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08-19-2020, 11:56 AM

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/will-dam-break-after-clinesmiths-plea

Will The Dam Break After Clinesmith's Plea?

News reports have downplayed the significance of former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith’s guilty plea, acknowledging he altered an official document in the government’s Trump-Russia collusion probe. There has been some coverage, mainly because it is so rare to see FBI agents charged with a felony and because it is the first tangible result of U.S. Attorney John Durham’s sprawling investigation of the investigators. But mainstream news outlets have minimized its importance. It’s only one count, they say, and it deals with a relatively minor crime by a mid-level figure.

That’s spin, and it’s wrong. This plea is like finding water seeping from the base of a dam. The problem is not one muddy puddle. The problem is that it foreshadows the dam’s failure, releasing a torrent. That’s what the Clinesmith plea portends.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-923-18-usc-371-conspiracy-defraud-us
923. 18 U.S.C. § 371—Conspiracy to Defraud the United States

Hammerschmidt, 265 U.S. at 188.

The general purpose of this part of the statute is to protect governmental functions from frustration and distortion through deceptive practices. Section 371 reaches "any conspiracy for the purpose of impairing, obstructing or defeating the lawful function of any department of Government." Tanner v. United States, 483 U.S. 107, 128 (1987); see Dennis v. United States, 384 U.S. 855 (1966). The "defraud part of section 371 criminalizes any willful impairment of a legitimate function of government, whether or not the improper acts or objective are criminal under another statute." United States v. Tuohey, 867 F.2d 534, 537 (9th Cir. 1989).

The word "defraud" in Section 371 not only reaches financial or property loss through use of a scheme or artifice to defraud but also is designed and intended to protect the integrity of the United States and its agencies, programs and policies.

this image again becomes relevant

https://i.postimg.cc/0N9Cbq9S/crossfire.jpg

It should have been common knowledge 2-3 years ago that Carter Page was innocent and set the fuck up, and now this "conspiracy theory" can be tossed onto the conspiracy fact pile with 100% certainty (instead of 99.8% :lol: )

Clinesmith acknowledges he altered an email from the CIA to the FBI, answering a question about Carter Page.
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In 2017, after Clinesmith was tasked to the Mueller investigation, their team asked him to clarify Page’s relationship with U.S. intelligence. That’s when he took the CIA document and added a single word, “not.” The altered document said Carter Page was not a CIA asset. It was a deliberate lie.

Clinesmith is pleading guilty to inserting that word and changing the document. That’s a felony. What made his crime more significant is that the altered document was then presented to the secret court overseeing actions taken under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The special counsel included it in the fourth FISA application to spy on Page.

So now it can be fully understood by some that without this and a bunch of other very specific and purposeful actions, the spying case on Trump never happens - it was a Class 1 FISA that got approved on Page, and Class 1 means you're treated like patient zero in a plague epidemic - they are authorized to spy on you, everyone you've ever had contact with, and everyone they had contact with, extrapolate ad infinitum until .gov is satisfied and they dont want to spy on anyone else.

Carter Page was the vehicle used to spy on Trump, and a big key player in the scheme has pleaded guilty...more to come, fo sho!

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09-23-2020, 04:40 PM

Today, on behalf of the Trump Administration, the Department of Justice sent draft legislation to Congress to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The draft legislative text implements reforms that the Department of Justice deemed necessary in its June Recommendations and follows a yearlong review of the outdated statute. The legislation also executes President Trump’s directive from the Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship.

The Justice Department on Wednesday proposed new law to reform a key legal liability shield for the tech industry, known as Section 230.The bill, which is expected to pass Congress, focuses on two areas of reform.

DOJ
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-unveils-proposed-section-230-legislation-behalf-administration

Draft legislation
https://www.justice.gov/file/1319331/download

News link
https://archive.is/vukJl

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