This is sickening to read, and perhaps even more sickening to accept. CTH has long outlined the belief that Bill Barr was the Bondo application to cover the DOJ and FBI institutional rot, and John Durham was the ongoing spray paint application.
The bottom line is an ongoing DC operation to preserve the institutional credibility of the justice system. A credibility, which is – at this point, entirely destroyed – yet the effort continues.
In a court motion today [pdf HERE], special prosecutor John Durham outlines the case against Christopher Steele’s primary source, Igor Danchenko. For more granular information about the filing itself, visit Techno Fog [review article HERE].
The basic legal case brought by Durham is predicated on the notion that Christopher Steele’s source for his dossier, Igor Danchenko, willfully and intentionally lied to the FBI, and therefore Danchenko is guilty of purposefully misleading FBI investigators assigned to the Trump-Russia/”crossfire hurricane” investigation.
This is where we must stop pretending. The Durham premise of a “duped FBI” is laughable on its face. No one in the FBI or DOJ-NSD was “duped” by false information from Igor Danchenko.
The lies, as they were with Clinton lawyer Michael Sussman, were well known to be false, yet materially beneficial to the unspoken intention of the DOJ/FBI, which was to target Donald Trump. The corrupt intent of the DOJ and FBI is the basic rot John Durham was appointed to cover over.
John Durham is running a Deep State cover operation to protect the institutions of the DOJ and FBI from evidence of their prior activity. The bulls**t of pretending this is not his motive is, well, quite simply nonsense and needs to stop. Look at today’s filing itself, overlay the timeline and you can see the corrupt intention of the FBI and John Durham’s clear objective is to cover for them.
The big picture takeaway is right there on the second page. Pay attention to the dates.
CONTEXT – From January 2017 through October 2020 the FBI was using Danchenko as part of its investigation. This includes the entire timeline of the Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann special counsel operation which took place from May 2017 to April 2019.
Danchenko was Christopher Steele’s primary source for information he put into his “dossier”. The DOJ-NSD and FBI used the Steele Dossier in lieu of a valid ‘wood’s file’ to support the FISA surveillance and search warrant application against Carter Page. The title-1 warrant gave the DOJ-NSD and FBI the ability to conduct surveillance over Donald Trump as a candidate and as a President. The warrant was issued in October 2016 and renewed thrice in 2017 (Jan, April, June).
The warrant was used to conduct electronic surveillance of President Trump during the time he was in office. Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann renewed the warrant to support their targeting of Trump and officials in his orbit. Most of the evidence gathered by Weissmann/Mueller was captured using surveillance legally authorized by the FISA warrant.
Without the Steele Dossier, there wouldn’t be evidence to support the FISA application. Without the FISA warrant there wouldn’t be legal surveillance of Trump. This is the importance of the Steele Dossier and as a consequence the importance of Igor Danchenko who provided the fabricated material within the dossier.
♦ We already knew from the Inspector General report on the Carter Page FISA application, the FBI had interviewed Danchenko in January of 2017, within days of filing for the first renewal of the Carter Page Title-1 surveillance warrant. However, we learn today -for the first time- the FBI hired Danchenko as a “paid confidential human source” following that interview.
According to Durham, Danchenko remained a paid informant of the FBI all the way to October 2020. Not coincidentally the same time when John Durham was officially appointed by Bill Barr.
So, let’s just stand back and look at this bulls**t scheme for what it is….
The FBI interviews and questions Igor Danchenko in January 2017 about the information in the Steele Dossier. Danchenko tells them the material he provided to Chris Steele was all hearsay, word-of-mouth, said in jest, bar talk. Essentially, nonsense [OIG report on those encounters]
Danchenko tells the FBI the material in the dossier was crap. Therefore, the underlying information that supported the FISA application was crap.
The FBI knows the information is crap, yet the FBI still used the dossier to get the first renewal of the FISA warrant (January 2017). The original application (Oct. ’16) and the first renewal (Jan. ’17) are word-for-word and page-for-page identical. The FBI and DOJ added nothing; they simply re-filed the exact same documents for the warrant renewal.
AFTER the January 2017 interview, the FBI hires Igor Danchenko as a paid confidential human source. This move can only be seen for what it was, the DOJ/FBI needed to mitigate the damage Danchenko could bring to their surveillance warrant authority, so the FBI hired him.
AFTER hiring Danchenko the DOJ/FBI then reinterviewed him before refiling the second renewal in April. With Danchenko on their payroll they don’t need to worry about him undermining the narrative or speaking the truth about the dossier. This approach protects their warrant. The surveillance warrant is renewed.
AFTER Robert Mueller is appointed special counsel in May 2017, with Danchenko still on the FBI payroll and under control… Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann now submit the FISA application for another renewal on June 29, 2017.
The reason to keep Danchenko on the FBI payroll is to mitigate any risk he might present if he were to speak.
As you can see from the Durham filing, Danchenko was kept on the FBI payroll throughout the Robert Mueller investigation and the special counsel also interviewed him several times. When Danchenko is interviewed on June 15, 2017, he is being interviewed as part of the Mueller operation. That interview was before Mueller renewed the FISA application on June 29th.
Igor Danchenko was kept on the FBI payroll from March 2017 through October 2020.
So, what happened in October 2020?
John Durham was officially appointed as Special Counsel by Bill Barr.
Follow the timeline:
Danchenko interviewed by FBI in January 2017. Tells FBI dossier is junk.
FBI hires Danchenko in March 2017 just before renewing the FISA they now know is based on junk.
May 2017 Robert Mueller appointed to cover up all of the DOJ/FBI corruption that existed in the Trump targeting.
June 2017 Mueller interviews Danchenko, then renews the FISA.
February 2019, Bill Barr enters as Attorney General.
April 2019 Robert Mueller completes investigation.
May 2019, Bill Barr appoints Durham just to look into things. Immediately then begs Trump not to declassify any documents. Trump writes executive order giving Bill Barr ability to review and declassify documents.
October 2020, Bill Barr officially (and quietly), makes John Durham a special counsel. We don’t find out until December (after the Nov election).
October 2020, FBI drops Igor Danchenko as paid informant.
Put it all together and you see the continuum.
(1) Donald Trump was being targeted by a corrupt DOJ and FBI. (2) Robert Mueller was installed in May 2017 to cover up the targeting. (3) When Mueller is nearing his completion, Bill Barr steps in to mitigate institutional damage from 1 and 2. (4) Barr maintains damage control and installs Durham. (5) Durham takes over the coverup operation from October 2020 (Danchenko safe to exit) through today.
Main Justice kept a bag over Danchenko until they needed a scapegoat, created by Durham, to sell a narrative that Main Justice was duped. John Durham is charging Danchenko (working outside govt) with lying to the FBI while simultaneously avoiding drawing attention to the FBI/DOJ officials (inside govt) who knew Danchenko was lying and were willfully blind to it in order to continue attacking and investigating President Donald Trump.
James Comey, Robert Mueller, Bill Barr, John Durham, the Mar-a-Lago raid… it’s all one long continuum of the same targeting and coverup operation.
Bill Barr was the Bondo application and John Durham is the spray paint.
The entire system is corrupt.
CTH: I’m as cynical as any true MAGA must be, but I’m not catching what you are pitching. Durham unveils that Danschenko was a paid FBI informant … with the sole purpose of screwing-over Trump. While being interrogated by the same FBI, the informant lies. So – how, exactly – does this make the FBI appear non-complicit? It makes them appear incompetent …
YUP
You have been saying this and independent of you I have believed this is exactly what was gong on.
They needed to control Danchenko and what better way to control him than to control his imprisonment. They are doing the same thing to Assange as Senator Warner texted years ago. Wolfe was in the same boat but he treatened to expose Warner’s ordering Wolfe to leak the FISA warrant application and got off with really no penalty at all. My bet is you will now find WOllfe working at and extremely well paid NGO funded by George Soros.
Here’s another link to the document, incase anyone wants to download it and read it when they have time.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.515692/gov.uscourts.vaed.515692.78.0.pdf
You were right about Bob Barr. You are probably right about Durham. I mean, what’s taking so long? This should have been a wrap long ago resulting in gutting the FBI DC Operations and casting the many guilty into prison.
“This should have been a wrap long ago”
But the statutes of limitation wouldn’t be run out then…
Hey, at least one guy got “prosecuted,” kinda’:
Former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, who during the Russia, Russia, Russia investigation altered an email from the CIA stating that Carter Page HAD been a CIA asset against the Russians into a statement that he HAD NOT been a CIA asset that was then used to justify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court allowed warrant against him.
His grossly illegal act effectively enabled surveillance of virtually the entire Trump campaign entourage because of the “three-hop” rule allowed for that kind of surveillance. “If the average person called 40 unique people, three-hop analysis would allow the government to mine the records of 2.5 million Americans”
Kevin Clinesmith’s punishment for that incredibly severe felony has been 12 months probation and 400 hours of community service and he has been reinstated as a member “in good standing” to the District of Columbia Bar Association.
Considering the state of the bar in DC and most other cities, Clinesmith probably is in good standing (snark)
You forgot the $100 fine. He likely had to throw more than that on the bar as the Judge, prosecutors, defense lawyers all had a few back slaps and laughed themselves into a stupor. Only in Amerika.
Statute of Limitations my friends. Durham can’t do shyte after X years and he knows it.
Game theory. T I M I N G. Take the 30,000 ft level viewpoint. Incredibly complex operations going on behind the scenes from both sides. I personally think that Patel Patriot’s theory is on point, connecting a ton of dots as well as having the simplest, most logical line of reasoning for what’s been going on. I imagine we’re coming to a headpoint… something is going to happen soon. Things might start to unfold and come into view as you look around things are already starting to pick up pace and wake up some people along the way.
“What’s taking so long?”
So long?
This isn’t a typical RICO case but in normal RICO cases the first phase lasts 3 to 5 YEARS.
This phase is supposed to be without leaks or statements to the public related to what’s going on.
This NOT PUBLIC phase, includes using grand juries to get testimony under oath and indictments, which remain sealed, until the prosecutors, after developing a lawfare plan, believe theyre ready for the second phase; legal war with defense attorneys.
That’s when prosecutors begin strategically playing their sealed indictment cards. Indictments start to be unsealed and charges filed with courts.
A factor affecting the time line was muh covid. The “pandemic” was used as an excuse to delay appearing before Durhams grand jury by those who had been supoened to appear.
For fretfuls, wouldnt being concerned that it hasn’t taken long enough to get to this point would be more logical?
As for me, I take President Trumps approach. I’m watching with interest to see how things unfold, learning more and more about the lawfare “game” while praying for all involved.
His peace was offered. I accepted. His peace is with me.
Here’s the NYT’s take, of course:
Durham Inquiry Appears to Wind Down as Grand Jury Expires
September 14, 2022
https://www.yahoo.com/news/durham-inquiry-appears-wind-down-122137208.html\
WASHINGTON — When John Durham was assigned by the Justice Department in 2019 to examine the origins of the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, President Donald Trump and his supporters expressed a belief that the inquiry would prove that a “deep state” conspiracy including top Obama-era officials had worked to sabotage him.
Now Durham appears to be winding down his three-year inquiry without anything close to the results Trump was seeking. The grand jury that Durham has recently used to hear evidence has expired, and while he could convene another, there are currently no plans to do so, three people familiar with the matter said.
With all this “winding down” so to is the time line to have ANYTHING done about the corrupt and stolen 2020 Presidential election. Nice play DOJ. Slow walked and deflection, the real magicians have performed remarkably.
“… Grand Jury Expires
September 14, 2022 …” = Mission Accomplished.
Then FBI/DOJ demons will likely indite/arrest President Trump and continue, I mean, begin their new Mission of Destruction.
Lol. Cute, emotionally manipulative, spin from the NYT. Also a great “How Lawfare and Psywar Savvy Are You?” Test.
Done with this grand jury =/= done.
Done with this grand jury=/= cant convene another grand jury if more indictments are needed.
Does the NYT know how many sealed indictments Durham has obtained, who is indicted and for what?
Nope.
Many people enjoying betting and guessing. For many this is the motivation needed to remain engaged and tuned in.
However, only when Durham formally says his work is done can anyone honestly start to assess Durhams “results”.
There is no justice in the U.S.A. That shining city on a hill has become a pile of judicial dung.
Don’t insult manure.
You are too nice in your assessment.
Keep chanting. With enough repetitions the words may come true.
Petsonally, I prefer hearing, reading and repeating President Trumps words.
Darkness or Light? Everybody chooses.
It’s interesting to note that the Warren Commission only existed for about a year and came up with ‘something’ which was probably a lot of ‘nothing’. What say you, Durham….going on your fourth year.
Durham == Special Prosecutor of complex networks of criminality. The investigative phase typically takes 3 to 5 YEARS.
Congressional Commissions=/= criminal investigations. They just look into something and issue a report.
Durham == CRIMINAL investigation + prosecutions.
Anybody with a triple digit IQ and a memory has known all of this since basically 2017 we knew right at the beginning it was all a hoax but what do we do no one’s ever going to be held accountable nothing’s ever going to change like George Carlin says just be happy with what you got
“We knew right at the beginning it was a hoax”.
Guessing/believing =/= knowing.
Typically beliefs are the enemy of understanding.
Bottom line, until Durham formally concludes his work, there is no way to know.
Anybody that thought Durham was going to get to the bottom of anything or hold anybody accountable from the very beginning from the very day he was appointed is sadly naive very naive childlike naivety
tens of millions of fake right wing dupes believed in durham
Bill Barr is pure evil.
that rotten POS durham and every lawyer involved should be put against a wall and shot. they milked the taxpayers out of tens of millions and DID NOTHING just like ken starr. they believe in nothing but robbing taxpayers. durham could not even convict one guy of lying to the fbi. a 12 year old could do that it is impossible to avoid “lying” to the fbi yet durham failed there also. all the stupid dupes on the fake right for years…durham gonna get hillary and jail her
Easy on the lack-of-conviction aspect, there: While there’s much to be troubled by with Durham’s foot-dragging, the not-guilty verdict wasn’t entirely his fault. No Democrat will ever be convicted, of anything, inside the Beltway. We lost that war a long time ago.
Right, but this is a federal case so he didn’t have to file in DC. He chose to bring the suit in the location guaranteeing an acquittal. He let klinesmith off with literally NO punishment and he flat out forged an email to make the fisa warrant happen- to be used against a Presidential candidate and then President! This is a joke. Durham just destroyed his name for life if he doesn’t have a Trump card up his sleeve.
Thanks for inspiring heart felt prayers for all who feel this way.
Fortunately, my leader and guide, President Trump, does not. God bless him.
Perhaps consider that President Trump and members of his team like Devin Nunes, Ratcliffe, Trunps head of the DNI who worked with Durham, and Kash Patel might know a teensy bit more than any armchair?
Unlike armchairs they’ve seen all the still classified documents and know the people armchairs are guessing about.
Please consider rage posting less and praying more.
trump Qanon and durham playing 4D chess. patriots are in charge. hillary in orange jump suit hahahahaahah
There’s Q and then there is the anons.
Users of the term Qanon suggests the user may still be infected by another Corporate Media manufactured mind virus.
QDS, like TDS was created to trigger emotions when exposed to cue words.
Once triggered, these emotions prevent logical research and critical analysis.
Fortunately, I’m seeing signs of recovery more and more frequently. Thank God.
Durham was put up as the one who would vindicate President Trump because he was taking time and being ever so careful. What a crock!
All he’s done is rack up expenses, ruin peoples’ lives and a salary for what? He’s Deep State for sure.
“All he’s done is rack up expenses…..He’s Deep State for sure”.
” What a crock!”
Perhaps guess and rage post less and instead pray more? Or dont.
I read in another article that Garland will review the findings before releasing it to the media. Well, that’s just “another brick in the wall”, or in other words Durham’s work will never be seen by the American people.
This has been my argument right along: Durham was always a misdirection. It was intended to stall Trump on the declassifications, and to get him to limit them, all while putting up the big fan-dance of a search for truth, justice, and the American way. Durham is running out the clock on more serious crimes where possible, and Barr was ever the deep-state tool. For my part, I would love to know who first brought Barr to PDJT’s attention for the AG gig. Or who put him under that person’s nose. They tricked Trump to bringing in his own hangman.
The Bushes.
Are you surprised?
“They tRiCkEd Trump”.
Those dastardly, never named, “theys”.
Fortunately Real Trump is nothing like Make Believe Trump.
However, belief in Make Believe Trump helps Real Trump succeed so while profoundly mistaken, they’re still very helpful.
The way the country was going three years ago was the real trump and the proof is there to see .
Such crap — funded by us who are taxpayers.
That smug face on Barr 🤮
It gives me no joy to say, “well duh, we tried to tell you”.
There is no judicial solution, there is no political solution.
Pushing the NWO Death Cults solutions rather than President Trumps is a perplexing decision. Perhaps reconsider.
Blood sacrifices to the tree gods and a new reign of terror are what’s needed? Needed by whom?
So John Durham is a crook just like Barr and the rest of them. Got it. Shocking that so few realize we have a heaven to win and a hell to shun. Thomas Jefferson, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever.”
What about “Epstein/Barr?” Covered up the “suicide”after purportedly being appalled by the “lack of security. “
Barr’s Father ran a prestigious private school in NYC. He hired Epstein as a “TEACHER”. Nothing to see here!!!
Just another coincidence
How does the efff bee ahhh run their corrupt gestapo hits out in the open while being “investigated by Durham?”
They clearly have nothing to fear!
When they’re running a cover operation they slow walk it. When they want justice it’s swift and expedient.
Durham doesn’t believe he’s protecting the American people or the constitution or there would be urgency
“Durham doesn’t believe”.
Believing one can read a strangers mind?
using facts about a long drawn out nothing investigation can be a insight into his mind .
“This is where we must stop pretending. The Durham premise of a “duped FBI” is laughable on its face. No one in the FBI or DOJ-NSD was “duped” by false information from Igor Danchenko.”
… or the FISA Court, CIA, NSA et. al.
“Duped FBI” or tried to dupe the FBI =/= Innocent FBI.
Notice, as Sundance just pointed out, thanks to Durhams latest court filing, we now know that AFTER learning for sure that Danshenko lied to them repeatedly, the FBI hired him as a CHS Ie Confidential Human Source.
Why? As Nunes and Kash Patel pointed out in interviews reacting to Syrians filing, in order to protect the FBI/DOJs Spygate Russiagate predicate from public scrutiny.
“OMG thats classified; you cant reveal sources and methods without endangering our nAtioNaL sEcuRitY”.
Which ties into Raidgate which. the FBI/DOJ claims was to recover classified documents in President Trumps possession that, if released, would endanger our nAtiOnAl sEcuRity.
These are the same FBI/DOJ players who were involved in Spygate/Russiagate.
Obamas EO 13526 Sec. 1.7. which is still in effect, prohibits using classifications and muh nAtioNaL sEcuRitY claims to hide criminality or even embarrassing screw ups from the public. Something the Derp State depends on being able to do.
Belief, especially beliefs with strong emotions attached to them, are often the enemy of understanding.
My guess?
Swamp Wile Es are being hoist on their own petards by Road Runner Trump and his allies. Not in Warner Bro TV time but in Real World Time.
As Warner Brothers Cartoons famously used to say and President Trump still says, ” Stay tuned, folks”.
Meep. MAGA. Meep.
Barr is a disgrace to the Roman Catholic Church and Opus Dei. He needs to confess all his sins– every single one of them..
Robert Mueller: Russia interfered in the 2016 election on behalf of Trump. Trump is a Russian puppet, and wants to destroy the Republic on Russia’s behalf.
John Durham: Russia interfered in the 2016 election on behalf of
TrumpHillary.TrumpHillary is a Russian puppet, and wants to destroy the Republic on Russia’s behalf.*
Same false narrative, different parties being demonized as Russian puppets.
Mueller and Durham are two sides of the same coin.
I gotta say i fear the Russians less than our so called government ,.
Other lawyers have stated Durham could have gone after the FBI head honchos or pawns… he went after pawns.
“He went after pawns”.
Hasn’t gone after yet =/= is NOT going after
Unfamiliarity with real world building and/or RICO lawfare can lead to flawed analysis of what’s being seen.
When building a skyscraper or building a RICO case, competents start from the ground or bottom and work up.
Establishing a firm foundation before going higher is VITAL.
Some” lawyers have stated”.
Some lawyers will state whatever theyre paid to state.
Perhaps find and listen to better lawyers who are able to make more honest and more educated GUESSES about what’s happening/will happen.
It is so sad over on TruthSocial, all the people excited and hopeful that finally Durham is going to roll up the deep state. I’m telling them what’s up, and they are accusing me of spreading blackpills, and being a deep state shill.
I really hope we are wrong about this, but experience says this is exactly how it’s going down
Hey, I just remembered John Huber!!! Recall, he was going to get to the bottom of the Clinton Foundation corruption. NOT. It’s deja vu all over again.