Served in FISA-Gate Affair!, 3485

Well, you will be somewhat pleased to know that finally justice has been served on one of the FBI’s perpetrators of the FISA court/ spygate/Trump/Russia scandal –which engaged the nation’s lawmakers for more than 4 years.
Kevin Clinesmith, the former FBI attorney who still holds the distinction of being the ONLY government official indicted for anything related to this, the political hoax of the century, has finally been found guilty of something. He forged an email that resulted - at least in part – in the FISA court giving permission to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter page, and perhaps the President, himself.
US District Court Judge James Boasberg sentenced Clinesmith to a whopping 12 months of probation for forging that email, plus 400 hours of community service.
Clinesmith will have to spend 8 hours per week for the next year listening to the entire collection of the speeches of Barak Obama as provided by the National Archives.
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Judge Boasberg lambasted Clinesmith’s forgery as an “inappropriate shortcut.”
He agreed with Clinesmith’s defense team, that the FBI attorney did not intend to lie when he forged a CIA document. The forgery gave the mistaken impression that Page was a spy working for Russia, instead of the truth, that Page was actually working for CIA.
This forgery nearly destroyed Page’s life, as well as the life and career of General Michael Flynn.
This was THE key element of evidence that allowed the intelligence community to launch its massive surveillance tools directed at the President of the United States and everyone on his team.
The “inappropriate shortcut” taken by Clinesmith helped the FBI build the narrative (known more commonly as a B.S. story), that Page was the connection for incoming President Trump to connect directly to Russian intelligence headquarters, and ultimately directly to President Putin, himself. This was supposed to justify Trump’s impeachment and removal from office very early on in his tenure as President.
It is remarkable that so many reporters in Washington’s news colony were able to ignore the massive credibility holes in this story. The three reporters who led the way out of the dark forest of FBI & CIA disinformation were John Solomon, Sara Carter and Molly Hemingway – all contributors to Fox News.
It is they who should have won the Pulitzer on these matters, instead of the Washington Post, who should return the prize for being soooo wrong on this story and helping to lead millions of Americans astray over the last 4 years.
I'm still reporting from just outside the Citadel of American freedom. Good day.