Clinesmith was "the primary FBI attorney" on Crossfire Hurricane, according to Clinesmith himself to the DOJ IG in 2018, and IG's 2019 org chart shows him as the main attorney as well. Just in case the NYT wants to call him “low level” again.

On Nov 9, 2016, the day after Trump won the 2016 Election, in internal FBI instant messages Clinesmith said "The crazies won finally", "plus my god damned name is all over the legal documents investigating [Trump's] staff". On Nov 22, 2016, he also vowed "Viva le resistance"

Clinesmith was part of the SCO team interviewing @GeorgePapa19. GP actually claims Clinesmith "led" the questioning for a team of attorneys and FBI agents and analysts at his main Feb 10, 2017 interview, before his arrest in July 2017 (this is partially supported by the FBI 302)

On June 19, 2017 - just a month before Papadopoulos is charged with "obstruction" for records "altering" records - Clinesmith doctored an email from the CIA making it appear as though @carterwpage was "NOT" a source for the agency, when the CIA's liaison had said he WAS a source

This is then relied on by an FBI agent (Supervisory Special Agent 2, or SSA 2) swearing out a FISA surveillance renewal against Page, substantially misleading the FISA court about the probable cause to surveil an American citizen (and those he was in contact with)

An internal FBI instant message from Clinesmith confirms his intent in altering the email was to avoid disclosing to the FISA court that the target of the surveillance warrant Carter Page was actually a CIA source: "at least we don't have to have a terrible footnote"

Clinesmith admitted making this change to the email after being confronted by the DOJ IG nearly two years later, making this almost certainly a violation of 18 USC §1519, destruction/concealment of records, given the wording of the statute

Only a month later - July 27, 2017 - GP is arrested at Dulles Airport and charged the next day with the same crime - 18 USC §1519 destruction/concealment of records - that a month earlier one of the lead FBI Attorney's investigating GP appears to have committed himself.

CONCLUSION (1/6)

Papadopoulos was charged with §1001 false statements because he got a date wrong about when he met Mifsud, and §1519 destruction/obstruction because he got a new Facebook account (and a new cellphone.)

CONCLUSION (2/6)

Clinesmith appears to have conspired to lie to the FISA court, and destroyed/concealed a federal document under color of authority with an FBI badge, and he hasn't been charged with anything

CONCLUSION (3/6)

That's the very definition of a two tiered system of Justice.

CONCLUSION (4/6)

What's worse is that Clinesmith was part of the same SCO team that prosecuted Papadopoulos for a §1519 obstructive alteration crime he appears to have already committed *himself* only a month beforehand, while he was "primary FBI Attorney" on Crossfire Hurricane

CONCLUSION (5/6)

Is there a greater prosecutorial malevolence than charging someone with a crime when you surely know that they're innocent of it, and when you also know you've committed that exact same crime yourself? This belongs in an episode of The Shield with Vic Mackey

CONCLUSION (6/6)

US Attorney John Durham and AG Bill Barr now have to decide if they're going to hold anyone accountable for any of this.

And the media need to decide if they’re going to keep pretending none of this happened.

/ENDS

UPDATE: Thanks to @PatrickGunnels, you can listen to entire thread in around 15 minutes. Enjoy