Kevin Clinesmith

The U.S. attorney probing the flawed counterintelligence investigation into Donald Trump’s campaign was appointed a special counsel in October, Attorney General William Barr revealed on Dec. 1. Barr directed U.S. Attorney John Durham last year to review the investigation. Durham’s review later turned into a criminal probe, which remains ongoing. In an Oct. 19 order […]

For the last four years, former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page has found himself at the center of the now-disproven Trump-Russia collusion allegations. Last year, Inspector General Michael Horowitz found that the FBI’s applications for warrants to spy on Carter Page were riddled with serious errors. Most notably, the applications were all missing a key […]

The FBI attorney who altered an email as part of the process to obtain a secret court warrant to spy on a former Trump campaign advisor Pleads Guilty

The plea hearing for the former FBI lawyer charged for allegedly altering an email during the probe into Trump’s campaign is scheduled for Aug. 19.

U.S. Attorney John Durham on August 14 charged a former FBI attorney with making a false statement, the first prosecution brought as part of an inquiry into the handling of Crossfire Hurricane, the codename for the FBI’s troubled investigation of the Trump campaign. Durham charged Kevin Clinesmith with one count of making a false statement […]