US Attorney John Durham has collected his first scalp in his criminal investigation into the origins of the Obama administration’s phony Russia investigation.
Durham was tapped by Attorney General William Barr in May of 2019 to investigate the Russian collusion hoax and determine whether any criminal charges against those who perpetrated it were warranted.
Kevin Clinesmith, a former FBI lawyer and member of the Meuller team, is expected to plead guilty felony charges of making false statements.
Clinesmith is the first person indicted in Durham’s probe. Read the full indictment below:
From the Federalist:
Clinesmith’s deliberate falsification of a federal spy warrant was first revealed last December following a lengthy investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), headed by Michael Horowitz. Horowitz and his team wrote in a 434-page report that Clinesmith — identified in the report as “OGC Attorney” — altered an email from a separate U.S. federal agency, believed to be the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to falsely state that Page had never worked with the CIA to investigate suspected Russia agents operating within the U.S. In fact, as Clinesmith was told by the operative, Page had worked with the CIA previously, as well as with the FBI.
According to the OIG report, Clinesmith “[o]mitted Page’s prior relationship with another U.S. government agency, despite being reminded by the other agency in June 2017, prior to the filing of the final [FISA warrant] renewal application, about Page’s past status with that other agency.”
“Instead of including this information in the final renewal application,” the OIG report stated, Clinesmith “altered an email from the other agency so that the email stated that Page was ‘not a source’ for the other agency, which the FBI affiant relied upon in signing the final renewal application.”
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AG Barr appeared on Sean Hannity’s show Thursday night and said there would be developments in the Durham investigation and that more would be coming. “Things are moving along at the proper pace as dictated by the facts in this investigation,” Barr said.