Clinesmith

Kevin Clinesmith an FBI lawyer who was found guilty of forgery in the Trump-Russia probe has been restored to good standing meaning he can once again practice law. He admitted on August 2020 to falsifying a document that was the basis for a surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign official Carter Page. Once the government had permission to surveil Page they could then surveil any and all people that Page contacted and this lead to surveilling most of the people in the Trump administration including the White House. Since his appointment in May of 2017, Special Counsel Robert Mueller racked up a lengthy record of court wins, but none of them answered some of the central questions the public had about his investigation into potential collusion between President Donald Trump or his campaign and Russia. The three year Mueller investigation that started with surveilling Page ended with no collusion. This special prosecutor would never have been appointed if it hadn't been for a forged document presented to the FISA court. Even with the advantage of secretly listening in on private conversations they still were unable to come up with proof of collusion.A