Karen Bass’s Imbecilic Riot Evasions. Jun. 17, 2025. Subscribe; Login; ... But I’m sticking with “sort of.” If Clinesmith’s guilty plea is legally adequate, it is barely so.

Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith’s legal team is pleading with a judge not to send him to prison for lying to secure surveillance orders against President Trump’s 2016 campaign advise… ...

On June 15, a CIA liaison had told Clinesmith that Page had been a witting informant who reported information to the agency, a status denoted by a classified digraph (a two-letter symbol).

Kevin Clinesmith will also have to complete 400 hours of community service, Judge James Boasberg ordered. Prior to sentencing, Boasberg said he agreed that Clinesmith did not act with political ...

Clinesmith pleaded guilty in 2020 to altering email concerning then-Trump aide Carter Page Attorney ethics panel in Washington, D.C. set to hear proposed one-year bar suspension on July 19 ...

Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith will not serve jail time for changing a document that backed a surveillance warrant of former Trump associate Carter Page during the early Russia investigation ...

Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty last year to making a false statement. Kevin Clinesmith, a former FBI lawyer, has been sentenced to 12 months probation after altering an email used to justify ...

The former FBI attorney, Kevin Clinesmith, had pleaded guilty to altering an email used to get surveillance on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Accessibility links.

As for being an honest mistake, remember that Mr. Clinesmith changed an email confirming Mr. Page had been a CIA source to one that said the exact opposite, explicitly adding the words “not a ...

The former FBI lawyer who admitted to doctoring an email that other officials relied upon to justify secret surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser was sentenced Friday to 12 months of ...

According to Clinesmith’s lawyers, Clinesmith “thought” that this was the case, but when he went back and reviewed the email, he “realized that it did not specifically address the issue of ...

It was an almost unbelievable story—fit for a spy novel, and among the most disturbing and consequential allegations of governmental abuse in recent history. The alleged abuse went right to the ...