Durham probe: FBI offered Christopher Steele $1 million to corroborate Trump allegations in dossier

testified to who?
what judicial authority is not corrupted?
who will convict?

One million in TAXPAYER money.

A drop in the bucket for these tyrants. In any case they should be drawn and quartered.

“ The stench of corruption is becoming so great that those paying attention to this can only grow more alarmed. I suspect the mainstream media and “justice” Democrats will simply not report it and hope this will fade away in a week”

You are correct. The disinformation media will probably not report it at all. We should stop calling them “mainstream,” their preferred title.

couple interesting excerpts from the piece for discussion purposes only:

“Auten repeatedly admitted under questioning from Durham that the FBI never received corroboration of the information in the Steele dossier, but he stressed that it was used in the initial FISA application and in the three subsequent renewals.”

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“The Justice Department admitted in 2020 that the FISA warrants to surveil Page, when stripped of the FBI’s misinformation, did not meet the necessary legal threshold and never should have been issued.”

“the FBI did.” Yeah, we need a name on that offer. Who the bleep actually authorized a bribe like that?. And it would be a bribe. When it comes to Steele it was noted early on that he disliked Trump. He’s a Brit supposedly retired. So what was his axe to grind with Trump. It has to be more than money motivating Steele. Seems he is/was afraid of something? Maybe Bonnie Prince Charlie knows?

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yup need that name

(where’s the line item in the fibber’s budget to account for this?)

Compromised, corrupt, and infiltrated....

bookmark here too...

I’d guess if he didn’t produce, he likely didn’t get the million.

2 things from this...’They knew that dossier was fake and wanted it sewed up for them.

Why did the fbi want Trump out... charged and gone?

I hope the Durham probe can wrap up with indictments before the suspects start passing away due to old age.

Naw, there are some good people there. They just got shouted or threatened down. What they need is to really wash and sanitize that place down.

Knowing all this, how In blazes could a judge dismiss Carter Page’s legal suit against the government?

I hope Page appeals and appeals all the way to the Supremes.

Can Trump sue the FBI for $1 Billion?

Why did the fbi want Trump out... charged and gone?

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how bout they knew Trump would put um in jail

Knowing all this, how In blazes could a judge dismiss Carter Page’s legal suit against the government?

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IDK, but I think I’ve read that page was also a confidential human source of some kind for the Clowns In Action at one time in his career.

so they prolly don’t want anything like this to get to discovery in court???

seems like bout everybody in on the russia russia russia steele dossier was a spook from one agency or another??

During Trial Senior FBI Analyst Admits Agency Offered Dossier Author Chris Steele Up to One Million Dollars to Prove Authenticity of Claims

October 12, 2022 | Sundance | 181 Comments

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.

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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.

“The FBI has money to throw around for a payoff?”

Probably borrowed it from the CIA Black Budget

They paid him to make something up if he had to.

That's what I was thinking. The FBI offered Steele a one million dollars incentive to fabricate evidence.

I knew Bill and hill were corrupt.. and had a list of those unfortunate ones. Bill lived as he wanted, knowing nothing would be done to him. Hill became part of the package.. she too had no conscience.

This corrupt gov has been going on for years. It must have been a case for new arrivals, to join or get nothing.

I know they don’t like Trump.. but their reasons run from a to z.
It could be the simplest excuse, or world domination. He came in full of promise, and was received like 3 popular 12 - 16 yr old girls eyeing competition.. Washington hated Trump.

Hillary was one after him.. she wanted to ne president and he insulted her in the debate. I don’t think anyone did that and not pay.

But for all of the gov to be so corrupt.. there is nothing good in it. Those people had no conscience to begin with.. and there was nothing to stop it

No one has been held accountable since they let hill off the hook. There are no safe guards any more. It may come down to the people out here.. and not sure the will is in it.
I have been in disbelief the dems had any sense putting a man in who knows not where he is. I know they’re thinking.. but it won’t turn out like they want.

Pictures are being showed from the laptop..of Joe’s son.... hes a sicko.. and Joe’s millions are in there.

The justice dept have let so much go...and our nation is paying a price

“The FBI offered ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele $1 million to corroborate salacious allegations made in his dossier against Donald Trump...”

Wasn’t the dossier’s PRICE TAG TO THE FBI $1 million?