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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This seems like Team Obama throwing Team Clinton under the Prison Short Bus.
Pretty amazing that Hillary colluded with Russians to frame Trump for colluding with Russians. Who knew?
“Democrat” operative, not democratic…nothing democratic about them.
Strobe Talbott pushing the Brpokings Institute!
On now:
“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. ”
So sickening to our America. The elite evil-doers are above reproach.
“So far…”
Established guilt on the outsiders part may be used as facts to prove the insiders part.
He’s building.
My thoughts exactly. Durham is slowly, methodically and (hopefully) bullet-proof-odically, working his way to the center of the corruption within the govt.
Bingo
Now 2 indictments that track back directly to a Hillary Clinton “dirty trick”.
Which lead to the obvious (purely rhetorical) questions……
Why didn’t the fbi figure this out?
Why didn’t Mueller figure this out?
Especially since Brennan briefed O in summer 2016 of Russian intel chatter about a Hillary Clinton “dirty trick” and notified Comey about it.
I am troubled by the fact that 4 of the 5 lying counts involve Millian, who seems to be a bystander.
There’s only one person responsible for this whole scandal: Hillary Clinton. By the way, she too is currently outside the US government. Everyone else was a pawn used by Hillary to her wicked ends!
The weren’t really pawns. They were willing co-conspirators.
Legally they may have been co-conspirators. But to Hillary, they were just pawns: a person or an entity used to further the purposes of another.
Sundance said: “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.”
I would add, none of the crooks are acting like they are worried. Stele just did an interview a few weeks ago and he was adored by the swamp.
He is not acting worried at all.
Says who?
Others say they’re all layering up; Jack Posobiec says deals are being cut.
SD is correct though…
Blame is shaping up to all being laid at the feet of the now irrelevant useless old hag.
BTW: Gone are the days of Jesse James when the crooks hid in caves to avoid capture.
Instead they give interviews to the msm or testify under oath in impeachment trials.
Does anyone really think they will be convicted by a DC jury or given a tough sentence by a DC judge!
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Peter Strzok on Rachel Maddow tonight, 7 minutes.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/strzok-calls-out-durham-s-russia-scandal-investigation-for-pushing-pro-trump-narrative-125440581565
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“Danchenko was in & out of the USAID-Moscow orbit when I was driving late-90s Russian elections. He was a grifter then, stayed a grifter & he’s a grifter now. Only a fool would bring him into a project.
“FBI & Steele knew this but wanted Trump. They will lie & pretend otherwise.”
Now that it doesn’t make any f***ing difference.
I remain in the hopeful camp that Durham will keep going until the conspiracy is rooted out. Sussman and Igor need plea deals. They’ll talk. The fun game to play now is “who’s next,” probably another outsider in SD’s scenario. The folks on that list know who they are. They’ll talk too. Then you approach the small fish in FBI, DOJ. Participants who gained little by participating, but have much to lose. Slow circling of the prey, starting far from the center, whose escape options will be dwindling. Life ruined or talk -which would you choose.
Early talkers get the sweets and late talkers get jail.
This brings back memories of Mueller’s investigation of Russian collusion and his bringing charges against 13 Russian citizens.
Nothing significant ever came of that either.
When Hillary starts throwing shoes then I’ll believe but there’s not much chance of that happening.
Can that old nag still kick hard enough to throw a shoe?