{"id":9316,"date":"2019-12-11T21:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T02:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=9316"},"modified":"2019-12-11T19:34:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T00:34:26","slug":"heres-an-essay-that-jibes-with-how-i-think-durham-will-attack-this-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/11\/heres-an-essay-that-jibes-with-how-i-think-durham-will-attack-this-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s an Essay That Jibes with How I Think Durham Will Attack This Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Charles Lipson wrote an article on Real Clear Politics called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2019\/12\/11\/unraveling_the_criminal_web_at_comeys_fbi_and_beyond__141937.html\">Unraveling the Criminal Web at Comey&#8217;s FBI and Beyond<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 In it he discusses the way that the FBI conspirators falsified the facts in the Carter Page and other Russiagate fishing expeditions in order to obtain FISA Court warrants and maintain them.<\/p>\n<p>His opening sentence lays out what I also think is how this investigation is being handled:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>The way to unravel a criminal conspiracy is to begin with the weakest links, the ones already doomed by convincing evidence. Knowing they face serious jail time, these \u201cweak links\u201d have powerful reasons to cooperate with law enforcement. Flipping on their fellow conspirators is the best way, perhaps the only way, to lessen their own sentences<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then he pinpoints who that weakest link is:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>So, who are the weakest links as Durham\u2019s investigation moves forward? One is surely Kevin Clinesmith, a lawyer in Comey\u2019s FBI who is highlighted in the Horowitz Report (pages 186-190). Sen. Lindsey Graham mentioned those pages in his Tuesday press conference. In them, Horowitz presents evidence that Clinesmith not only altered official documents, he completely changed their meaning. The altered documents painted Carter Page as a foreign spy; the originals said there was no evidence for that. The exculpatory evidence was hidden from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts. The lies helped gain a secret warrant to spy on Page<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The essay ends with some advice for Clinesmith and his associates:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Clinesmith, for one, has compelling incentives to say who knew what and when. He was apparently caught red-handed changing official documents. His lawyer ought to be seeking ways to lessen the criminal consequences. The only way to do that is to come clean.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anybody who worked with Clinesmith should be thinking the same thing. It would be good for them and it would be good for the country<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This fellow Clinesmith sounds like he is in for a world of hurt.\u00a0 Will he flip on his buddies?\u00a0 Gee, I hope so.\u00a0 Man, I hope he gives up Comey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatfinger.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7742\" src=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"3909\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4.png 3909w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4-300x65.png 300w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4-768x167.png 768w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4-1024x223.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3909px) 100vw, 3909px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Charles Lipson wrote an article on Real Clear Politics called \u201cUnraveling the Criminal Web at Comey&#8217;s FBI and Beyond.\u201d\u00a0 In it he discusses the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,245,237,6],"tags":[2234,2233,2158,1488,38,1355,2157],"class_list":["post-9316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-review-of-article","category-reviews","category-trump","tag-charles-lipson","tag-clinesmith","tag-john-durham","tag-on-line-article-review","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-united-states-attorney-john-durham"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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