Posted on 11/04/2021 7:41:47 PM PDT by bitt
The mysterious “Primary Subsource” that Christopher Steele has long hidden behind to defend his discredited Trump-Russia dossier is a former Brookings Institution analyst -- Igor “Iggy” Danchenko, a Russian national whose past includes criminal convictions and other personal baggage ignored by the FBI in vetting him and the information he fed to Steele, according to congressional sources and records obtained by RealClearInvestigations. Agents continued to use the dossier as grounds to investigate President Trump and put his advisers under counter-espionage surveillance.
The 42-year-old Danchenko, who was hired by Steele in 2016 to deploy a network of sources to dig up dirt on Trump and Russia for the Hillary Clinton campaign, was arrested, jailed and convicted years earlier on multiple public drunkenness and disorderly conduct charges in the Washington area and ordered to undergo substance-abuse and mental-health counseling, according to criminal records.
In an odd twist, a 2013 federal case against Danchenko was prosecuted by then-U.S Attorney Rod Rosenstein, who ended up signing one of the FBI’s dossier-based wiretap warrants as deputy attorney general in 2017.
Danchenko first ran into trouble with the law as he began working for Brookings — the preeminent Democratic think tank in Washington — 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.
Hill is also close to his boss Steele, who she’d known since 2006. She met with the former British intelligence officer during the 2016 campaign and later received a raw, unpublished copy of the now-debunked dossier.
It does not appear the FBI asked Danchenko about his criminal past or state of sobriety when agents interviewed him in January 2017 in a failed attempt to verify the accuracy of the dossier, which the bureau did only after agents used it to obtain a warrant to surveil Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The opposition research was farmed out by Steele, working for Clinton's campaign, to Danchenko, who was paid for the information he provided.
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By June of 2017 everyone in DC knew that Russia, Russia, Russia was a Hillary hoax and yet the GOP assisted the Democrats to keep it going.
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Danchenko is expendable.
How about Bruce Ohr, his spy wife, Strzok, Page, Comey, Yates, McCabe, Somma, Lynch, Jonathan Moffa, and Stephen Halper?
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bkmk
thought the Durham/Danchenko story would be posted dozens of times today on FR, but this is the most recent I have found.
BBC had Fiona Hill on Hardtalk half-hour yesterday, but I didn’t listen, but have included the link below:
5 Nov: Tweet: Jack Posobiec
BREAKING: Trump impeachment witness Fiona Hill implicated in criminal Steele Dossier operation
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1456310543283851265
no doubt providing cover:
4 Nov: BBC Hardtalk: Fiona Hill: What did Trump mean for America and the world?
HARDtalk
The Trump Presidency challenged many public officials to make a choice: obey directives from the White House against their better judgment, or take a stand and face the wrath of the pro-Trump movement. Fiona Hill, a former Russia adviser at the White House, took a stand. She was a key witness in Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial, and has since had time to reflect on what his presidency meant for America and its geopolitical standing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1nc3
Clinton campaign>Perkins Coie>Fusion GPS>Christopher Steele>Igor Danchenko.
Maybe we’re headed there; maybe not.
Maybe we’re headed there; maybe not.
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