Igor Danchenko, source for Steele dossier, arrested as part of Durham probe

[former9thward]

Source: Washington Post

An analyst who was a primary source for a 2016 dossier of allegations against Donald Trump has been arrested on charges that he repeatedly lied to the FBI about where and how he got his information, officials said Thursday.

Igor Danchenko’s role in providing information to British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who compiled the accusations about Trump in a series of reports, has long been a subject of investigators’ scrutiny and became a particular focus of special counsel John Durham.

Steele presented the dossier to the FBI, and it became part of the basis for secret surveillance court orders targeting former Trump adviser Carter Page as the FBI investigated possible ties between the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and Russia.

Durham’s probe into that FBI investigation has also led to an indictment of a lawyer connected to Democrats, on a charge that he lied to the FBI. In addition, a former FBI lawyer who worked on the Page surveillance application later pleaded guilty to altering an email related to that case.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/steele-dossier-arrest-danchenko-trump-durham/2021/11/04/7e76b9ae-3d77-11ec-8ee9-4f14a26749d1_story.html?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert&wpmk=1&wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics--alert-national&pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.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.TSXoLAwc4OySjiTEpDdUymaN6BjDKRQLiVEIiGz7mpA

[dem4decades]

1. The Trump DOJ still causing havoc and Garland is doing what?

Can we either hold someone's feet to the fire or just announce it was all nothing?

[BlueIdaho]

2. So they are not charging him on the facts he delivered

Only possibly lying about his sources? Remind me again why Durham hasn’t been shut down yet?

[Ghost Dog]

8. Said facts were, apparently, unsupported,

or in other words, not in fact facts, and relevant parties knew it. That's the problem.

[BlueIdaho]

9. Thank you!

[Ghost Dog]

10. Just trying to help!

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Trump lied to Mueller and America. Why isn't he under arrest?

No collusion.
No business.
No nothing with Russia.

And none of your business what he talked over in secret 1-on-1 meetings with Putin.

[Wuddles440]

4. And yet..

nothing's been done by the DOJ regarding Bannon! It's time to pull the plug on the Barr/Durham "probe" and investigate actual corruption and criminal acts.

[cadoman]

5. well, the upside is you see how long it takes the DoJ to get around to investigating these things

The events related to this arrest took place over four years ago so Bannon may be arrested sometime in 2025.

[CBHagman]

6. The referral for Bannon went to the U.S. attorney's office in D.C.

Here's a bit on how that works.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/22/politics/steve-bannon-contempt-what-next/index.html

The DC US Attorney's office received the referral via a courier Thursday night. It could decline to charge Bannon, charge him quickly, or use a grand jury to investigate and indict the longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump.

There's no strict timeline for how much time the Justice Department will take in deciding whether to move forward with the prosecution. And it's not absolute that Bannon will be charged.

[SNIP]

Typically, the office's public integrity section of the DC US Attorney's office handles congressional contempt allegations and other referrals.

There's more at the link.

[Ghost Dog]

7. Unfortunately, the wapo article continues...

... The indictment also suggests Danchenko may have lied to Steele and others about where he was getting his information. Some of the material came from a Democratic Party operative with long-standing ties to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, according to the charges, rather than well-connected Russians with insight into the Kremlin.... The indictment does not identify that individual, but it is Charles Dolan Jr., according to Ralph Martin, a lawyer representing Dolan. Martin said in an email Thursday that his client was a witness in the case; he declined to comment further, and a spokesman for Durham declined to comment on the claim that Dolan is a witness.
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The indictment charges that in fact, Danchenko used Dolan as a source for some of the dossier’s allegations...