“””where he struck up a friendship with Fiona Hill, the White House adviser who testified against Trump during last year’s impeachment hearings. Danchenko has described Hill as a mentor, while Hill has sung his praises as a “creative” researcher. “””””””
Another member of the coup.
The people in this mess demonstrate the political incest that pervades the swamp, between bureaucrats, “think tanks” and top congressional staffers, where employment is permanent as they merely rotate over the years between those three sorts of venues and one hand keeps washing the other for power and influence over policy.
Forget the sub-source. The primary source was Strobe Talbot.
I’d bet money on it.
This Danchenko stooge was ID’d a few days ago on Twitter. He’s probably hiding out with Mifsud right about now.
Article notes some interesting coincidences.
Strobe Talbott was Bill Clinton’s college pal and ambassador to Moscow. By coincidence, Talbott, was head of Brookings during this period, met with Steele, and even passed along a copy of Steele’s “dossier” to Fiona Hill.
Also by pure coincidence, Cody Shearer, a Clinton dirty trickster reputed to be nastier than Sidney Blumenthal, is Strobe Talbott’s brother in law. Also by coincidence, Shearer pushed his own version of an anti-Trump “dossier”, and Steele even tried to use it a corroboration of his own trash.
“Igor “Iggy” Danchenko, a Russian national”
Names like Danchenko that end in “-chenko” are Ukrainian.
Certainly lots of Russian nationals have Ukrainian names, and perhaps this guy has no connections to Ukrainians. But given the outsized Ukrainian connection with much of the “Dossier”, it makes me wonder.