NYT Names FBI "Resistance" Lawyer Under Criminal Investigation For Fabricating FISA Docs | Zero Hedge https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nyt-names-fbi-resistance-lawyer-under-criminal-investigation-fabricating-fisa-docs

The New York Times has revealed that the "low-level lawyer" under criminal investigation for allegedly doctoring materials used to obtain renewals of the @carterwpage surveillance warrant is Kevin Clinesmith -

Clinesmith who worked on both the @HillaryClinton email investigation and the Russia probe, was part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team, and interviewed Trump campaign advisor @GeorgePapa19

Clinesmith is the former FBI lawyer responsible for the FISA surveillance conducted on members of the Trump campaign. He opposed Trump and sent an email after the election declaring "viva the resistance."

He is now under review for possible criminal charges for altering a FISA court filing. The FBI used Trump adviser Carter Page as the basis for the original FISA application, due to his contacts with Russians.

After that surveillance was approved, however, federal officials discredited the collusion allegations and noted that Page was a CIA asset. Clinesmith had allegedly changed the information to state that Page was not working for the CIA.

The Russia collusion allegations were based in large part on the dossier funded by the Clinton campaign and the @DNC. The Clinton campaign repeatedly denied paying for the dossier until after the election...

...when it was confronted with irrefutable evidence that the money had been buried among legal expenditures. As reporter Maggie , "Folks involved in funding this lied about it and with sanctimony for a year."

(Hillary is an expert at being sanctimonious)

Second, FBI agents had warned that dossier author Christopher Steele may have been used by Russian intelligence to plant false information to disrupt the election.

His source for the most serious allegations claims that Steele misrepresented what he had said and that it was little more than rumors that were recast by Steele as reliable intelligence.

Third, the Obama administration had been told that the basis for the FISA application was dubious and likely false. Yet it continued the investigation, and then someone leaked its existence to the media.

Another declassified document shows that, after the Times ran a leaked story on the investigation, even @petestrzok had balked at the account as misleading and inaccurate.

Fourth, the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller and inspectors general found no evidence of collusion or knowing contact between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.

What inspectors general did find were false statements or possible criminal conduct by Comey and others. While unable to say it was the reason for their decisions, they also found statements of animus against Trump and his campaign by the FBI officials leading the investigation.

Finally, @BarackObama and @JoeBiden were aware of the investigation, as were the administration officials who publicly ridiculed Trump when he said there was spying on his campaign.

Others, like House Intel Chairman @RepAdamSchiff, (and @RepSwalwell) declared they had evidence of collusion but never produced it.

Willful blindness has its advantages. The media covered the original leak and the collusion narrative, despite mounting evidence that it was false. They filled hours of cable news shows and pages of print with a collusion story discredited by the FBI.

Virtually none of these journalists or experts have acknowledged that the collusion leaks were proven false, let alone pursue the troubling implications of national security powers being used to target the political opponents of an administration.