Posted on 11/06/2021 4:35:11 PM PDT by MtnClimber
House intelligence committee ranking member Devin Nunes and House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jim Jordan discuss several topics of concern in/around Washington DC including the recent indictment of Christopher Steele source Igor Danchenko. {Direct Rumble Link}
Within the conversation CTH readers get a good look at one of the problems we have discussed exclusively on these pages, the issue of the information silos. Both Nunes and Jordan discuss information from the perspective of their legislative silo, without standing back to consider the issues as they exist in the larger dynamic.
Ex. ¹Notice how both congressional advocates discuss Danchenko from the perspective of giving the FBI the source material (inside the dossier) to trigger the FISA surveillance authorities. Yet both miss the motive of why the FBI needed the FISA surveillance authority, to cover for pre-existing unlawful surveillance that was already taking place prior to October of 2016. WATCH:
(video at link)
Having spoken to staffers on these committees this is one of the more frustrating issues to accept. The silo effect, the outlook that only extends their investigation insofar as their legislative authority reaches, permits the Fourth Branch of Government to continue playing the legislative branch as fools.
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The entire conspiracy against Trump was known not long after his election. Only some details are now emerging. Why did the GOP not address it when they KNEW what happened?
Comey....Comey....Comey
Cool. I love it when the GOP talks about stuff.
Figure out who really rules, and I don't think it's the elected puppet actors.
The way the bureacracy is organized, the unelected have an easy path to rule. worst they get is a little bit of pubic humiliation. Small price for doing what you will.
Congress is a totally failed institution. It's a playground, vocation and retirement package for professional politicians - but it has driven the country into the ground. It couldn't fix things even if it wanted to. They'll flail all the way to the bank.
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The FBI knew in Dec 2016 that Danchenko was the sub-source. They knew he was A Russian asset. Danchenko told them the Dossier was inaccurate.
They didn’t care he was a Russian spy / asset or that he said it was BS, or that they knew he was trying to purchase unrelated Military Classidied data.
They needed his BS to get warrants on Trump and his peeps.
It was simply a vehicle to convince FISA.
They knew in 2006 he took documents into Russian embassy, they knew he wanted info on latest US Naval ships in 2009, and they knew was traveling to Russia.
They only needed him to get Surveillance on the Trump family and team, that’s why none of the above was included in the warrants.
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Danchenko also had a drinking problem.
Spy with a drinking problem. Strzok / Page / Comey somehow left that out of FISA application.
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Danchenko got his information that he provided to Steele— from a hillary operative.
The only point of giving the info to Danchenko was to wash out the source of the information.
Danchenko got his information that he provided to Steele— from a hillary operative.
The only point of giving the info to Danchenko was to wash out the source of the information.
Chris Wray needs to be fired. Trump was duped by someone into hiring him. He seems about as corrupt as the come, just like Comey. They should be in jail.
“Trump was duped by someone into hiring him.”
“Trust Wray!” Squeaked the Qballs
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First Rule of Big Club is never talk about Big Club.
Everything we see in the mainstream is encapsulated within a larger context which we have been largely blinded to by deception, from birth. Within that larger context there are alliances and constraints we are blind to as well. But now we are beginning to see the wall at the back of the theater.
Nothing to see here. This is just Durham continuing Barr’s coverup to restore the reputation of the FBI. Everything will be low level people lied to the FBI. No higher ups will be prosecuted and definitely no FBI types will be charged.
Thanks for posting!
Start by pressuring the GOP leadership to remove those GOP members who were involved in it.
Start with Graham and Liz and work your way down.
This is what I have:
BREAKING: FBI Arrests Source of Hillary’s Dirty Dossier
The primary source of the Steele Dossier which was funded through PerkinsCoie by Secretary of State Clinton has been arrested. His name is Igor Danchenko. He was the source for Christopher Steele for the entire dirty dossier that was spread through the main stream media. Starting at BuzzFeed News, through Jake Tapper, the entire media, John Brenner, all of them. This is what was used to smear the Trump campaign in 2016 and to launch an FBI investigation against him and his campaign. Which included FISA surveillance warrants and the use of confidential human sources, referred to as spies against the Trump campaign. This is what started it all. The man behind the source of the Steele Dossier which started all of Russia Gate was just arrested.
Are you paying attention yet?
Christopher Steele is hired by FusionGPS to write a dossier about Trump to dirty him up and make it look like he has Russian ties. Steele is a former high level operative MI6 agent. Steele is running a private intelligence agency in UK called Orbis.
Steele and Orbis contact Russian, Igor Danchenko and ask him to talk to Russians find out what he can about Trump. Danchenko talks to Russian intelligence assets and uses them as sources for dossier. All rumors, put together, and laundered through Steele, through FusionGPS, through PerkinsCoie and to the FBI.
When the FBI under Durham went to investigate, they asked Danchenko if he had connections with Russian intelligence to create the dossier. Danchenko lied, and said no.
Now, the real questions are, Who will Danchencko roll on? Who is the operative on Clinton campaign who set the entire dossier and champagned it through? That would be no other than Jake Sullivan. The Jake Sullivan currently in the Biden administration as the National Security Officer.
This Russian analyst, contributed to the dossier of Democratic-funded research into ties between Russia and Donald Trump, was indicted Thursday on charges of lying to the FBI about his sources of information.
The case against Igor Danchenko is part of special counsel John Durham’s ongoing investigation into the origins of the FBI’s probe into whether Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia had conspired to tip the outcome of that year’s presidential campaign.
The five-count indictment accuses Danchenko, a US-based Russia analyst, of making multiple false statements to the FBI during a 2017 interview about his role in collecting information for Christopher Steele, the former British spy who was paid by Democrats to investigate connections between Trump and Russia.
Danchenko functioned as a primary source for Steele, whose dossier of research was provided to the FBI and used by federal authorities as they applied for and received surveillance warrants targeting a former Trump campaign aide.
The indictment says Danchenko misled the FBI by denying a relationship with a public relations executive and long-time Democratic operative and supporter of Trump’s 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton, when he had in fact anonymously sourced one of his allegations to that person.
Danchenko also is accused of fabricating details of a phone conversation with someone who, he said, had described a “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The Trump Justice Department appointed Durham as Trump claimed the investigation of campaign ties to Russia was a witch hunt and pointed to the dossier, which to this date remains uncorroborated or discredited as evidence of a tainted probe driven by Democrats.
Supposedly, the dossier had no role in the launching of the Trump-Russia investigation. However, Special counsel Robert Mueller claimed questionable ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, yet did not yield sufficient evidence to pursue criminal charges. Democrats have continued to berate the Durham probe as politically motivated.
The Justice Department’s inspector general has faulted the FBI and the Justice Department for their handling of the dossier.
Danchenko, who was not identified by name, had told FBI investigators during a 2017 interview about the dossier’s origins and that there were “potentially serious problems with Steele’s descriptions of information in his reports”.
Danchenko claims of disingenuousness, were omitted from the final three surveillance applications. Thus, “the dossier appeared more credible than even one of its own sources thought it was”, according to the report from Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
Danchenko, has suggested that “the information he offered to Steele was not meant to be portrayed as indisputable fact”.
“Even raw intelligence from credible sources, I take it with a grain of salt,” Danchenko told The New York Times last year. “Who knows, what if it’s not particularly accurate? Is it just a rumour or is there more to it?”
It was not clear what charges Danchenko might face.
This would be the third criminal action brought by Durham. The September indictment of Michael Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer accused of making a false statement to the FBI during a 2016 meeting, and a guilty plea last year from an FBI lawyer who admitted altering an email related to the surveillance of the Trump aide, Carter Page.
Justice Department spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle has confirmed Danchenko’s arrest. A lawyer for Danchenko had no immediate comment.
Nothing to see here. This is just Durham continuing Barr’s coverup to restore the reputation of the FBI. Everything will be low level people lied to the FBI. No higher ups will be prosecuted and definitely no FBI types will be charged.
While I tend to agree with this assessment given that we're now five years into this coup, I'm not so sure. Remember, Durham has busted dirty FBI agents in the past, and is likely why Barr chose him and elevated him to Special Counsel before leaving town. Durham is onto a conspiracy based on the writings in the indictments that have been unsealed. What really has my attention now, is reports that he has hauled members of the Brooking Institute before a Grand Jury.
Chris Wray needs to be fired. Trump was duped by someone into hiring him.
I do believe that person is the Garden State dozen donuts slayer.
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