Posted on 07/27/2020 5:10:23 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
If you’ve been wondering what all the hullabaloo over the weekend about the Steele Dossier and Christopher Steele’s “sub-source” was all about, and why it’s important, let me try to explain it to you:
First, why it’s important:
It’s important because the Steele Dossier was used by the Obama FBI, led by James Comey, as pretty much the sole support for securing FISA warrants allowing it to spy on the Trump Campaign. Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok and all the rest lied to the FISA court by characterizing the Dossier, Steele himself, and Steele’s unidentified “sub-source” as being reliable and credible, and “Russia-based.”
Those were all outright, bald-faced lies.
The FBI also withheld the fact that Steele’s work was funded by the Pantsuit Princess campaign and the Democrat National Committee. The FISA judges never heard that from the FBI or the DOJ, and only learned about it through the efforts of good men like Congressman Devin Nunes, who risked their political careers and their lives to get that information out onto the public record.
Now to the sub-source:
Last week, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified documents that revealed the identity of Steele’s “sub-source,” i.e., the guy who basically fed all him all of the unsubstantiated rumors and fantasies that make up his Dossier.
That guy’s name is Igor Danchenko. Mr. Danchenko is a former Russian national, but has been a resident in the United States for many years. Thus, he is not at all “Russia-based.”
Oh.
But it gets better. It turns out that Danchenko worked for many years at the leftist Brookings Institution think tank, a favorite of Obama’s, one that provided “research” support for most of Obama’s god-awful policies.
Oh.
But it gets even better than that. It also turns out that Danchenko worked closely with a woman named Fiona Hill, a so-called “Russia expert,” and co-authored a paper with her when they were both working at Brookings during 2016.
You may remember Ms. Hill as an Obama-plant employee at the National Council who served as one of the key “witnesses” at last year’s impeachment farce hearings. Ms. Hill was hired into the NSC by the evil H.R. McMaster, who became President Trump’s National Security Advisor after the FBI successfully framed General Mike Flynn.
Oh.
But it gets even better than all of that, if you can believe it. Here’s an excerpt from a report by John Solomon at JustTheNews.com:
In addition, the president of the Brookings Institution — former Clinton administration figure Strobe Talbott — contacted Steele early in the Russia collusion probe and requested a copy of his dossier to share with Obama administration officials, according to Steele’s recent testimony in a British lawsuit.
“I remember taking a phone call from him, your Lordship, earlier in the summer, in which he said that he was aware that I had — he spoke in fairly cryptic terms, but he was aware that we had material of relevance to the U.S. election,” Steele testified in March in the British lawsuit.
Steele claimed Talbott learned about his dossier work from either former National Security Adviser Susan Rice or former Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. Rice’s spokesman has denied having such contact about the dossier. Nuland acknowledged knowing about Steele’s dossier in July 2016 and claimed she directed her staff to send the former MI-6 agent to the FBI.
“Although he didn’t state it explicitly, one or either or both of them had briefed him on the work we had been doing,” Steele testified.
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Oh.
But – and I’m not kidding here – it gets even better than that. More from the John Solomon report:
Talbott’s brother-in-law, Cody Shearer, distributed his own anti-Trump Russia dossier in September 2016, according to evidence released by Congress and the DOJ inspector general. It included some of the same allegations as those in Steele’s.
And then in early 2017 Talbott provided a copy of the Steele dossier to Hill after she started working inside the Trump National Security Council, according to Hill’s impeachment testimony. Hill admitted she met multiple times with Steele in 2016.
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[Devin] Nunes told Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo that he is opening a “full-blown” probe into the role Brookings and its figures played with Steele and the entire Russia episode.
“People may remember the president of Brookings back in 2016, we know that he had given the dossier to a few people, we had that through testimony,” Nunes explained. “You also may remember that the State Department was involved and there were additional dossiers that weren’t the Steele dossiers, except that they mirrored the Steele dossiers.”
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So, we now see this web of lies, deceit and outright treason now implicating a major leftist think tank and winding its way deep into the Trump National Security Council thanks to McMaster’s betrayal.
Unwinding all of this is a massive, Herculean task, and the man assigned with that task by William Barr is U.S. Attorney John Durham. So, if you’re wondering why it is taking awhile for Durham to get to the part of his work that involves perp-walks and indictments, well, it should be starting to become more clear to you now.
Barack Obama corrupted literally every institution of the federal government, and that corruption dominated the first two years of the Trump administration and lingers still, just 3 months before President Trump stands for re-election. That’s how deep and wide and completely ingrained it has become.
This is a cancer on our nation, and it is very important that Durham and Barr get all of it out. While it would certainly be gratifying for Durham to indict one of the big tumors – like, say Comey or John Brennan or even Strzok – if doing that imperils the goal of eradicating the metastasized cancer completely, then it wouldn’t be worth it.
We should give Durham and Barr the time to get it all out in one fell swoop. This cancer cannot be allowed to linger and grow again.
That is all.
I’ve always said that this SCANDAL is like a HUGE SNAKE PIT.
We should give Durham and Barr the time to get it all out in one fell swoop.
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A good chunk of their work has already been done for them by Judicial Watch and other resourceful people. There’s a ton of information and evidence already in the public domain.
Also, there’s no need to do this in “one fell swoop”. Plenty of indictments could already have been made by now.
none of this matters......Trump loses, the biden doj makes it all disappear...
Does Igor Danchenko or his “associates” have a copy of Obama’s real Birth Certificate? The Russians and their intelligence agents have to know the true story of Obama’s birth versus the deep state made up version.
This is a good article. This clearly lays out a chunk of what we need to understand. We need more reporting like this.
That time is NOW, Mr. Blackmon. Durham should make his big data dump now. In time to affect the election in November.
Because if he doesn’t, and the other side wins, it will get buried again.
Wake me when somebody gets arrested...
The blatant treason and sedition is ‘so complex’ that no Democrat could ever be charged, /s
(except for maybe low useful idiots like Strozek and Page, . . naaww its sooo complex)
Sounds like they found that collusion everybody was looking for. And guess what?, it looks like the Democrats had it the whole time!
We should give Durham and Barr the time to get it all out in one fell swoop.
And it better be soon! The Democrats know how bad it is. Why do you think we have all this insanity going on now? They don’t want the truth to be told. Thought they could roll Trump and since that did not work, they are trying to roll the country. The sad part is that the American people are the ones that are paying for all of this watching love ones die, family lives destroyed, businesses destroyed.
Patience is a virtue.....
Nothing is ever going to happen to any of these coup conspirators. Nothing to see here.
I know. I need some No-Doze...
I want these damn 501(3)(C) organizations like Brookings to lose their tax exempt status. Brookings was clearly involved in electioneering. Brookings is also accepts foreign money and lobbies for foreign governments - read Russia and China.
Fiona Hill has some explaining to do with her connection to Danchenko and Steele. Odds are she was a confidential human source for the FBI in the WH.
Justice? There is no justice. There is only politics.
Fundamental Transformation
Fiona Hill...As I listened to her I thought...First, you’re a f’n liar and second...you do not make policy.
The Brookings Institute, and our old buddy Strobe Talbott? Well now...
If the hangings should be at either Leavenworth or the Supermax, I'll drive up and help build the gallows. After the fair trials, of course.
However, in the twain I'm sticking with my tagline until proven wrong.
Agreed and it could even cause a domino effect with the major players starting to give each other up to Durham to save their asses.
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