1) On OGC Attorney email falsification - presumably Clinesmith:
"In an email from the liaison to the OGC Attorney, the liaison provided written guidance, including that it was the liaison's recollection that Page had or continued to have a relationship with the other agency."
"In an email from the liaison to the OGC Attorney, the liaison provided written guidance, including that it was the liaison's recollection that Page had or continued to have a relationship with the other agency."
2) The liaison "directed the OGC Attorney to review the information that the other agency had provided to the FBI in August 2016. As noted above, that August 2016 information stated that Page did, in fact, have a prior relationship with that other agency."
3) "following a 28 minute telephone call between the OGC Attorney [Clinesmith] and the OI Attorney, the OGC Attorney forwarded to the OI Attorney the liaison's email (but not the original email from the OGC Attorney to the liaison setting out the questions he was asking)"
4) "The OI Attorney responded to the OGC Attorney [Clinesmith], "thanks I think we are good and no need to carry it any further."
5) "However, when OGC Attorney [Clinesmith] subsequently sent the liaison's email to SSA2 the OGC Attorney altered the liaison's email by inserting the words "not a source" into it, thus making it appear that the liaison said that Page was "not a source" for the other agency."
6) "Relying upon this altered email, SSA 2 signed the third renewal application that again failed to disclose Page's past relationship with the other agency."
Sounds like Clinesmith is in some serious trouble. This was not a minor alteration.
Sounds like Clinesmith is in some serious trouble. This was not a minor alteration.
