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Key Steele dossier source acquitted of lying to FBI charges
axios ^ | Oct 18, 2022 | Jacob Knutson

Posted on 10/18/2022 6:12:36 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder

A jury acquitted Igor Danchenko, an analyst hired to compile parts of the Steele dossier that alleged ties between Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Russia, of charges of lying to the FBI on Tuesday.

Why it matters: It is a major blow to special counsel John Durham's multi-year investigation into the origins of the Russia probe and possible misconduct by U.S. law enforcement.

Danchenko was the third person charged, and subsequently indicted, in the investigation. This trial is expected to be the last stemming from Durham’s investigation before it is concluded.

The jury began deliberating on whether to convict or acquit Danchenko on Monday.

Context: Danchenko was charged with five counts of lying to the FBI in November 2021, though a judge later dropped one of the counts, saying the specific charge wasn’t strong enough to go before the jury, according to the Washington Post.

(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; axios; christophersteele; danchenko; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; durham; igordanchenko; jacobknutson; johndurham; russia; seebreakingnews; steele; steeledossier; unitedkingdom
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At the moment, I'm not sure what to make of this. DC Jury? DOJ can't produce a convincing case? A Kabuki event designed to further confuse any meaningful investigation into conduct by the FBI?
1 posted on 10/18/2022 6:12:36 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Pure politics by the jury.


2 posted on 10/18/2022 6:13:56 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Williams

“Pure politics by the jury.”

That’s what I think. Jury nullification.


3 posted on 10/18/2022 6:15:30 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
If you followed the trial, the point of Durham trying Danchenko wasn't to get a conviction, but to get all of the FBI malfeasance on the record.

Things like the FBI offering $1 million to Steele if he could prove the dossier was genuine, or that Danchenko was on the FBI payroll as a confidential informant, or that Danchenko's FBI handlers never vetted any of the information in the dossier with Danchenko, but still used the dossier as justification for a FISA warrant against Carter Page by extension Donald Trump, plus THREE renewal extensions of the FISA warrant.

4 posted on 10/18/2022 6:16:09 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

What if this was all an elaborate plot by the Russians to discredit the FBI?

(just a joke folks)


5 posted on 10/18/2022 6:18:55 PM PDT by GMMC0987
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

If the FIB is free to lie to you, why is it illegal to lie to them?

[They are no paragons of virtue in any way these days anyhow.]


6 posted on 10/18/2022 6:19:40 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

This country is in deep Kimchi. The national government crime syndicate is running this banana republic chicken coup. These courts need to at least require a double digit I.Q. to be on the jury. No picking your nose or scratching your ass allowed.


7 posted on 10/18/2022 6:19:49 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Veto Beto, FJB.)
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To: ought-six

Jury members are not going to make the FBI or DOJ look bad. There are consequences.


8 posted on 10/18/2022 6:20:13 PM PDT by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder


NO RAIDS

All Central parties avoided in Prosecution

Years go by, run out the clock prosecution designed to lose interest and allow witnesses to have fuzzy memories



Durham is what his record says he is - a Deep State Democrat


9 posted on 10/18/2022 6:21:46 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: blackdog

“Jury members are not going to make the FBI or DOJ look bad. There are consequences.”

Exactly.


10 posted on 10/18/2022 6:22:50 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Unfortunately, the left controls all the courts inside the beltway. Same for NY.


11 posted on 10/18/2022 6:23:11 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Win some, lose some. Durham didn’t amount to much.


12 posted on 10/18/2022 6:24:20 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Justice in D.C.?

Bwahahahahahahahahaha.


13 posted on 10/18/2022 6:24:50 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

The jury may have concluded that the FBI was as involved in pushing the Steele Dossier as Danchenko was.

It would be hard to convict Danchenko of lying to the FBI if the FBI was party to the same conspiracy he was involved with.

Without hearing the jurors interviewed it’s all a guess as to what their reasoning was.


14 posted on 10/18/2022 6:26:54 PM PDT by Pelham (World War III will be fought with nuclear weapons. World War IV will be fought with rocks & sticks.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Durham isn’t going to get any convictions out of East Coast democrat partisans.

It won’t happen...... but put Roger Stone or Steve Bannon in front of those same juries:

“Guilty” we didn’t need to see the evidence.

Our law system is a joke.


15 posted on 10/18/2022 6:27:08 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Every agent involved in Crossfire Hurricane is guilty of conspiracy to commit treason, which is a capital crime. There should be consequences for manufacturing and presenting false evidence. Trump was nearly removed from office twice on thinner charges.


16 posted on 10/18/2022 6:32:10 PM PDT by Spok (Homelessness will not be solved by incentivizing it; it must be made harder, not easier.)
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To: boycott
A few years ago I talked to a good doctor who was being sued by an ambulance chaser. He was being sued in the District of Columbia even though he practiced medicine in Virginia. He had no ties at all to the District of Columbia except that one of his suppliers was based there. The plaintiff got the case moved to DC because of that.

The Doctor told me that lawyers will use any trick to get a case moved to DC because they know the jurors are little better than illiterate children who have an ax to grind against "the man".

The "Color" of Justice.

17 posted on 10/18/2022 6:32:15 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Paladin2

Wonder what Gen Flynn has to say


18 posted on 10/18/2022 6:33:49 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop ("There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration” - Pompeo)
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To: GMMC0987

Quote:

What if this was all an elaborate plot by the Russians to discredit the FBI?

(just a joke folks)

_______________________

Actually....it’s another accomplishment of the communists 45 planks:

#35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.


19 posted on 10/18/2022 6:34:33 PM PDT by patriot torch
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To: blackdog

Jury members are not going to make the FBI or DOJ look bad. There are consequences.


Bingo . they know their names, and probably how they voted and have long memories.


20 posted on 10/18/2022 6:38:13 PM PDT by patriotspride (Third generation Vet. Never forget the true cost of freedom)
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