CTH begins every review of John Durham news with the following disclaimer: If Special Counsel John Durham was going to reveal what is possible; how is Durham going to handle the reality that Robert Mueller’s and Andrew Weissmann’s entire existence was in place to hide it?
♦ The primary subsource for the Christopher Steele dossier was a guy named Igor Danchenko. According to several investigations of the dossier, Chris Steele attributes most of the information within the dossier to Danchenko. John Durham has just arrested Igor Danchenko [indictment pdf here]
The backstory is…. In essence, Chris Steele put a bunch of Danchenko 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 statements and used the dossier for two more FISA renewals in April and June 2017.
For a background on Igor Danchenko and his sketchy claims both to Chris Steele and to FBI investigators, review this prior video put together by John Spiropoulos prior to the information we discover today:
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Today, Igor Danchenko was indicted on five counts of lying to the FBI as an outcome of the special counsel investigation headed by John Durham. {New York Times}
However, it is important to note what Durham is doing here. Durham is charging Danchenko (working outside government) with lying to the FBI while simultaneously avoiding drawing attention to the FBI/DOJ officials (inside government) who knew Danchenko was lying and were willfully blind to the lying in order to continue attacking and investigating President Donald Trump.
So far, John Durham is willing to go after the co-conspirators outside government, but he is unwilling to target or call out the co-conspirators currently inside the U.S. government.
Igor Danchenko, a Russia analyst who worked with Christopher Steele, the author of a dossier of rumors and unproven assertions about Donald J. Trump, was taken into custody as part of the Durham investigation.
The indictment [pdf here] says that Igor Danchenko falsely told investigators that he received a phone call in July 2016 from Sergei Millian, an individual he believed to be a U.S. citizen and the president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce.
Danchenko previously said Millian provided him with information for the dossier, and the two later agreed to meet in person in New York. However, Millian has said that phone call with Danchenko never took place, there was no conversation or sharing of information and they never met. The indictment affirms what Millian has claimed from the outset.
Danchenko falsely accused Millian of giving him information for the dossier because Danchenko was making it all up. Instead the information was really coming from Charles Dolan Jr, a Democrat campaign official who the indictment calls “PR Executive-1” (h/t Aaron Mate).
Within the indictment, John Durham asserts that Danchenko and Dolan were working together to manufacture false information about Donald Trump in order to funnel it into the dossier through Christopher Steele. The FBI would then gain the fabricated dirt from Chris Steele for their Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
Charles Dolan (DNC campaign operative) later admitted to the FBI that the information he provided to Danchenko was bogus. However, Danchenko denied getting the information from Dolan, a lie that now becomes part of the indictment.
Technofog has a good review of the indictment – SEE HERE – which includes:
Overall, Danchenko faces five false statement charges:
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- Falsely denying he didn’t talk to the Democrat PR executive (Dolan) about the dossier allegations.
- Falsely stating he took a 2016 call from Russian Sergei Millian (whom he says alleged a Trump/Russia conspiracy).
- Falsely stating in another FBI interview that he took the 2016 call from Millian.
- Falsely stating he talked to Millian more than once over the phone.
- False in another FBI interview about his conversations with Millian.
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What a circus of insults.
And how the Kremlin must have enjoyed the circus. They managed to break the country without a shot fired. Igor will be lined up for Russias’s highest honor.
You’re hilarious!
hilarious….rusdsophobe…..sonia are you ukie…. .?????
sorry sonia it s not russia doing this it s the dems
In another 20 years when this finally wraps up and everybody is dead, perhaps a few folks will enjoy the irony that Obama, Holder, Brennan and Soros punked the Clintons, Trumps, Russians and DC. Better than watching a 3-way cat fight…
The entire Durham operation is an insult to the intelligence of American patriots. (notice I did not say “the American public”).
ditto
I do believe -Durham- will surprise many folks on this site…..and it is about the time…
“Citizens of Rome! Here is the Bread and Circuses we promised for your amusement! “
(And then, the Latin equivalent of “Nothing to see here…”)
the latin equivalent is nolo carpe diem lesko brandenixus.
Where is Asonius when you need him? ?
Nihil videre hic? Commodo dispergam!
I’m not a big fan of Jonathon Turley but he has written that Danchenko should/could be considered an “apex defendant” one who could easily flip as the highest target in the Durham investigation.
I would love to see Marc Elias in prison.
Perhaps some of those apex targets start throwing FBIDOJ turds under the bus to save their skins or for just good old fashioned revenge…
From your lips to God’s ear.
If Igor is a Russian spy, there is no way he would flip. He would take the cyanide capsule first. He also knows that his time behind bars will be short as the US will trade him for an American spy caught in Russia. He will return a hero. Spilling the beans will not garner him favor.
It may also be that Sussman and Igor refused to cooperate and that is why they are charged. Durham gave up on them, took his cooperation offer off the table, and gave them the slammer.
We’ll see.
2-3 Years is a long time for Durham to strategically prep a case only to see his 1st 2 indictees thumb their nose at him. I would think Durham would be smarter than that.
Besides, Igor is merely indicted for lying to the FBI, not what he told Steele. What he told Steele, in reality, is free speech BS gossip. It was the lying to the FBI when questioned that got him indicted. Igor should have just said: “sure I said it; it was just dirty campaign political BS. Not my problem that the FBI is SO incompetent they can’t distinguish between stupid campaign paid-for gossip and real intel.”
Igor isn’t the problem. Neither is Sussman. The FBI, CIA, DOJ, DOS are the problem. The Dossier should have just died when the campaign was over… but it was a contemptuous rogue politically weaponized FBI that turned campaign political dirt into an act of sedition against the sitting POTUS, Donald J. Trump. THAT is gravely serious and extremely dangerous. The FBI 7th Floor cannot be permitted to get away with literal sedition against the ELECTED govt and sitting President of the United States of America.
I don’t care about Hillary either. She engaged in Nixonesque dirty politics. She is not the problem. The Obama Administration really is the problem. What did President Obama know and when did he know it. MAYBE he was in the dark. Maybe he was lied to. I don’t know. Probably not but THIS, to me, is very serious… and cannot be swept under the rug as it certainly has been so far. If it is, then we most definitely live in a totalitarian police state.
“I would love to see Marc Elias in prison.”
I would love to see him in a gibbet but the US Constitution forbids “cruel and unusual punishment “.
he will take them all to gitmo…..
Lisa Page….she would hate prison. Would have to share a toothbrush….
And the clock tics on . . .
So long as the much vaunted rank and file are kept out of it.
Jack Posobiec ??
@JackPosobiec
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BREAKING:
@HumanEvents
is told Strobe Talbott lawyered up recently, as well as several members of the Clinton campaign such as Robby Mook and Jennifer Palmieri
Good
A pair of Podestas would be a nice draw.
Clinton full house beats it
Which leads me to use the catchy slogan of the plumbing company that services my septic tank:
” A Royal Flush always beats a Full House! “
Another commenter mentioned earlier that Dolan’s name and bio has now been removed from the website of the company he was working for as if he didn’t exist.
Great!
Wonder if that’s where Palmieri actually was the other day instead of “covid”? Seeing attorney??
Do you mean Jen Psaki, the WH Press Secretary?
You’re right. On ? meds and should have known better than comment when I can’t keep up today.?
Strobe talbott Stefan Halper and bill Clinton. Oxford at same time and scamming ever since.
Google the murky bs story of how talbott made his bones 50 years ago. I assume everything he, Halper and Clinton have touched since has been fraudulent.
That’s an interesting piece of information. “Birds of a feather….”
With the ouster of Cuomo in New York and now McAuliffe in VA it looks like the dem party is cutting the Clinton machine loose. Obama now controls that party. I’m not expecting Durham to go after the government or intel officials behind the coup but I believe hes been told the Clinton machine is now fair game. I think the fourth branch calculates little damage to itself with no accountability to the voter or either party. They likely believe a few political sacrifices of obsolete party machinery will keep the unwashed happy.
“[T]he Clinton machine is now fair game.”
Durham is a “cleaner” like Bondo Barr. His role is to solidify the Obama faction.
As much as it grieves me to argue this point, the iniquitous Clintons must be protected as witnesses for the purpose of destroying the Democrat’s Obama wing.
Meanwhile Clitonista Jake Sullivan, who was in the thick of it from the beginning is our current Director of National Intelligence! Talk about a confirmation failure by the Republicans.
What about Pajama Boy…… or his he more Obama than Hillary?
Terry McAuliffe‘s recent defeat has left the Clinton crime family exposed to multiple repercussions.
You see the knock-on effects taking place in “real time”.
If anyone gets more than a $100 fine, I’ll be impressed.
Exactly. They will also get to keep their jobs, probably get promotions, probably get help with their legal fees, and so on, never see a day of prison.
Meanwhile, honest hard working citizens are losing their jobs over an illegal mandate, and honest citizens are sitting in a prison for daring to walk into a public building in DC while supporting Pres. Trump, being treated horribly, being denied their Constitutional rights, being denied medical care, etc.
Yeah what’s that POS DoJ lawyer’s name who falsified an email in pursuit of a fraudulent FISA warrant, yet did no jail time and is now practicing law again?
Clinesmith.
One of the excuses for not sentencing him more harshly was that, gee, his wifey-poo was having a baby. Too bad they did not extend that courtesy in pressuring Gen. Flynn that his son, whose wife too was having a baby, could be indicted too.
This guy has patsy written all over him. He goes to jail – the fbi that knew about and used his lies will get promoted.
agreed
Or, they get a bigger fine, but a huge signing bonus for a book deal. There’s always the book deal.
As always thank you for the clarity Sundance R.D.
I was not aware that the female high up in the DOJ, Monaco (can not remember her first name) who was in the Obamination administration, was also with the Brookings Institute……just like Danchenko. Was it Christopher Steele who founded Brookings Institute? My, what a small incestuous world the Marxists live in.
The corrupt Marxist thugs in every agency that served Obamination and participated in the Coup against Pres. Trump will not be touched.
Lisa Monaco
Thank you!
andddddd Fiona Hill
the impeachment witness. to Vindman and ciameralla….
Yes. Forgot about her
they will be more than touch…..
weird how the real investigation into clinton and obama never happens.
you mean between the “senior Government official” – that the benghazi committee found had bo’s email on hillary server.
it be great if marc elias gets prosecuted too.
Sundance leaves out:
1. These were filed in EDVA! Not DC.
2. This now essentially proves that Mueller, McCabe, Strzok, etc knew it was all a sham.
3. Does this help explain why DOJ attorneys wiped 27 Federal phones? (Felonies?)
On No. 3, I assume you man Herr Weissmann. In that case those phones were filled with info of multiple instances of criminality.
Shouldn’t our NSA have all of that information?
So Durnham has caught a couple of minnows.
When is he going to catch the sharks?
Is he even trying?
No. the article said he is only willing to go after people that are from outside the U.S. He is unwilling to target the guilty liars that are currently in the U.S. administration. And..why is this the only picture you guys will show of him looking tough? It’s stupid, like it’s something Durham would have handpicked himself. He looks like a very ineffective weakling to me.
That’s Sundances take.
Recall 3, 4 years ago Sundance promised us “The Big Ugly”.
No because the sharks are his doj, fbi and his clinton/obama/deep state pals.
Durham has no intention of going after the fourth branch of government. The now politically obsolete clinton machine will be the sacrifice made to keep us “happy”.
Durham will totally ignore Mueller investigation, THATS how he “deals” with it,..by ignoring it.
“Just put it in the silo, cause its POLITICS, Jake,…its politics!”
The people who worked this for the FBI should be fired for gross incompetence if they’re going to give the plea of not guilty.
Clown show at the FBI. This corrupt agency should be blown up and destroyed.
Whoa Nellie Ohr needs to go to a glue factory.
The top officials of the FBI and DOJ knew in January 2017 that the Russian Collusion hoax was a complete lie yet two years later those same officials indicted, arrested, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced Roger Stone for a crime that never even happened! Now those same officials are claiming ignorance that they were fooled by the Russians? No, they wanted to be fooled and were deliberately ignorant!
betcha a chicken dinner Hilly came up with the totally warped peepee lie because, well, as often is the case with chronic liars, she’s into that.
She mostly likely came up with the code name for the operation “Crossfire Hurricane” because it sounded “macho” and wanted her male colleagues think she was “macho”. Think about it. It was her generation that first got enthralled by the Stones (Jumpin Jack Flash, 1969).
“Experience has shown that even under the best forms of government, those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” Thomas Jefferson.
I wondered why the lights were on so late at Brookings… I guess the shredder is working non-stop… Longtime Russian asset Strobe Talbot might finally be called to account…
Where is Cheryl Miller and Huma Abedink?
The DOJ is announcing that everyone involved in the Russian hoax coup, the 2 phony impeachments, the Southern District of NY investigations, Jan 6 insurrection ploy will be getting a $ 450k settlement because their intentions are noble. Justice in America today.
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I find it a bit odd that he is only being charged with 5 counts of lying to the liars at the FBI. That just seems like weak sauce for this investigation.
He won’t face any time in prison. It is more likely to have something to point to and say “see, we’ve done our job, nothing else to see, so move along now.”
I think the word “conspiracy” was used in the indictment.
I’m sure jug ears 0bowel,Swine Hilda and the rest of the
clowns are shaking in thier boots.
Just business as usual
“Durham is willing to go after the co-conspirators outside government, but he is unwilling to target or call out the co-conspirators currently inside the U.S. government.”
Which sounds like he’s charging Danchenko to keep him quiet. Certainly Wolfe and Clinesmith got sweetheart deals, not to roll over on the bigger fish, but to protect them.
Wolfe was charged by someone else.
Clinesmith cooperating?
They’re all DOJ.
Isn’t this the standard police procedure called the jailhouse informant? Search out the low-life who will tell you what you want to hear..
Likewise, the news media does this everyday; decide what story you want to report and find the dubious source who will provide it. The MSM definitely did not want to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story. They found a source with a tenuous link to the IC who speculated that the story could be, might be Russian disinformation. Presto! No coverage.
Hello Hilldawg. Hear the weathers hot in hell. ?
Popcorn?
Hilldawg wears a sweater in hell.
She wears that ugly afghan kaftan cloaky black sweater that she used in the hot May weather of Cambridge 2018 at Harvard Law School Commencement to hide her back brace stabilizing her L4 compression fracture after she slipped down those moist stone stairs in India month before. The funny part is the red embroidered dots on the front of the sweater are were her tits are. Eeeeeew
Hilldawg wears a Mao jacket in hell.
Not a chance. She could shoot someone on national TV and the fbi would “No reasonable prosecutor…”
Wrong….hilda will go..
Right. It looks to the incurious like accountability, but it’s just more coverup. We’ll just arrest the go-betweens so they take the fall for the main players (Clinton, the Obama administration, the FBI/DOJ, etc.)
Danchenko didn’t kill himself. JS
$43 million to investigate Trump-Russia, but somehow they missed this? That’s all you need to know about what a witch hunt the whole thing truly was.
Has a date been set yet for his funeral?
Yeah I’m sure the FBI knew he was lying and welcomed it. Only now they throw him under the bus to save their own asses.
Correction, thought fbi would protect him. They knew he was lying.
FBI knew in 2016, other FBI agents knew in Jan 2017
https://4thamendmentrestored.com/who-ran-the-doj-really%3F
Correction. Knows FSB will protect him. Look for spy trade soon.
Another process crime.
How does one get to the “big guys” without going after the little guys first?
It never ceases to amaze me how they go after the “low hangin fruit” and want us to think they achieved something.
Can Durham be indicted if it can be proved he’s bent by protecting DOJ/FBI officials who participated in the spying?
In theory yes. It would some form of obstruction of justice.
In truth, a zealous prosecutor with a love of country would charge hundreds,perhaps thousands, of people connected to the last 5 years of Spygate with obstruction plus other stuff.
Never happen.
How about a special counsel to look into the special counsel who was supposed to look into the special counsel.
Sadly, it looks as though the FBI is either completely crooked and corrupt or conclusively clueless and incompetent…
So basically it’s just a standard FBI/DOJ/Intel Agency sting against their greatest enemy– an American citizen.
We’re very accustomed to this stuff now. I have no hope for Durham. I don’t count on any institutions to save us.
At the very least I hope Durham’s hoax investigation will be revealed for what it is. Very very soon a vast majority of Americans will have been red-pilled and we’ll have no need for saving by any institution. It will be the institutions that will be screaming to be saved.
Statute of Limitations?
Statute of Lamentations. We are looking for indictments of Comey, McCabe, Strozk, Page, Baker, Clapper, Brennan, Lynch, Haspel, Biden, Kerry, Hillary, and Obama.
With that said, now you see why the crime is such a problem. This is really our top level of government that conspired against our country and should be hanged for it.
“With that said, now you see why the crime is such a problem. This is really our top level of government that conspired against our country and should be hanged for it.”
This used to be a shocking notion to me. Now it’s absolutely nothing. The emotional content is gone and I’d just like to see them locked up and move on as if they never existed.
Maybe the country is getting closer to the time when we can hear some truths.
The MSM has been highlighting the fact that Mueller was a senile shell of a man of late, no?
That was according to America`s greatest political dissembler, Schiff, in his new book. It was duly reported by his enabling media. Is that their get-out-of-jail-free card for this? Is this how they pretend they didn’t find all this corruption?
Seems really transparent that our untrustworthy newshounds in the press took that nugget alone to focus on.
There should be 10+ counts against the FBI for believing the lies they wanted to hear!
To be fair I think most of us are guilty of that.
And the best goes on… or is it the drip?
just remember sports fans you are nothing more than a condom to the dems , after your usefullness is over, it s off you go into the gutter
Perhaps this is Julian Assange 2.0, with Durham throwing a bag over Danchenko.
Obama purges the Clintons while he continues to transform America. . . .
Guaranteed the Clintons have plenty on Zero.
Mutual Assured Destruction.
Now THAT would be fun to watch, collateral damage notwithstanding.
I think you’re onto something there!
When notMadame notPresident Hillary Clinton goes to jail, I will be satisfied that we’re on the right track of true Justice in this country.
Seems to me Durham is telling anyone willing to listen that the foundational info for the entire 2 year witch hunt including endless sub committee investigations, multiple fake and false “news” hit pieces, a $26 million dollar Special counsel tribunal, was (as we all already know) garbage.
How does he now not indict this up the ladder?
Perhaps by being shut down?
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So none of the 40 fbi agents investigating Russian collusion thought to check Millians phone records? Really?
Crap with an agency like this running the show a person could blow up people at the Boston marathon on live tv. Oh wait….
“Tsarvaev”/ “Tsarneav”….what’s the difference? It’s only a flight manifest from Dagestan….
Igor Danchenko?
Sounds like a villain out of an old James Bond movie.
“I don’t expect you to talk, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.”
That German actor had his lines dubbed and was featured previously in the The Longest Day as the German cook on horseback making his daily rounds to the beach bunkers at Omaha with all his pots and pans clanging. Connery was in that also landing on Sword Beach.
I thought that was the guy who played Sgt. Shultz
Looks like some run of the mill thug that Bond easily defeats before meeting the super agent that can only be defeated by ingenuity. But he could easily play a villain in a Borne flick.
I would just like to say in advance, Dachenko and Dolan did not kill themselves.
They totally should be more afraid of the Clintons and the intel agencies than they are of Durham and “the law.”
It’s like expecting the police to protect a juror on a mob trial.
excuse me….I forgot….what are we looking for?
So Danchenko was setting up Sergei Millian to take the fall. I assume Dolan will be next.
Comey McCabe and Strzok were trying to set up SM.
Just a single snapshot in the bigger mosaic of the DoJ/FBI trying to set up Nominee and then President Trump.
Durham moves so slow he only has a bowel movement once a month. Durham will shut down his investigation 3 hours before President Trump is inaugurated.
Tick-tock!
I bet Hannity has his wife dress up as an FBI agent each night…..role playing, ya know..