“It would be cumbersome if we do have to start filing pleadings during the litigation on paper. That’s going to be more difficult,” Fisher said. “Particularly during COVID. Most of us are working from home.”
The Russian intrusion through the SolarWinds software has President Joe Biden in an early tussle with his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin, and U.S. senators are worried about the “grave risk” to U.S. intelligence.
The Administrative Office of U.S. Courts confirmed the court system breach on Jan. 6, joining a victims list that includes the State Department, the National Institutes of Health, tech companies and an unknown number of Fortune 500 companies. U.S. officials have linked the effort, which went on for much of 2020, to elite Russia hackers.
He says “courts all over the country rely on representations from the government, and expect them to be correct.”
However, Boasberg somehow came to the conclusion that Clinesmith’s actions were not motivated by political bias, he even defended him saying that he believed Clinesmith thought that the doctored information he submitted to the FISA court was accurate.
Clinesmith will just have serve 12-months of probation along with 400 hours of community service.
US Attorney John Durham pointed out that Clinesmith sent out anti-Trump text, admitting his disdain for Trump which “made him more willing to engage in the fraudulent and unethical conduct to which he has pled guilty.”
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Kevin Clinesmith is the former FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to falsifying a 2017 CIA e-mail related to the bogus Russian collusion investigation launched by the FBI against Donald Trump and some of his aides. Clinesmith’s criminal deception deprived the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of accurate information critical to its determination of whether to renew its electronic surveillance authorization against former Trump campaign associate Carter Page. The Department of Justice requested a jail sentence for Clinesmith of up to 6 months. Instead, Clinesmith received a slap on the wrist and words of sympathy from Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, an Obama nominee. Judge Boasberg also happens to be the chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that Clinesmith had a hand in misleading.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) Trial lawyer Robert Fisher is handling one of America’s most prominent counterintelligence cases, defending an MIT scientist charged with secretly helping China. But how he’ll handle the logistics of the case could feel old school: Under new court rules, he’ll have to print out any highly sensitive documents and hand-deliver them to the courthouse.
Until recently, even the most secretive material about wiretaps, witnesses and national security concerns – could be filed electronically. But that changed after the massive Russian hacking campaign that breached the U.S. court system’s electronic case files and those of scores of other federal agencies and private companies.