Former head of the FBI’s legal department, Kevin Klinsmith, is expected to plead guilty tomorrow during the trial. He is accused of fabricating the grounds for issuing a federal order allowing the FBI to begin spying on assistant to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, Carter Page.
The FBI “believed” that Page had become the object of the development of the Russian special services, and in 2016 asked the court to give the appropriate sanction.
The FBI’s justification stated that “Page, and possibly other members of Trump’s staff, are cooperating with Russia to interfere in the US elections.” At the same time, the bureau concealed that it used information from the so-called “Steel dossier” as suspicions against Page, all information from which was later officially declared insolvent.
Cleansmith became the first American intelligence official charged with organizing illegal surveillance of the campaign headquarters, and later the Trump administration.