{"id":44949,"date":"2020-08-14T14:11:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T19:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44949"},"modified":"2020-08-14T14:11:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T19:11:47","slug":"wapo-ex-fbi-lawyer-accused-of-falsifying-document-in-probe-of-trumps-campaign-to-plead-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44949","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Ex-FBI lawyer, accused of falsifying document in probe of Trump\u2019s campaign, to plead guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/kevin-clinesmith-fbi-trump-russia-john-durham\/2020\/08\/14\/2f579994-de26-11ea-809e-b8be57ba616e_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_fbiprobe-1215pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans\">Ex-FBI lawyer, accused of falsifying document in probe of Trump\u2019s campaign, to plead guilty<\/a> by Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A former FBI lawyer has agreed to plead guilty to altering an email that helped justify surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser as part of the 2016 investigation into Russian interference in the election, according to his lawyer and a person familiar with the matter.<\/p><p>Kevin Clinesmith, who worked in the FBI general counsel\u2019s office, is expected to admit he doctored an email so it said that former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page was not a source for the CIA, even though Page previously had a relationship with the agency. Relying on what Clinesmith had said, the FBI ultimately did not disclose Page\u2019s relationship with the CIA as it applied to renew a warrant to monitor him as a possible agent of a foreign power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Ex-FBI lawyer, accused of falsifying document in probe of Trump\u2019s campaign, to plead guilty by Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44950,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44949\/revisions\/44950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}