![]() ![]() ![]() Again, all while they knew Danchenko had admitted it was baseless. Ron Sachs/CNP / įBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, counterintelligence officer Peter Strzok, analyst Brian Auten and Justice attorney Kevin Clinesmith pretended the Danchenko “intel” was credible to get the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court’s OK for wiretaps on Carter Page and dupe the Justice Department to keep granting approval for Trump campaign surveillance (which did not corroborate the wild claims). Special counsel John Durham’s investigation brought the flimsy beginnings of the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe to light. ![]() But that was hardly the only poisoned fruit. The Comey meeting where he served up these nonsense stories prompted both House and Senate Intelligence committees to open probes. Yet the public only learned it years later, once the Durham probe began. That, plus publicly reported info, was all Christopher Steele (a retired British spy who doesn’t even speak Russian) ever had to back up his “dossier.” And the FBI knew it since at least January 2017, when it interviewed Danchenko.Ĭomey hid all this during his meetings, and after. In fact, the FBI had already established that the root source was US-based former Brookings flunky Igor Danchenko’s utterly speculative gossip with an ex-girlfriend and a Democratic Party hack. In the Steele dossier, which was published in full by Buzzfeed News in January 2017, Dolan’s email is related nearly verbatim, though it is cited as coming from an American political figure. It advised Comey to present accusations that Trump’s campaign chair Paul Manafort and foreign policy adviser Carter Page were working with the Russian government as coming from a confidential Russia-based source with real intel-community chops. The FBI knew the Trump-Russia collusion narrative was utter bunk even as it suggested otherwise to Congress, the courts and the public early in 2017. Evidence revealed by special counsel John Durham proves it beyond dispute.Īt RealClearInvestigations, Paul Sperry lays out the case.ĭeclassified for Durham’s probe, a March 2017 memo prepared by Lisa Page for FBI head James Comey’s meeting with Congress’ “Gang of Eight” - the bipartisan House and Senate leaders who oversee the most classified stuff - was a total cook-up job. The Full Text of the Nunes Memo On Friday, the House Intelligence Committee released the controversial document, which alleges surveillance abuses by the FBI. Mitch McConnell drowned out by ‘RETIRE!’ chants during speech Former FBI agent pleads guilty to working for Russian oligarchĭon vows to release ‘irrefutable’ report exonerating him in Georgia election-tampering caseĮSPN bashed for Megan Rapinoe tribute after World Cup disaster: ‘Left wing propaganda’ Igor Danchenko, the Russian analyst considered the primary source of the 'Steele dossier,' a 2016 opposition research report filled with unproven, compromising personal and financial information. The Steele dossier was a report compiled by the former British spy Christopher Steele and financed by Democrats that included salacious allegations about Trump’s conduct in Russia and. ![]()
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