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By Adam Goldman
An ex-F.B.I. The lawyer intends to plead guilty after being charged with falsting a document as part of an agreement with prosecutors to conduct his own criminal investigation into the Russia investigation, according to his lawyer and court documents made public on Friday.
The lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, 38, who has been assigned to the Russia investigation, plans to admit that he replaced an E-mail from the C.I.A. Investigators have relied on the renewal of the court’s authorization in 2017 for a covert telephone intervention from Trump’s former crusader saw,. Mr Clinesmith’s lawyer stated that he had made a mistake in trying to explain the facts to a colleague.
Clinesmith had written texts expressing his opposition to President Trump, who promptly promoted the plea agreement as evidence that the Russia investigation is illegitimate and politically motivated. He opened a press convention on blanks by calling Clinesmith “corrupt” and the deal “just the beginning.”
Trump has long insisted that the ongoing investigation through Prosecutor John H. Durham is a political praise he would like to see in the weeks leading up to the election.
Prosecutors have no evidence in the documents that Clinesmith’s movements were part of a broader plot to undermine Trump. And Justice Decomponentment’s independent inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, discovered that law enforcement officials had sufficient reason to open the Russia investigation and did not discover evidence that they had acted politically.