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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Lying to Congress? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Doesn’t everyone?
Well, is there a crime for Congress lying to the people? That happens everyday.
Butt they don’t give a schiff!
And Congress itself lies! I know! Hilarious!
I though this was for lying to the FBI. Like what General Flynn was prosecuted for.
“John Durham is willing to go after the co-conspirators outside government,..”
Tomorrow, the “outside” conspirators will realize their vulnerability and ask themselves if it is necessary and proper to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of rogue FBI agents.
This is a “goodness thing”. ?
Hope so.
They may have been paid enough to fall on their sword for their Comrades
But there is always one that isn’t willing to accept the consequences and sell everyone out to save themselves…this is just human nature.
Who do they tell that will do anything about it??
These are loose ends being tied in a bow. You pulled the right part of SD’s article, which emphasizes “outside the government”.
Note that candidate Hillary and her Podesta buddies were outside the government at this time. Who, in DoJ, is going to listen to their tale that is willing to act??
As long as AG Garland stays under control while Shanghai Mitch and his dummy friend in the House “Charlie” MacCarthy keep the focus on the OSHA Mandate and Spending Bills…the outsiders are going down as the patsies.
It is wonderful the Clintons and their friends are on the chopping block but even Lenin and Stalin eliminated their political rivals..just as the Obama wing of the Uni-Party is doing today.
Who is going to act on any dots connected to inside the 2015-17 Executive Offices of the US Government?? By the way, Durham (and his twin Huber) are dots on the trail via their obvious slow roll and ignoring of evidence.
Treavor: I believe the quote attributed to Donna Brazile was that “if that bastard wins we’ll all be hanged.” I do see some Politifact post claiming that this is untrue, that Clinton did not “e-mail” this message to Brazile. I’m betting it was was said, though.
Clinton said it after a journalist went off script and asked her an actual tough question she wasn’t given in advance. Matt Lauer. Interesting how his skeletons came out of the closet not two years later.
“You’d better fix this sh*t. Cause if this basted gets elected we’re all going to hang from nooses” is how I remember it being quoted. Screaming it at Brazile in public right after the interview.
Actually, it was just a year later. According to the Wiki page (the chronology is useful) Matt Lauer held two separate interviews with HRC and DJT September 8, 2016. On November 29 2017 NBC terminated Lauer’s contract due to reports by an unidentified NBC employee that she had been sexually harassed by Lauer. It appears that NYT and Variety had been conducting investigations regarding his behaviour, probably ever since he dared step outside the plantation and actually ask HRC hard-hitting questions about her server.
she has an ace in the hole. bill. if they get to close to her she will bust open the freezer and thaw him out for a state funeral show that will overwhelm the media and well, we have seen this before.
Good one
Then Obama crew has decided to sacrifice Hillary
This is all now the Clinton dossier now
Let all the chips fall here
Guess O doesn’t want her for Cameltoe’s VP.
I lie, I cackle, I wear pant suits, I have Kankle’s, I dance with Harvey Weinstein, I disarmed the Benghazi security detail, I trade fur with a Muslim named Huma, her husband is a convicted pedophile & my husband is a serial sexual predator was never a winning platform.
Sundance – “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.”
Durham – “Roll-over Igor. Good Boy”
Call in tips to CNN reporters that the FBI is going to arrest the Lords of the 7th Floor at 5 AM at their homes and then film them setting up cameras…just to prank them as it would suck to get up that early in the dark and by the time they get back to their offices they would not be able to get 1-2 hours of sleep before their workday started. Ha ha.
CNN would not show up. They are on the same team. They cover up FBI rank dishonesty and incompetence, and would pretend it was not there if someone led them to an oasis in the middle of the dessert with the proof.
Ha! Someone should put a CNN sign on their van and park outside these peoples homes.
CNN is “inside the government”. There was a long ago discarded story that the FBI was actually using an old discarded and archived CNN draft which looked allot like the Russia-Russia story.
Low level individuals at CNN may be sacrificed by CNN, via being fired but CNN is safe and off limits.
CNN is a alphabet agency creation. They realized that controlling a 24 hr. news machine with contracts for most public spaces was priceless.
One white girly-man from the 7th getting to experience the dating rituals in federal prison would be more better than nothing.
Will he get a comp package comparable to that of McCabe?
I remember reading something about a Crowdstrike contractor who had access to the NSA database looking up Michael Cohen and found the phone evidence in Prague, except they looked up the wrong Michael Cohen. This info was obviously passed into the dossier. Can anyone find a source for this? Is it related to the incident where Admiral Rogers shut down the NSA db access to outside contractors? And now today I read the claim is this new lady who is Danchenko’s school friend was the one who passed that info, despite the fact that she denies ever talking to him about it? If it is true that a contractor accessed the terrorism database to create the dossier, then everyone who said building the database was bad because it would be abused will turn out to be absolutely correct in their suspicions. Cameras can’t record the public when they are bodily ripped from their wires, maybe it’s time to clean up this immoral surveillance network.
Billy Bob, my precious Billy Bob, wherefore art thou? The answer is NO!
Look, this is just an Obama Mafia take down of the Clinton Mafia utilizing a targeted application of our laws. Only this time they didn’t need to fabricate ‘evidence’ like the did against anyone remotely supporting MAGA or PDJT.
If you wondered what life is like under a system not based upon the rule of law, but the rules of Men, you have arrived.
My concern is what will happen to We the People after the Obama Mafia wins?
When Hitler took power he eliminated all those that had helped him along the way. Only his supporters were smart and devious enough to replace him; you must use Satan logic.
Such is the history throughout all time of all those that support Tyrants; those who help bring forth Tyrants are always first into the grave.
For example, Tyrants need resources and control over major industries to continue, as everything they do destroys real productivity; I’m looking right now at all you 0.001% supporting Obama’s 3rd Term; do you seriously think you will survive?
No, all you will have, as you stand before Satan is your eternal shame, not only of God but of all Mankind.
Bingo. The clinton machine is now obsolete and the Obama machine runs the dems. The fourth branch has no loyalty to either party but philosophically leans towards the dems so in order to remain operating without accountability the obsolete Clinton machine is being allowed to be targeted. This is meant to keep us the great unwashed pleased while settling things down and prying eyes off the fourth branch. What they’re not expecting is a return of Trump with Flymn in tow. THEN you’ll see some actual accountability.
Yes, but even those in the fourth branch can’t trust anyone around them.
Afterall, their is no honor among thieves.
Seriously, can anyone imagine living our life in such a Hell on Earth? Only to be delivered to Hell itself?
I’m caught between pity and hate.
And yet I still wish every soul upon this Earth may yet enter Heaven.
Good points. That’s what I expect to happen
This is more like Stalin….
Removing Russian Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in August 1940 with an ice axe. Trotsky was supposed to be Lenin’s successor and also headed the secret police.
Conducted the 1936 Purge of the Russian Military and Intelligentsia, that decapitated all potential rival movements within the part.
Peace is that brief, glorious moment when people are standing around, and the smart ones are reloading.
And Russian, Australian, Italian, and British spies
If lying to Congress ended in government officials being charged, Fauci would get the death penalty.
Danchenko was just released on $100,000 bond with no monitoring device but he pinky swore he wouldn’t skip town.
Did he promise not to commit suicide?
Before you know it he’ll fall from a building in Moscow.
Why didn’t mueller indict the guy for lying to the FIB?
Because they needed him to lie for the FBI.
They were not looking to exonerate President Trump, they were looking to frame him.
What are the odds he is Epsteined?
So….when will the FBI arrest the FBI?
Ultimately, this (Durham) will just be the Obama gang eliminating the Hillary gang. If you think of politics in terms of gangs, everything makes more sense. Why would Democrats go after Democrats? Easy, to consolidate power. Just like the Trump gang is battling the Mitch (McConnell) gang…Republican vs Republican.
And the Turtle is backed by the Chinamen.
So that’s why today, John Dean was on MSNBC claiming that a Trump computer connection to the Russians/Alfa Bank was a proven fact.
A fact Special Counsel Mueller said was false.
Yes.
the play is for Steeele to double down as he was legit, and the source they handed the Nellie Ohr Dossier to is being framed now – Igor.
Nellie – Beautiful Nellie and her dossier, begging Steele and Igor to Launder it.
Where is that laundering graphic CTH always has?
I’ll take Durham seriously when he goes after the lying, cheating FBI.
Bull Durham needs to arrest at least one agent from the Federal Bureau of Matter and I will start to believe in him.
Will this happen?
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.
Would it be wildly optimistic to assume that Durham is slowly and methodically constructing a powerful case before announcing indictments of criminal masterminds like McCabe and Strzok? Yea, probably.
Yes. It would be wildly optimistic.
The Danchenko Indictment confirms that he worked at the Brookings Institute. Item A16 indicates that in Think Tank Employee-1 introduced Danchenko to UK Person-1 who is Christopher Steele. Is Think Tank Employee-1 none other than Dr Fiona Hill who was a key Democrat witness during the Impeachment? What is with this ever growing connection to Brookings?
fiona? igor? and?
Right, pin it on the Russian living in Washington, DC who just happened to be the source for Steele, the Clinton Campaign and the FBI.
The FBI that knew in 2017 that the dossier was completely uncorroborated but didn’t release that information until 2019.
Can we all say fall guy in unison?
Arkancide is a real thing and Danchenko’s clock is ticking.
I wish to heck we could sue every single Mueller team member for the money they spent and TOOK to perpetrate this fraud.
Then we could go after Comey, McCabe, Strzok and Page for starters. Any Clinton people should be added.
So angry I could spit.
And Andrew Weissman. Don’t forget him. If there were any justice on this planet, Weissman would spend the rest of his life in the dank basement of a federal prison in North Dakota.
This x10000
Absolutely, and well caught. Mueller was simply the figurehead, much as Biden is for the administration.
It was Weissman pulling the strings.
Or booking a hunting trip with me.
Fiona Hill of Brookings was the one who recommended Danchenko to Steele. Smells like Fiona knew what was being engineered, and was asked to provide a biddable Russkii they could use as a laundry for Dolan’s PR products, letting Steele claim to have a Russian source (possibly Steele didn’t even know he was being used, but I doubt it). Durham needs to grill Fiona Hill on who got her involved. Strobe Talbott?
All disbarred and prosecuted for Prosecutorial misconduct
And treason
How about the tall girly-man and his Stroke me henchman getting advice on the dating rituals in federal prison?
And we all know the DOJ and FBI was aware of this source being garbage – according to all the reporting by CTH over the years.
They were complicit.
(look at it from a bird’s eye view)
Besides being aimed at removing the Clintons and their faction, the dots will connect to some key Republicans that will be connected just in time for 2022, who had roles in the Impeachments, never Trump, Gang of 8, making deals for 2020, et al….who’s seats are part of 2022.
Note: Rand Paul, Tim Scott and Marco Rubio would also be key 2024 scalps as well.
Sorry, but your post makes no sense.
For what it’s worth I am beginning to see the distancing from mueller.
Adam shitf is publicly stating that Mueller was in cognitive decline, And it was painful to watch his testimony
FBI can lie to anyone.
No one can lie to the FBI.
That rhymes with Pyranee
And the vaccine is the 2nd A.
Most of the reports on the Durham events of today have focused on the dossier. This is as it should be, and was Durham’s charge. That is, what exactly originated the FBI’s investigation into Russia/Trump campaign collusion? Further Obama commissioned Clapper, Brennan, Comey and Admiral Rogers to also investigate and create the Investment Community Assessment -ICA. The ICA was the document the Intelligence Community created (4 of the 16 agencies) by Obama’s request and the annex was basically a 2 page summary of the dossier.
James Comey presented this annex to President Elect Trump as a Presidential Briefing. It was discussed by Obama, Biden, Sally Yates, and James comey in the Oval Office January 5, 2017 then presented privately to President Elect Trump, I think 3 days later. For all the world it appears that James Comey knowingly presented false information to PDJT.
Isnt this treason?
yes
https://4thamendmentrestored.com/framed-for-treason%3F
Comey and McCabe wanted to include the dossier in the body of the ICA and John Brennan said no way. I think Brennan knew this would be treason.
Brennen and Harry Reid – not even a scratch on them.
those 2 conspired clearly.
Uranium One had Nevada Roots.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1009c/report.pdf
Yup.
As PJT said many times in relation to tbjs
Durham ‘pretending’ to bring forth justice.
FJD
Danchenko is at worst a patsy in this whole situation, and his arrest feels less like progress and more like a diversion from the real problem.
If played properly he could be a link to those who put him up to it. Fiona Hill, who Danchenko had worked for at Brookings, recommended him to Steele, as a dandy ‘researcher”. She needs to be under the hot lights until she talks.
They have to roll the conspiracy from the bottom up
It’s not that hard to understand
Are charges of “lying to the FBI” really how to flip a conspiracy like this?
I don’t buy it.
Durham is corrupt.
The purpose of arresting Danchenko is so they can kill him in prison, preventing him from implicating the higher-ups.
This is just an extension of the Mueller Report scam. The purpose of the Mueller Commission was to “ACT” like an outside investigator, and GATHER ALL INFORMATION ON “WHO KNOWS WHAT” about corrupt swamp creatures, AND THEN “GIVE BLANKET IMMUNITY AGREEMENTS” TO ALL OF THOSE SWAMP CREATURES, SO THEY CANNOT BE PROSECUTED.
Appears the “HIGHER UPS” do not trust Danchenko, and are arranging to have him killed.
The Assange Treatment
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2020/12/22/a-reason-to-pardon-julian-assange/
Danchenko is a Russian spy. He will be traded for a captured American spy and return to Russia as a hero. He is probbaly only indicted because he knows this and therefore refused to cooperate. Sussman probably thought he had high powered lawyer friends and the Clintons who would get him off the hook so he refused also and therefore he got indicted.
Remember Susan McDougal and Whitewater? Billy Clinton gave her a pardon for keeping her trap shut and doing the time.
If they wanted him dead he’d be dead. Ask Seth Rich. Or Phil Haney. Or Nathan Deal. Or Michael Hastings. Or Chris Sign.
If he’s not dead he either has FSB protection, witness protection program protection, or a kill switch with key information. Or he’s been left out there to hang as bait.
These people have already flipped on the higher ups
I can picture this as one, upper right hand corner, of the many arrows in Sundance;s circle of conspiracy.
Seems like years ago. We need to get to Nellie and the other Orr.
I believe ShipwreckedCrew is working on a piece for Substack (article).
Two major tracks going now – Alfa Bank & Brookings / FBI / Steele?
in regards to Brookings, I just learned that Strobe Talbot is also a Brookings alumni and has been associated with Clintonistas Shearer and Blumenthal.
Tonight Fox has discussed this indictment and showed a picture of Dolan with Joe Biden. So, this is getting very close to the top levels of the Democrat Party.
This tweet from Jack Posobiec was sent around impeachment time, and was retweeted today.
Trump work was infiltrated from the beginning.
Whoops- Trump world.
dolan and biden (looks like not long ago)
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whoopsie daisy! looks like his employer doesn’t like publicity… probably should have used a rat instead of a squirrel.
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Charles Dolan Jr. Senior Strategist. [email protected]. About Charles. Chuck Dolan brings many years of Washington experience to kglobal clients. A former State …
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Even a blind squirrel like Durham finds a nut every now and then.
He looks like The Penguin. Schumer is jealous.
This is all well and good and lots of Americans have known this was false since well before the IG was brought on…But half the country (the Democratic half) believe this lie….I hope Durham is starting with Danchenko and working his way up to the FBI agents who were first misled by Danshenko and then were so hungry for the story to fit their twisted scenario that they ignored the hard evidence that it was all lies.Ultimately to McCabe and Comey, who all KNEW this was garbage but went on CNN and MSNBC weekly to spread the lies with a straight face. If there is any justice HIllary will be indicted, as she financed this and, of course, knew what was being done on her behalf…… The corruption is astounding. Think about what more (besides energy independence, no wars, high wages, Middle Eastern peace and the vaccine) Trump might have done in his four years if he wasn’t distracted by this garbage!
Yes. This is how I see it
Go watch American gangster. Good depiction of how it’s done
I shocked at how much President Trump accomplished with the forces pushing back on him.
I don’t know of one other person that wouldn’t have wilted under them.
I will be forever grateful to him for his efforts.
It still does not negate the gravity of the situation we find ourselves in as a nation. The IC basically tried to kneecap and remove a duly elected president. What country and stand for long with that kind of BS going on?
(the “democratic” half) (the “democrat” half…nothing democratic about them.
Pray for Durham…
that he knows he has to live with himself….and just does the right thing.
This talk was given at Yale Law School on November 13th, 2018 by the Honorable John Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.
Very interesting, thank you.
I pray that veritas is his goal, that he sees it as a higher calling than to the government.
Kash Patel, Devin Nunes and I think, John Ratcliffe have expressed optimism about Durham and his potential findings and prosecutions. That is a crew that should have first hand knowledge of how unlikely it is but they still said it and recently.
I hope they are right.
Appreciate the continued coverage. I realize this is only on the visceral level but nothing will really be worthwhile until some of this viper’s nest is fed, feet first, into the big Morbark®. And in the interest of transparency, pour encourager les autres, it should archived on C-SPAN.
Undercover Huber’s thread on twitter about this.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1456396520719323142.html
Nice summary.
Glad UH is writing again.
After reading through Huber’s work: one thought comes to mind.
Sergei ought to wait until the evidence starts pointing to the MSM being
aware, then sue the bejesus out of them. He’s a potential Nick Sandman
in the making.
We can be sure that Charles Dolan, Jr. didn’t spontaneously think, gee I’d better call old Igor Danchenko and relate this important news”. I’d be curious to know: Who gave this assignment to Charles Dolan, Jr? WHEN does his involvement begin? How did he come to be in contact with Danchenko? How did they communicate? Who else in the roster of dirty tricksters does he know and interact with? Which members of the Clinton circle were part of the plot? What are Dolan’s CIA/FBI connections?
What are Dolan’s Perkins Coie connections.
He’s rolling it all up from its origins. I expect he will get all the bad 4th branch folks
He must be
Close to done because everything that happened upstream has been written in stone by everyone Here. Books etc.
This is all the set up to find more on Trump if he runs in 2024 election. Anyone that Durham arrests will get the privilege treatment, but low and behold…………………………More on Trump.
There’s “Lying” for MAGA supporters
Then there is ” lack of candor where the DOJ declines to prosectute” for Swampers and their friends
There are many examples of “lack of candor” worse than this that went to the “decline” phase: hillary, Wolfe, McCabe …
Igor, not to be confused with Egor…
SD is the master of this matter, along with TechnoFog and a small handful of others. SD’s instincts are spot on regarding likely-hood this goes where it should.
I’m frankly quite surprised it’s gone anywhere beyond the circular file. It’ll probably amount to nothing, but maybe there’s a percent chance something has shifted(?)
Seems like the small fish are being rolled, and will hopefully sing. Pray for Fed/DC corruption to be exposed – beyond even this matter.
The DOJ and FBI allowed themselves to become the exclusive enforcement arms of the Clinton campaign. The Independent Counsel aligned and covered up, too. Most people thought that the Clinton candidacy was a sure bet, and they were looking for Administration jobs and contracts. That is how the Democrats and bureaucrats play the game, but in the case of Trump, two things happened.
First, Clinton’s henchmen went way too far in their dirty tricks that ultimately polarized the nation with their lies and accusations.
Second. once Trump won, they had to keep up the facade; otherwise, they become exposed. Remember HRC’s famously saying they were all going to go down?
Expanding the fake collusion into an SPO investigation was close to treason against a duly elected POTUS. Media and Democrats cared nothing for the truth, each for their own reasons. They sowed chaos and crippled our gov’t during the four years of investigations and false impeachments.
There should be a political price and criminal consequences paid by all the higher-ups in the DNC, Hillary’s Campaign, Comey, McCabe, Adam Schiff for such reckless actions regardless of anyone’s motives or their personal hatred of President Donald Trump.
Igor Danchenko didn’t kill himself.
About the creeps hiding in the 4th branch
Chump change. They would just write the check out of the Clinton ‘Foundation’ account.
Am I too late to trademark, ‘Danchenko didn’t kill himself,’ for the t-shirts?
Fiona Hill in Roger Stone’s eyes 2019
Fiona Hill with Putin- Soschi 2010