Tuesday, May 19, 2020

The Arts of Government Criminality

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n. the entire 2016-19 efforts to derail the Trump campaign, transition, and presidency, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Steele, and the FBI, Department of Justice, CIA, and other government bureaus have consistently sought to distort reality.

The inspector general Michael Horowitz found that FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith altered an email that he submitted as part of a FISA court request to monitor Carter Page.

Clinesmith altered this email to make it say that Page had not worked for the CIA. Apparently, his FBI superiors either did not know of Clinesmith's felonious behavior or ignored it, despite the FBI's role in obtaining government permission to surveille a U.S. citizen who has never been charged with a crime - though the government did leak to the press that Page was under surveillance.

FBI attorney Lisa Page and Peter Strzok altered the 302 report of the FBI's Flynn questioning, again apparently in an effort to misrepresent the agents' on-site and initially positive impressions that Flynn was truthful, despite the circumstances of the agents' planned perjury ambush.

Apparently the original 302 had become so heavily altered, with Page sending edits to Strzok, who inserted them into the file alongside his own changes, that the FBI eventually submitted instead as evidence a later interview of Strzok's about his original interview of Flynn.

The FBI Steele dossier was leaked by the FBI - most likely by the FBI's top lawyer James Baker - to Yahoo and Mother Jones before the election.

Who leaked to the press the unmasking of Michael Flynn, both his conversation with the Russian ambassador and the fact that he was interrogated by the FBI? We will likely no more learn of the leaker's identity than we will discover which lawyer of the Mueller dream team leaked in advance to the media the written questions about "Collusion" and "Obstruction" that they were sending to Trump.


https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/the-arts-of-government-criminality/

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