The content of the story is less important than the network within it.
The New York Times writes a story about John Durham issuing subpoenas to the Brookings Institute for records of Igor Danchenko’s work there. Danchenko was Chris Steele’s primary sub-source for the infamous Steele Dossier.
The material provided by Danchenko to Steele was described as unsubstantiated “gossip”, “rumor”, “hearsay” and innuendo by Danchenko himself after he was questioned by the FBI.
New York Times – […] Mr. Durham has keyed in on the F.B.I.’s handling of a notorious dossier of political opposition research both before and after the bureau started using it to obtain court permission to wiretap a former Trump campaign adviser in 2016 and 2017 and questioned witnesses who may have insight into the matter.
In particular, Mr. Durham has obtained documents from the Brookings Institution related to Igor Danchenko, a Russia researcher who worked there a decade ago and later helped gather rumors about Mr. Trump and Russia for that research, known as the Steele dossier, according to people familiar with the request.
By asking about the dossier, Mr. Durham has come to focus at least in part on re-scrutinizing an aspect of the investigation that was already exposed as problematic by a 2019 Justice Department inspector general report…. (read more)
The Backstory is…. In essence Chris Steele put a bunch of garbage inside his dossier, and his dossier was used to get the Carter Page FISA warrant to conduct surveillance against the Trump campaign (October 21, 2016). Danchenko then disavowed the veracity of all the information he provided during FBI interviews in January, February and March 2017; but the FBI ignored the Danchenko discussion and used the dossier for two more FISA renewals in April and June 2017.
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The issue of import with the story today is not about the content of the Danchenko work while inside the Brookings group, but rather how the leak from Brookings to the New York Times about the subpoena begins to unravel the Lawfare network.
The Lawfare group are largely funded by The Brookings Institute. Brookings is largely funded by the Chinese. As we pointed out during our research, essentially when you follow the trail you realize the Chinese Communist Government were financing the information that went into the Steele Dossier. But wait, it gets better….
The Lawfare group are also the “beach friends” group. The Lawfare group includes James Baker, Lisa Page, Benjamin Wittes and Daniel Richman. Once you realize who Lawfare consists of; and then you realize The Brookings Institute is behind Lawfare; you then realize the Lawfare group was likely feeding the opposition research into Danchenko while he worked for Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson who actually contracted Chris Steele for his dossier.
The FBI and DOJ officials working with Lawfare essentially provided raw information to Danchenko, who then packaged it and sent it to Chris Steele. Steele then puts the Danchenko package in his dossier and that is sent back to the FBI and DOJ for use in their FISA application. It is a laundry of weaponized political opposition research.
- FBI/DOJ extracted intelligence to Lawfare.
- Lawfare sends to Brookings (Danchenko)
- Danchenko sends to Chris Steele (dossier).
- Chris Steele sends Dossier back to FBI/DOJ.
- FBI/DOJ use dossier in FISA application.
See the laundry?
The Brookings institute tipping-off the New York Times about the Durham subpoena is actually more telling than the content of the subpoena itself.
Brookings is Lawfare. Benjamin Wittes runs Lawfare. He is personal friends with James Comey.
Benjamin Wittes is also personal friends with another Lawfare colleague Daniel Richman:
Daniel Richman is also personal friends with James Comey.
James Comey used Richman to leak his memo content to the New York Times:
China is Funding the Brookings Institute.
The Brookings Institute is funding Lawfare.
Lawfare is a group of current and former DOJ and FBI officials.
As a consequence, China funded the attack position of Lawfare and the DOJ/FBI against the Trump administration.
…. And no, I do not expect John Durham to expose any of this.
Yeah, Danschenko was the problem, that’s it!
And after the FBI attorney basically walked for purposefully changing/altering evidence to a Secret Court to allow surveillance on our duly elected President and his Administration what’s gonna happen?
We are in unchartered waters and the public has lost faith in justice.
What a total farce and aberration. The absurdity of it all, having to step all over the low hanging fruit of prosecution to investigate this? Clinton alone should of been able to bring down the whole house of cards.
Durham: “I hereby subpeona those dossier records!”
The American Public: “Mr. Durham, tell us what you found.”
Durham: “… well, you see, there is an ongoing investigation. There are sources and methods we must protect. We cannot reveal the internal discussions … don’t worry! We have the evidence under lock and key! It will not mysteriously disappear! Trust us.”
And cur the original “Raiders of the Lost Ark” finale as the crate is wheeled into the enormous warehouse … “Top men.. Top men..”
It is helpful to know for whom the criminal players work. It is more helpful to see them go down and be hung for treason and sedition. Such things apparently do not happen in America despite all the big talk, laws and such. So it’s all theater with no meaning or positive impact on our collective lives.
I agree. It’s like the Constitution never existed. With the JoeBama administration all laws and rights have been thrown to the wind.
It’s “HANGED”. I’m not Correcting you, I JUST wanted to say HANGED! I think the Rope Factories are ready
caught the double agent
The Cancer of Chinese money, and shady maniacal characters willing to take it.
The left has just put together an “Insurrection Movie” about Jan 6.
(Or did they have it in the works beforehand?)
Yet it takes Durcham 4 years to get around to Danchenko.
“On July 25, 2016, Comey apparently emailed Rybicki a link to a Lawfare article that asked what does the US government know about Russia and the DNC hack. ‘I suspect there will be more of these kinds of stories,’ Comey wrote.” ( NY Post)
There is more to the email from Comey to Rybicki than simply the improper use of private email in the FBI business. The email might have been hinting to the DNC and/or Lawfare group on what kind of media support Comey needed for more aggressive actions against Trump.
https://defyccc.com/undercover-comrade-james-comey/
Yes, anxiously looking forward to all the indictments sure to come from this investigation.
So, China helped fund the entire 4 year attempt to overthrow of the President of the United States of America ? I doubt they stopped in 2020 and I’ll bet they played and paid a bigger part in that abortion of an “election” we just lived through.
Bet they feel like they got a bargain, cheaper than war and they have the “Big Guy” in the White House and Zero’s muse waiting in the wings. I wonder what they have planned for Hunter next ‘cause I’m sure their not done with that boy yet.
Apparently Dr. J is having a medical procedure today & the “Big Guy” will be present. I wonder if they will undergo brain transplants?
Sundance top shelf work as usual.
Can you link some sources tying the Brookings institute to Chicoms please?
Regards,
Joe
Okay did some www search myself
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/disclosure-brookings-takes-millions-from-foreign-governments/
It’s the Brookings Institution, not Institute.
Lawfare is the Devil
But will anything be done about it. Two sets of rules.
See the stick? See the carrot on the end of the stick? Go get it.
What are you talking about? I thought Durham resigned in February. Doesn’t really matter anyway since Justice delayed is justice denied. All hope is lost. Kiss the Republic bye-bye. 🙁