Peter Strzok Lashes Out at John Durham As Kevin Clinesmith Pleads Guilty to One Charge of Making False Statements

8.20: 20: Update:

The discussion about the Clinesmith case continues at CTH, with Sundance saying that justice isn't being served.  It appears no evidence in the plea deal which indicates that Clinesmith had to cooperate in order to get a lenient sentence.

Nevertheless, anyone who cared enough can see the significance of what Clinesmith did.  But if the investigation stopped with Clinesmith, then the fix was truly in.  The article says that Barr says that more is coming.  There had better be.

But if it is a wrist-slap only, it wouldn't be a big surprise.  Washington DC is deeply corrupt.   They aren't about to admit it.  All the same, given what is already in plain sight, it should be a shocking thing to behold.

They DID know that Carter Page was no spy.  It is up to us to say it LOUDLY and OFTEN.  Otherwise, the public will go on believing that Page was a spy after all.  The fact that nothing is being done is all the more proof that these people need to be held to account.  If not in the courtroom, then in the voting booth.

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Comment:

The significance of this development cannot be overstated.    Clinesmith made it appear that Carter Page was something he was not in order to obtain a FISA warrant.  It is plain and simple fraud on a key point of their request.  Carter Page was a CIA asset, and Clinesmith said he wasn't.  Clinesmith defrauded the FISA court.

In case it needs repeating, this warrant invoked the "two-hop rule".  This is a very powerful surveillance tool that was abused in order to go after Trump.  The two-hop rule could lead right up to Trump himself, because the first hop includes people who talked to Page, and the second hop included those people and the people they talked to.  This is potentially a very wide circle of people.  Since Page was involved in the Trump campaign, this undoubtedly could lead to someone of the staff who talked to Page and who also talked with someone who talked with Trump.  See how that works?

That is why it is a key point.  Without this fraudulent request, the FISA warrant would have been toothless.  With it, it was anything but.  A very powerful tool used in a fraudulent and malicious way.

Keep in mind that this is the kind of thing Trump was impeached for.  But the Democrats have someone who has been convicted of something that one of their own did while they accuse Trump of doing what he didn't do.  Seems like a pattern, no?

Carter Page wasn't a spy, and they damned well knew it.