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Dec. 5, 2020 - The Dan Bongino Show
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The Bongino Brief - Dec 05, 2020

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Hey, Dan Bongino here with a little extra bonus.
There's a new way for you to listen to my content if you have an Alexa device.
Every morning, we post what's called the Bongino Brief, a quick highlight of one of the biggest stories we talk about here on the podcast, designed for your Alexa's flash briefing skill.
Right now, you're going to hear today's Bongino Brief.
And after that, we're going to tell you how to get the brief on your device.
Dan Bongino.
Welcome to the Bongino Brief.
I'm Dan Bongino.
Just quick Spygate update.
You know I'm not confident in the DOJ.
You know that.
People ask me, well, who's going to wind up in handcuffs and nobody's going to jail?
I don't know.
I wish I knew.
I am not an insider in the swamp.
I am an outsider doing the best I can to pressure everyone to do the right thing.
But I can tell you yesterday, on a sliver of good news, I'm not suggesting this is like everyone should celebrate, pop the Vouv, start drinking the champagne and wine.
I'm not saying that.
I'm just saying in a bit of good news, John Durham, special counsel assigned to investigate Spygate, again, in the giving hits file, has zero hits to give and is trying to drop the hammer on at least one of the people involved in the targeting.
Check out this piece in the Washington Examiner.
This is a piece of good news.
No celebrations!
It should have, but a piece of good news.
Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner.
Up in the show notes again today, this piece, if you want to read it.
John Durham, an ex-FBI lawyer, duel over prison sentence for FISA email deception.
I'm going to give you this summary in a nutshell first, and I'll walk through what happened.
So, remember in the Spygate case, there was an FBI lawyer.
That FBI lawyer was asked to look into Carter Page.
Carter Page was a foreign policy advisor on the Trump team.
Carter Page had had some contact with Russians.
It's a very simple story.
That contact with Russians, ladies and gentlemen, was at the request of our intelligence community, who was using Carter Page as a source.
Everybody dig?
In other words, Carter Page was doing his patriotic duty as an American to nail some Russian spies.
Wouldn't it be kind of crappy, Joe?
Wouldn't you think?
If you were working for the U.S.
government intel community trying to nail Russian spies, and then another government agency's trying to prosecute you for chatting with Russian spies?
I'm just throwing that out there.
Sounds kind of like a terrible thing to do, no?
Well, that's exactly what happened in this case.
An FBI lawyer was tasked by another FBI agent to check to see if Carter Page's contact with these Russians was legitimate on behalf of our government or was some shady activity.
And when the Central Intelligence Agency got back to the FBI lawyer and said, no, this guy's a source for us, that's why he's talking to these Russians, the FBI lawyer altered the email to write, he was not a source.
Kind of a bad thing to do.
So what's the development?
Why are we talking about this now?
Because this FBI lawyer is trying to snake his way out of prison!
Oh my gosh, my reputation is ruined!
Spare us the crocodile tears, brother!
Michael Flynn, patriot, hero, Red-blooded American patriot had not only his life, but his financial life, his family's life, his wife's life, his brother's life, and anyone who touched him, their lives were ruined.
And I didn't see anybody in the media crying crocodile tears for him.
So hard pass.
It's one thing to be merciful.
It's another thing to be stupid.
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Dorham in the hits file is giving exactly zero hits.
What do I mean?
Let's go to screenshot number one.
So Clinesmith, the FBI lawyer who doctored the email, is trying to get out of jail time.
Special counsel John Dorham saying, no, no, no thanks.
Here, this is in the paperwork they filed yesterday.
This is from Durham to the judge.
The government respectfully submits that a sentence of incarceration that is at least between the middle and upper end of the sentencing guidelines is appropriate and warranted, Durham said.
This case is outside the heartland of typical cases under false statements charges and such a sentence would reflect the seriousness of the offense.
Again, am I patting John Dorham on the back?
Am I getting, am I celebrating?
Are we cracking the bottle on 1942?
No, I'm just telling you folks, when there's good news, there's good news and we shouldn't ignore it.
This is a good thing.
Dorham is saying, not only is this guy going to go to jail if it's up to us.
Joe, did you catch it?
He said, not only go to jail, but we want the sentencing at the upper end of jail time.
Good, good.
Thank you.
Clinesmith, of course, who doctored the email.
Clinesmith's still trying to weasel his way out of this.
Here's their response.
This is from Clinesmith's lawyer, the FBI lawyer.
The FBI lawyer is a lawyer.
He says significantly, however, Kevin Kleinsmith did not knowingly lie about the relationship between Individual One and the other government agency, the CIA.
When Kevin informed the agent that Individual One, Carter Page, was not a source, he genuinely believed he was conveying accurate information.
Kleinsmith's lawyer also contended.
Really?
Folks, I'm not going to go into all the inner wonkery of the case, but I'll leave you... If you believe this, I've got a bridge in Palm City near my house to sell you.
Super cheap.
One more.
Dorham.
So we get a... This is like ping pong.
Dorham.
Clientsmith.
Back to Dorham.
Dorham's still not having any of this.
We're not cracking a champagne, but this is gonna... Dorham's like, nah, we don't care.
No thanks.
Check this out.
Good for Dorham, by the way.
Laying the hammer.
Bull Dorham here.
Durham said, quote, to the extent that Clinesmith argues that he's already been punished due to loss of employment and is possible disbarment due to this felony conviction, these circumstances should not mitigate his sentence because these collateral consequences are entirely the result of his own wrongdoing.
Hey, Kenny Bell time.
Love you, Kenny Bell.
There you go.
You gotta stop.
You always have to stop.
But good for you.
Durham's like, I don't really care.
And ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry, I believe in forgiveness, but forgiveness requires some form of repentance and repentance requires some form of punishment in a just legal season.
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's.
Render unto God what is God's.
And although we're not living under Caesar, thank the Lord, we are living in a constitutional republic where Kevin Clinesmith broke the law.
And I'm sorry, but I care very little about Kevin Clinesmith ruining his own reputation and potentially being disbarred as a lawyer because he was too foolish to do the right thing, and he did the easy thing.
Good for John Dorham.
We'll see what else he gets.
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Okay, that was today's Bongino Brief.
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On your phone or tablet, open your Alexa app.
Click the hamburger menu in the upper left-hand corner.
Select Settings, then select Flash Briefing.
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