The legal case brought by prosecutor John Durham against Igor Danchenko is predicated on the notion that Christopher Steele’s source for his dossier 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.
Transparently everyone knows the FBI were not duped by Danchenko and records indicate Danchenko told them the Steele dossier was full of fabricated nonsense. Additionally, to keep the revelation of the dossier as nonsense hidden, the FBI hired Danchenko as a confidential human source, technically shielding him from being questioned or exposed. The FBI decision to hire Danchenko was to keep the fraudulent dossier useful for their Trump targeting operation.
So, what’s going on?
This is where John Durham is doing two things: (1) He is protecting the corrupt DOJ and FBI institutions by not investigating any government action; and yet, (2) Durham is exposing corrupt FBI and DOJ action through his court filings and cases. Yesterday Durham provided more evidence of just how corrupt the FBI was in the lead-in to the 2016 election.
FBI supervisory analyst Brian Auten testified Tuesday that Hillary Clinton’s contracted opposition researcher, Christopher Steele, hired by Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Donald Trump, was offered up to $1 million by the FBI in early October 2016 if Chris Steele could prove the claims within the Trump dirt dossier he authored.
Steele was never paid the money because he could not prove the claims within the dossier, nor would he give up the name of the primary source for the information, Igor Danchenko. However, despite the FBI knowing the dossier could not be proved, validated or verified, later that same month they used the dossier as evidence to support a Title-1 FISA warrant against former Trump campaign aide, Carter Page.
The details provided by Durham only prove the researched outline we made almost 5 years ago.
The FBI knew the Steele dossier was junk, yet they used it in lieu of the mandatory ‘Woods File’ to seek an all-inclusive secret search warrant against the Trump campaign. Carter Page was a tool for the fraudulent search warrant, the FBI knew Carter Page from previous work he had done for them as an informant. However, to get the warrant they needed to accuse Page of being an asset of a foreign government – so they did. The Steele Dossier was used as manufactured evidence to support the FISA application.
The FBI goal was to create a legal mechanism putting everyone in/around Donald Trump under surveillance. This was the “insurance policy” as described by FBI agent Peter Strzok. The FBI had been conducting unlawful political surveillance against Donald Trump throughout the 2016 campaign, the FISA warrant was used as the legal basis to make the previous and future surveillance legal.
The FBI knew the dossier was junk, the FBI didn’t care – they needed it to create a fraudulent search warrant.
The FBI knew Carter Page was not a Russian asset, the FBI didn’t care – they needed him to get to Trump.
The FBI goal was always to conduct political surveillance against Donald Trump.
(Via CNN) – Shortly before the 2016 election, the FBI offered retired British spy Christopher Steele “up to $1 million” to prove the explosive allegations in his dossier about Donald Trump, a senior FBI analyst testified Tuesday.
The cash offer was made during an October 2016 meeting between Steele and several top FBI officials who were trying to corroborate Steele’s claims that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia to win the election.
FBI supervisory analyst Brian Auten testified that Steele never got the money because he could not “prove the allegations.”
Auten also said Steele refused to provide the names of any of his sources during that meeting, and that Steele didn’t give the FBI anything during that meeting that corroborated the claims in his explosive dossier.
Auten was testifying at the criminal trial of Igor Danchenko, a primary source for Steele’s dossier, who is being prosecuted by special counsel John Durham. Danchenko has pleaded not guilty to lying to the FBI.
CNN previously reported that the FBI reimbursed some expenses for Steele, who had been an FBI informant.
Durham, a Trump-era prosecutor who is looking for misconduct in the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation, has used some of the proceedings Tuesday to criticize the FBI’s handling of some of the early steps in the Russia probe. Durham handled many of the in-court arguments on Tuesday and personally questioned Auten on the witness stand – a rare move for a special counsel and former US attorney. (read more)
Offering $1 million to a source to provide evidence is not a decision made by a supervisory special agent.
The authorization to spend up to $1 million for evidence is a decision made by the Director or Deputy Director of the FBI.
October 2016: FBI Director James Comey, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
Follow the timeline:
Steele offered $1 million to prove the dossier in early October 2016. He cannot.
FBI uses dossier in late October for a FISA warrant against Trump campaign.
Dossier source Igor 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.
I am still missing something. I fail to see how getting all this on the official record helps the fbi and doj cover up anything. It’s all there just waiting for the political will to act. If Durham doesn’t have the courage to do it, he’s at least laid it all there for those who do. Seems to me he could have really kept stuff like this from coming out at all. Again, I don’t see how this helps the DS at all.
No. You’re not missing anything. The people that keep repeating “bondo, spray paint, are NOT very bright. They are sheep!
At this point, the FBI just needs to go. They are not protecting American citizens, they are attacking American citizens and all of our freedoms. They actually are making the Gestapo look like a fair and balanced police force these days. I just never thought I would see this happen in this great country of ours but here it is right in our faces.
And there you are … an obviously white supremacist … domestic terrorist. You just went on some watch list and are being surveilled by some 24 yo left wing FBI hire … or hell … by some 22 yo Law Clerk working for Perkins Coie. Right?
While watching Bull Durham sand over and apply the Earl Shibe $99.99 Paint Job to Bondo Barr’s handy work … I go to looking back over all we had discussed here on CTH back to 2008 regarding Obama, Hillary, Clinton Foundation, The Deep State, President Trump …. and the Ukraine Quid pro Quo Impeachment.
The DoJ and FBI is are NOT looking for CROSS FIRE HURRICANE document and materials. The whole tinhg is moot and can easily be spun away at this point.
President Trump uncovered the US-EU-NATO plan to occupy the Donbas. This is what they are need to find.
Question (I don’t have my notes handy, and my memory may be faulty) – aren’t all these same “players” involved in Uranium One? Seems like Mueller & Co. were involved in all of that.
The players i was referring to was the US State Department employees working in the EU and Ukraine. They were the actual “doers” on the ground.
President Trump wrecked all their plans and caused the whole operation to go dormant. President Trump also managed to assemble his own file on their efforts from known sources inside the government as well as sources outside the Government. Those outside sources are the really dangerous ones for the Deep State, because as President he declassifies the meeting and nobody knows what is recorded. Plus, he can declare meeting notes as his property.
The current US Government is in a panic because he has a full copy of their plans and objectives.
Mueller and Company are not even factors in this set of information.
At this point, President Trump is literally in a life of death situation for himself and family. Plus, there is allot involved beyond the survival of his family on a Global Basis if I am right.
I do not begrudge him playing this hand as he sees fit and entering the rumble as he sees fit.
Get tired all you want there are more chips riding on this than our personal comfort.
Earl Scheib … good recall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Scheib
The only complaint I have is that Earl Scheib is a famous LOW COST schlock auto body shop … what’s been bondo’ed over by this Institutional “Shop” is very HIGH COST … it’s COST us our Republic.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec memo was a summary of an Oct. 11, 2016 meeting between Kavalec, Steele and Tatyana Duran, a colleague of Steele’s at the Orbis.
[Memo] makes it crystal clear that FBI officials had to know Steele was working on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign when they received a copy of the infamous “Steele dossier” from the State Department in October 2016
FBI Director Christopher Wray has drawn the thick black line of redaction over the rest of Kavalec’s notes regarding her meeting with Steele and Durban — until Dec. 31, 2041.
The mere three sentences that the FBI allowed State to release, unredacted, show that Kavalec sent an email two days after her encounter with Steele, alerting others.
https://www.westernjournal.com/damning-steele-memo-finally-unearthed-fbis-response-just-plain-crooked/
Be sure to click through to Solomon’s article at The Hill: thehill.com/opinion/white-house/442592-steeles-stunning-pre-fisa-confession-informant-needed-to-air-trump-dirt/
Get the hell rid of Wray!
These sick federal rogue bastards.
So – fake all the elections—
Select don’t elect.
Any dissenters who want a free republic can be slandered, shot, raided, or just have their asses thrown in jail with no due process.
Shut these agencies down!
They don’t represent anything except their handler’s interests.
Sick, sick, sick…. 🤮 🤮🤮
Tear down that government.
No. Prosecute the “dirty cops”. The States must assert their powers.
Not enough jail cells in the world for all the dirty cops.
Who said they all go to jail? Some go to gallows. These people tried to frame a president!
Combine the jail cells, burial plots, mausoleums, urns…
Still not enough room for all the high and tight, filthy pensionpigs.
Just give them each two vaxxs and 4 boosters, one right after the other so they are made shining examples to us all
Dump them into the ocean.
We got dirty Judges and dirty Generals too
So, we get a whole lot of exposure, but no prosecutions. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Nothing. As with Sandy Berger, Lois Lerner, Michael Byrd, HRC…
Nothing.
The silence of the GOP is ghastly.
…………was offered up to $1 million by the FBI in early October 2016 if Chris Steele could prove the claims within the Trump dirt dossier he authored.
So, let me see if I’ve got this straight. The FBI offers to pay a guy a million bucks if the guy can prove the stuff he wrote was true? The FBI, as it’s name would imply, is in the business of investigating things, yet they want to pay a guy to investigate his own work?
Sounds to me like they knew damn well from the onset Steele’s work was crap, that they would never be paying him a dime, and that if they did pay out some money the FBI would then hold that transaction as leverage against Steele to extort what ever else they needed from him.
This all is exactly as we saw it coming, all branches are corrupt. Who just had a court award 1 Billion dollars in damages for the opinion of someone who questions a mass shooting and is given a verdict by the judge and not being allowed to put on a defense at trial?
At this point it’s too late, someone needs to hit the flush lever on the whole shebang.
Situations like this led to some radical leaders in the past Napoleon, Stalin, and Hitler come to mind immediately, beware of electing someone who can fix this because history may not repeat, but it sure can rhyme.
It is shit bang — not shebang! 💩 💩💩
Thank you, Sundance for keeping us up to speed all these past years on these disgusting criminal acts by Federal employees, the Administrative state. FUBAR!!!!
Why aren’t people really mad? Oh they are worried about Russia using nucs or OPEC cutting our oil supply. Total FUBAR situation.
Most people can’t even find Russia on a map. People won’t get really mad until they find out they can no longer watch Tic-Toc videos all day long on their cell (babysitter) phones.
Unless/until life circumstances directly effect them (can’t get gas or food) most Americans couldn’t be bothered with any of the treason or misdeeds that their government is responsible for.
Oh how far we’ve fallen….
This was a $1 million bribe of taxpayers’ money to induce Steele to manufacture evidence so they could have something concrete with which to destroy Trump.
Steele didn’t take the bait — knowing it could eventually lead back to him with dire consequences — and always couched everything he claimed in the careful language of plausible deniability sans any concreteness.
Fecklessness. Betrayal. Insurrection.
Fuhrer’s Bureau of Intimidation.
Or he couldn’t prove it.
What kind of games are afoot here, though?
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Goals of Danchenko, Clinton ally ‘coincided,’ FBI agent says
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/oct/12/goals-danchenko-clinton-ally-coincided-fbi-agent-s/
after all this, senator mike lee still respects the Fibber’s Bureau of Incrimination… no wonder polls show him at only 41% and socialist McMullin at 37%. All part of the Uniparty script and big payoffs to remain silent.
Comey has blocked all comments on his Twitter.
“Carter Page was a tool for the fraudulent search warrant, the FBI knew Carter Page from previous work he had done for them as an informant. However, to get the warrant they needed to accuse Page of being an asset of a foreign government – so they did. The Steele Dossier was used as manufactured evidence to support the FISA application.”
I have long wondered if Carter Page was a willing tool in the FBI’s corrupt scheme? Note Carter Page worked for the FBI before! How did an FBI operative become involved in the Trump campaign to begin with?
Did Carter Page insert himself into the Trump campaign for the purpose of becoming a target of FBI surveillance thereby opening up surveillance of the campaign?
I know many people consider Page some kind of victim in this affair but note the DOJ never charged him with any crime and his lawsuits against the DOJ and others for defamation didn’t go anywhere. His life and reputation was not destroyed in the way Gen. Flynn’s life and reputation was destroyed.
I always found Page quirky in his TV appearances. There seems to be something “off” about the guy. Again how did an FBI operative come to be involved in the Trump campaign?
I would be curious to hear what Sundance thinks of this theory.
Wasn’t Carter Page the longtime FBI source that Strozk said they would need to “burn” in their investigation of the Trump campaign?
Former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page claimed in congressional testimony that their “insurance policy” text message was a reference to an internal FBI discussion about whether to potentially expose a longtime bureau source by mounting an aggressive investigation against the Trump campaign.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/22/strzok-lisa-page-insurance-policy-burn-source/
Could be and it’s possible that Page agreed to be burned because he viewed taking out a presidential candidate to be a greater cause than ensnaring obscure Russian businessmen.
I believe CTH on the whole some time ago assessed the Carter Page bit much as you’ve described it here.
He’s dodgy, things don’t add up, and there are far too many known corrupt players run at the Trump campaign to regard Carter Page as a plausible innocent.
A slap on the wrist here, a year probation there, here a show…and zero consequences for anyone.
Durham is merely another play actor for the deep state. No repercussions, no prison, no nothing except more taxpayer money down the drain to fund the show.
I can’t stand Durham and especially after he spoke out wanting even more war, more destruction and lives destroyed in Russia/Ukraine tragedy.
God forbid any of these amoral politicians live what the innocent civilians
have endured since 2014…people’s lives are merely a means to an end.
The FBI is a corrupt institution. Ya think? It’s always been so; “During its first 15 years, the Bureau was a shadow of its future self. It was not yet strong enough to withstand the sometimes corrupting influence of patronage politics on hiring, promotions, and transfers.” (fbi.gov “a brief history”). Ask Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, M. L. King, indeed D. J. Trump, about their political corruption!
I’m shocked, shocked that there is gambling taking place here!
Sorry…I don’t believe one damn thing coming from any of the traditional media, who all lie. So…the story coming from the DOJ documentation, or court filings or whatever from wherever is just more b s and lies. No friendly country told the FBI that Trump was colluding with Russia. That’s just the story they used. They needed to have a reason…and that’s it. Is it the truth? Give me a break. Why would anyone believe anything coming from the media, government, DOJ or any other affiliated organization. They were looking at Trump as a possible threat way back when. The entire system, government, all its agencies, the media, judicial, etc…all criminal and corrupt. Now, not every single person…..but unfortunately what “good guys” remain….have no power and have to watch their step….or else! You will become one of those deplorable, domestic terrorists or white supremacist people that our DOJ and FBI have warned us about.
They have been playing us for a very long time. And it seems, they really don’t care that we know now. They obviously have the confidence that they own and have infiltrated every part of the system and we…have no way out. It ain’t pretty…and most of us are fed up. Will this midterm change things…I doubt it. Our election system is part of “their” system and the proof was 2020. So…is it dillusional for us to have hope and believe we can vote our way out of this? I’ll be voting. But I don’t expect much and I doubt that I will be surprised.
It’s the lack of acknowledgement of the agitprop nature of the FBI’s efforts, by everyone, that infuriates me. “Spying” on the campaign is such a nothingburger by comparison.
The FBI needed the FISA warrant to get inside of Trump’s communications for a reason. After luring people within the Trump orbit overseas with phony offers of employment and networking opportunities (OCONUS lures), they got western intel contractors (Halper, Misfurd) to pretend to be Russian agents and make phony offers to targets like Page and Papadopoulos. FISA warrant in hand they could then discover the “evidence” they had just planted as soon as one of their patsies forwarded it onto the campaign.
Bold plan… didn’t work.
None of the patsies were willing to entertain the idea of Russian “assistance” so the “evidence” never reached its target. If it had worked, then sometime around October the FBI would “reluctantly” have announced a criminal investigation of Trumps “treason” in the expectation he would be forced off the ballot.
Greatest scandal in American history, and not even the FBI’s opponents are thinking it all the way thru.
The point of the Durham strategy is to prove that the Dossier was a fraud paid by Hillary and that spying of Trump took place; show who was responsible, and that DJT was an innocent victim of a lawless FBI. Once the world knows the truth presented in a court of law with actual, irrefutable evidence Durham’s job is done regardless of the verdict.
So the gubt used taxpayer funds stolen from us to collude with foreigners during and after our 2016 elections?!
Conspiracy theory CONFIRMED as fact.
I would describe this as a material fact, FBI willing to pay Steele $1 million for corrobative evidence and his inability to provide same.
Six years later we learn this?
February 2019, Bill Barr enters as Attorney General
Sorry … but Barr needs to HANG … I’m DEAD SERIOUS … along with all the other co-conspirators who plotted to overthrow a “Democratically elected” POTUS. We The People deserve no less. This was an attempted assassination just as surely as Lincoln was assassinated. And these co-conspirators extend all the way to HER … and HER Lawfare Team who constructed and operated this entire Deep State coup. If Mary Surratt … the Rooming House Lady … hung … then so should SHE. NO. Locking her up expired in 2016.