U.S. Attorney John Durham, who was tapped in April 2019 to investigate the origins of the FBI’s Russia probe that relied on dubious information to spy on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, has emerged from the abyss to make a sentencing suggesting.
Durham on Thursday filed a motion in court requesting a federal judge sentence former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who pleaded guilty to altering a CIA email relating to former Trump campaign aide Carter Page, to a prison term “between the middle and upper end” of the allowable sentencing guidelines. Clinesmith altered an email from the CIA saying that Page had previously provided information to the agency in order to make it look like Page had not previously worked with the agency, thereby making his past dealings with Russian officials appear suspicious. The altered email helped the FBI continue to secure FISA surveillance warrants against Page.
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