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An ex-FBI attorney received 12 months probation for falsifying a court document Friday.
Kevin Clinesmith must also perform 400 hours of community service.
His forged email resulted in court approval to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Federal Judge James Boasberg described Clinesmith’s forgery as an “inappropriate shortcut.” 
The judge agreed with the defense that Clinesmith did not intend to lie when he added the words “not a source” to the email.
Boasberg served as a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge who approved  applications to spy on Page and others in the Trump campaign.
The judge said he did not disagree with the findings of the Department of Justice Inspector General that Clinesmith was not motivated by his bias against President Donald Trump.
The government prosecutor argued for a prison sentence and disputed the claim that the defendant did not intend to lie.
Prosecutor Anthony Scarpelli said the forgery was “akin to identity theft” since Clinesmith impersonated a CIA liaison by changing the message. 
He said the “resulting harm is immeasurable.”
Clinsemith told the judge his email forgery was a “critical error in judgment.
“I harmed the very institutions I cherish,” he said.
The judge noted that he received roughly 50 letters attesting to Clinsemith’s character and could not ignore the harm the lawyer had already suffered.
He lost his FBI job and may lose his law license. 
The judge noted that Clinesmith was thrust into the center of a national scandal over illegal spying on the Trump campaign.
At the sentencing hearing, Page described the harm he suffered from the spying and related media leaks painting him as a Russian spy.
Page sought mercy and did not ask for prison time.
Prosecutor Scarpelli cited the cases of former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos and attorney Alex van der Zwaan.
Both were sentenced to prison for the same charge in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. 
Scarpelli argued that Clinesmith’s offense was worse than what Papadopoulos did.