Former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith’s alleged guilty plea in Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Russian probe should address any other potential suspect as a person of interest, said Chief Justice of the House Lindsey Graham, RS .C., Told “Hannity” Friday.
Graham told host Trey Gowdy that the news of Clinesmith’s wait marks a “great day for the rule of law”.
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Clinesmith will plead guilty to making a false statement in the first criminal case that emerged from Durham’s review of the FBI’s investigation into ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 campaign, two sources close to the case told Fox News earlier Friday.
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz previously accused Clinesmith, albeit not by name, of exchanging an email about former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page saying Page was “no source” for another government agency. Page said he was a source for the CIA. The DOJ relied on that assertion because it submitted a third and final renewal application in 2017 to pull off Page under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
“Something tells me that Mr. Clinesmith knows where the bodies are buried, and if I was in the FBI working on Crossfire Hurricane. [the Russia investigation]”I would be very worried at the moment,” said Graham.
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“An FBI attorney in charge of checking warrants will plead guilty to falsifying FISA court documents against a Trump adviser. And if you’m lucky, you’ll be in the mainstream media for 30 seconds. fine. “
If an FBI attorney had pleaded guilty to falsifying documents to prosecute Hillary Clinton’s advisers, Graham argued, it would be a different story in the press.
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“What this lawyer did is a very big deal. We have to trust the system, there has to be a certain amount of trust,” Graham said. “This is a lawyer, a man of the law, a member of the bar, who took it upon himself to falsify documents and conduct an investigation that needs to be stopped.
“This is a great day for transparency and the rule of law.”
Brooke Singman of Fox News and Bill Mears contributed to this report.
