Techno Fog reports that a new filing by John Durham states that Igor Danchenko was an FBI paid confidential human source from March 2017 to October 2020.

So Christopher Steele was an FBI confidential human source while Steele wrote the dossier, and now the primary source of the dossier (Danchenko) was an FBI CHS Mar 2017 to Oct 2020.

Techno Fog is a lawyer who has tweeted extensively about the Russia collusion hoax pulled off by Steele with the aid of the FBI.

Every new discovery paints a more corrupt picture of the FBI

And also a reminder that now we know many of the lies that Danchenko provided were from Charles Dolan (A DEM with ties to the Clintons)

https://technofog.substack.com...danchenko-was-a-paid

Clintons - Dolan - Danchenko - Steele - FBI & News Media


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more Techno Fog:

The FBI caught Steele primary subsource Igor Danchenko in a number of lies.

What did the FBI do in response? It signed Danchenko up as a paid FBI confidential human source.


The purpose should be quite clear -
The FBI buries Danchenko from inquiry by making him a CHS.

In doing so, the FBI prevents discovery of its own misconduct. Utterly corrupt and self-serving.

Hans Mahncke:

The FBI is totally and irredeemably corrupt.

They did this *after* Danchenko had disavowed the dossier by admitting it was just bar talk and gossip . Danchenko had *zero* value as a CHS.

The *only* reason they made him a CHS was to CONCEAL THEIR OWN MALFEASANCE.

“A senior FBI official who investigated Donald Trump's alleged links to Russia is now under the microscope for his own Moscow ties, a bombshell new report revealed on Thursday.

Charles McGonigal is the former counterintelligence chief at the FBI's New York City field office.

He has not been charged with any crimes, Insider reports.

But if McGonigal's work with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska proves to have violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act, he could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine at most.

Deripaska, a close ally of Vladimir Putin's, was also a close contact of Trump 2016 campaign chair Paul Manafort and is thought to have played a leading role in the Kremlin's efforts to interfere in that presidential race…”

Full DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/11216085

Little that sdy hasn’t reported, but glad to see this in the MSM.

“Russiagate special counsel John Durham is in the homestretch. His grand jury wrapped up work last week, apparently with no new indictments on the horizon. Attorney General Merrick Garland is said to anticipate receiving his final report by the end of the year. And Durham is gearing up for his last trial: the prosecution of Igor Danchenko, the principal source for the discredited Steele dossier.

That last one should be grabbing our attention. We now know that the so-called dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele was a Clinton campaign production. It is one of the great dirty tricks in modern political history: The 2016 Democratic presidential campaign colluded with the incumbent Democratic administration’s law enforcement and intelligence apparatus [striving] to portray their partisan opposition, Donald Trump, as a Kremlin mole, then made the smear stick to the point of forcing Trump to govern for over two years under the cloud of a special-counsel investigation…”

Full NYPost article:
https://nypost.com/2022/09/18/...xposing-the-fbi/amp/

Letter firing Peter Strzok from the FBI

^^^^^^^^
The Douglas Factors (A new term to me.)
The following relevant factors must be considered in determining the severity of the discipline:
<snip>
Twelve are listed in this link to a PDF.

https://www.opm.gov/policy-dat.../douglas-factors.pdf

Danchenko's trial has started

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11...danchenko/index.html

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.

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and we never heard this until six years later

Perhaps the most corrupt and damaging actions the FBI ever performed

quote:

Originally posted by sdy:
Danchenko's trial has started

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11...danchenko/index.html

SDY, I noticed this in the linked story:

"Auten confirmed what has been known for many years: the probe was launched after the US government got intelligence from a friendly country that a Trump campaign aide had bragged to one of its diplomats that the Russians had offered to help Trump beat Hillary Clinton."

Who could this aide be or is this CNN BS? It reads like typical CNN BS.

JP

I believe the "Trump Campaign Aide" was Carter Page and the "foreign diplomat" was Australia’s top diplomat in Britain Alexander Downer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...ge-papadopoulos.html

quote:

"Auten confirmed what has been known for many years: the probe was launched after the US government got intelligence from a friendly country that a Trump campaign aide had bragged to one of its diplomats that the Russians had offered to help Trump beat Hillary Clinton."

This is BS, but it is FBI BS

Foreign country person was Australia's Alexander Downer

Trump aide was Geo Papadopoulos

The whole story is absurd. The FBI with their Confidential Human Sources were setting up Trump all summer of 2016. Sources such as Christopher Steele (he was an FBI CHS when he wrote the dossier) and Stefan Halper.

Downer had in years prior to 2016 arranged $25 million from Australia to the Clinton Foundation.

The FBI was first briefed on the Steele Dossier effort on 5 July 2016 by Christopher Steele himself.

I’m going to go sharpen my woodworking tools.

I think there may be a new market for gallows and guillotines. What was the missing component? Rope?

Re: “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.”

Who, in the FBI, or above, authorised that “up to $1 million” payment? That ain’t chicken feed.

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^^ that one ($1,000,000) goes all the way to the top…

will summarize some key points from Auten testimony. Yet again, the FBI looks worse & worse. Never thought this long thread would go down this ugly path so far, w so little accountability.

Organization of Crossfire Hurricane:

agents under Joe Pientka. He reported to Peter Strzok. Strzok to Bill Priestap

analysts under Auten. He reported to Jonathan Moffa. Moffa reported to Bill Priestap

Priestap reported to Andrew McCabe. McCabe to James Comey

Remember Strzok was working w Lisa Page and jumping around the chain of command right to McCabe

The ongoing investigation was being reported up to Comey

According to Auten the "full investigation" was triggered by the Downer info ( my feelings - this was all an elaborate fabrication from beginning to end )

FBI tried to put together a FISA warrant on Carter Page, but couldn't get one.

They used the Steele dossier to get the FISA warrant.

Were you able to confirm or corroborate thru FBI systems any of the Steele reports up thru the first warrant? No

Could any intel agencies confirm any of the Steele reports? No

When you met w Steele in Oct 2016, did he provide any corroborative info? No

Steele was offered up to a million dollars to prove the allegations. "He did not"

At any time after the October meeting, did Steele provide any corroborative info? No

Steele cited Sergei Millian as one of the sources (esp the pee tape). Turns out at one time Millian was an FBI CHS

The FBI opened up an investigation into Millian. Did he assist in the interference w the 2016 election ? No

Were any of the dossier claims about info from Millian submitted in the FISA warrants ? Yes

Millian never gave any info to Danchenko or Steele

Auten and others made more trips oversea to to talk to Steele. Steele never gave any corroborative info.

video at

https://twitter.com/i/status/1580037960954974209

This is what the FBI says triggered a "full investigation" into the Republican Presidential Candidate by the opposition party administration


"Papadopoulos literally repeated what Andrew Napolitano had said on Fox News the night before."

that is true. I looked it up

I wouldn’t be surprised if Danchenko is (secretly) offered a huge bribe to enter a guilty plea in order to get highly-damming business out of the news. Damning to the libs and the FBI. Well, one and the same nowadays.

Danchenko was the primary source of the dossier. All of that info was a lie. fabricated.

Danchenko became a FBI CHS in Mar 2017

As a FBI CHS, Danchenko was paid $ 219,000 by the FBI.

After Danchenko was ended as a source, his FBI handler (Kevin Helson) requested that the FBI give Danchenko an additional $346,000

The $346,000 was not approved.

Danchenko, the person who fed Steele almost all of the lies in the dossier, and his FBI handler wanted to give him $565,000 of tax payer money.

There is more stuff that is even more damaging to the FBI. I'm getting tired of writing it

one of the sources for info on Danchenko trial


https://technofog.substack.com...anchenko-trial-day-3

Kevin Helson (FBI handler for Danchenko):

Q: Did Danchenko ever provide any corroborating info of allegations in the dossier ?

Helson : No


Durham asked Helson about the Dossier being used in the Carter Page FISA warrant, and Helson’s 2017 conclusion that it was bunk


Q: And who is it that is saying in there (As read): "Right, because it's not others, no legally -- there's no attorney that's ever going to put that on as evidence anyway."?

Helson: Yeah, that was me

Q. But do you know, sir, now, whether or not the uncorroborated information concerning a well coordinated conspiracy of cooperation portion out of 95, was that used in a legal document?

A. I understand that it -- I think it was used or cited in a FISA application.

Q. And that was against an American citizen, correct?

A. I believe that was -- yes.

Q. And it was completely unvetted?

A. Yes.

Q. Did they make a specific recommendation to you that the Bureau behavioral assessment group conduct an examination to determine what Mr. Danchenko's actual motives, allegiances and vulnerabilities were?

A. Yes.

Q. And did you do that?

A. No.

Q. Were you -- was it recommended that you do an assessment or to look at the financial nature of Mr. Danchenko's employment because of the concern that he may be prone to shopping around his information in search of work and pre-composing reporting containing unsolicited material, which may indicate the FBI is not the primary audience for his information?

A. Yeah, I saw that in the report.

Q. Did you do that?

A. No.

Q. Was it recommended that the Washington Field Office determine whether Mr. Danchenko committed any unauthorized illegal activity for the apparent falsehoods and inaccuracies contained in his visa and immigration documents?

A. Yes, they recommended that.

Q. Did you do that?

A. No.

Q. Did they specifically recommend to the Washington Field Office and you that you considered administering a polygraph of Mr. Danchenko to determine if he has ever been tasked by a foreign individual, entity or government to collect information or to perform actions adverse to the U.S. interest?

A. They recommended that, yes.

Q. Did you do that?

A. No.

Helson had disagreed with the recommendation to look further into Danchenko’s ties to Russian intelligence. This recommendation came from an analyst who spent 19 years as an army counterintelligence officer in Europe.

"This is the second day in a row that Durham has basically treated the FBI Agents/Analysts as hostile witnesses . First it was Auten, now it was Helson. It’s just not about the incompetence and their basic investigative failures.

It’s also that these FBI Agents and Analysts come across as arrogant, at least from my reading of the transcripts, and continue to hold themselves essentially blameless. All the while, they have at times defended Igor Danchenko, the witness who didn’t tell them the truth. It’s not a good look for the Bureau."

It's all well and good this is being exposed but I want to see people paying for their deeds. With the statute of limitations running out, the odds are slim which is very disappointing.

anyone remember when Robert Mueller testified to congress, and he was asked about the Steele dossier ?

video at

https://twitter.com/i/status/1581440461331648512

Mueller said the Steele Dossier wasn't in his "purview."

But in the Dancheko trial, two FBI analysts of Mueller's team have testified they were trying to corroborate the dossier. And they got interested in following up on Charles Dolan.

The Mueller team higher ups would not let them pursue Dolan.

Dolan was the real source of the lies to Danchenko. Dolan is a Clinton crony.