Policing One's Own

For John, BLUF:  Professions, as Professor Sam Huntington told us, includes a self-policing function.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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DC Fails To Disbar Anti-Trump FBI Lawyer Despite Guilty Plea

From Real Clear Investigations, by Reporter Paul Sperry, 28 January 2021.

Here is the lede plus two:

As the U.S. government seeks prison time for a former FBI lawyer who admitted falsifying evidence to spy on a former Trump aide, the District of Columbia Bar association hasn’t begun an investigation to strip him of his law license, records show.

The defendant, Kevin Eugene Clinesmith, is still listed as an “active” attorney in “good standing” with the Democrat-controlled D.C. Bar, despite his having pleaded guilty more than five months ago to illegally altering a document used for authorization to electronically eavesdrop on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page as part of the FBI’s Russiagate probe.

A search of the D.C. Bar’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel database of "disciplinary proceedings" turns up no such proceedings against Clinesmith, even though his guilty plea was reported to the bar and the bar's board has received at least one formal complaint demanding his disbarment.

This was from Thursday and on this Friday Mr Clinesmith was sentenced.  Perhaps on Monday the DC Bar will reverse course.

As a responsible Citizen, I apologize to Mr Carter Page for the actions of our Government.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff