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Significant moment in #Clinesmith hearing.
Judge: Do you agree when you added Carter was "not a source" "you knew such a statement was not in fact true"?
Clinesmith: "At the time I BELIEVED THAT THE INFORMATION I WAS PROVIDING IN THE EMAIL WAS ACCURATE ..."
Significant moment in #Clinesmith hearing.
Judge: Do you agree when you added Carter was "not a source" "you knew such a statement was not in fact true"?
Clinesmith: "At the time I BELIEVED THAT THE INFORMATION I WAS PROVIDING IN THE EMAIL WAS ACCURATE ..."
2. Clinesmith in full:
"At the time I BELIEVED THAT THE INFORMATION I WAS PROVIDING IN THE EMAIL WAS ACCURATE but I am agreeing that the information I inserted into the email was not originally there and that I inserted that information."
"At the time I BELIEVED THAT THE INFORMATION I WAS PROVIDING IN THE EMAIL WAS ACCURATE but I am agreeing that the information I inserted into the email was not originally there and that I inserted that information."
3. Upshot: It furthers the point that the the offense, and facts to which just Clinesmith agreed, are NOT about his knowingly and falsely saying Page was not a CIA source, and that Page was one.
Durham's case is oddly reduced down to Clinesmith altering the email document.
Durham's case is oddly reduced down to Clinesmith altering the email document.
4. @AWeissmann_ has been the best at describing key legal and policy questions raised by this specific and narrower charge.
