Trump: Clinesmith Guilty Plea Is ‘Just the Beginning’ with ‘More to Come’

The former FBI attorney is not a minor player in the Russia collusion hoax. 

By Debra Heine August 14, 2020

President Trump on Friday said that news of former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith’s plea deal with Department of Justice prosecutors was “just the beginning,” signaling that U.S. Attorney John  Durham is zeroing in on other targets in his investigation.  Clinesmith is expected to plead guilty in connection with his alteration of an exonerating email during the Crossfire Hurricane (CH) investigation, which targeted members of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, including foreign policy adviser Carter Page.  In 2016, the CIA sent the email to CH investigators in response to their inquiry about the status of Page’s relationship with the CIA. Their response was not what the CH team was hoping for.

 When the CH team reached out to the CIA to confirm that information, the CIA responded with an email to Clinesmith. That message confirmed that Page had been a cooperative source of information for the CIA in the past — including a period of time being relied upon by the CH investigation to contend that Page was an “Agent of a Foreign Power” for FISA surveillance purposes. The email stated that Page was not currently in contact with the CIA, but that any information from him would be favorably received by the CIA.

Rather than include information that was favorable to their target to the FISA court, Clinesmith altered the wording on the email to indicate that Page was not a friendly source of information. Significantly, Clinesmith reportedly shared the original CIA email with case agents and supervisors on the CH team before drafting the bogus FISA application. It is now expected that the first two FISA warrants will be invalidated..........To Read More...

My Take - Let's not be disillusioned here.  He's the first, and that means he's going to spill his guts. Stzrok, Mueller and a host of others are going to start panicking and they will be crying, "let's make a deal", Ill squeal, I'll squeal.  Obama and his entire crowd are in trouble unless they can defeat Trump.