Loss of Steele Dossier Source Damaged National Security, F.B.I. Agent Testifies

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“A veteran F.B.I. counterintel agent testified…that the Trump Justice Department’s decision in 2020 to release sensitive documents about a bureau informant to a Senate committee examining the bureau’s Russia investigation had damaged national security.”
Igor Danchenko faces five counts of making false statements to the F.B.I. in the special counsel investigation led by John H. Durham.
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Loss of Steele Dossier Source Damaged National Security, F.B.I. Agent Testifies
The agent denounced the exposure by the Trump Justice Department of Igor Danchenko, who was an F.B.I. informant but is now on trial on charges of lying to investigators.
5:19 AM · Oct 14, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/us/politics/steele-dossier-national-security-fbi.html

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A veteran F.B.I. counterintelligence agent testified on Thursday that the Trump Justice Department’s decision in 2020 to release sensitive documents about a bureau informant to a Senate committee examining the bureau’s Russia investigation had damaged national security.

The agent told jurors at the trial of Igor Danchenko, who is charged with lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation about matters related to the anti-Trump Steele dossier, that Mr. Danchenko, a Russia analyst, had provided extraordinary assistance for years as a paid F.B.I. informant.

Internet sleuths managed to piece together Mr. Danchenko’s identity after Attorney General William P. Barr directed the F.B.I. to declassify a redacted report about its three-day interview of Mr. Danchenko in 2017 and give it to Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time.

Kevin Helson, the agent, said Mr. Danchenko became a political target, adding that the “release of the document was dangerous.”

The testimony by Mr. Helson, a witness for the prosecution, seemed to be another setback for the special counsel investigation examining the origins of the F.B.I. inquiry into former President Donald J. Trump’s ties with Russia. The trial of Mr. Danchenko appears to be the last chance for the special counsel, John H. Durham, who Mr. Trump had said would expose a “deep state” conspiracy against him, to obtain a court conviction before his investigation winds down.

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[Kid Berwyn]

1. Leningrad Lindsey

Seems the enemy within wears their patriotism on their sleeves, just like a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

[Me.]

2. And There You Have It

The damage magas would do for tfg 's sake

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Why did it take this long to reveal it?

Maybe if this kind of information was revealed earlier, Trump wouldn't have snared in so many down his rabbit hole.

[bahboo]

4. and yet many in he FBI supported the orange fuck...

mind boggling...