Silence from the major media is greeting the trial of Igor Danchenko, the alleged main source in the bogus Trump-Russia dossier authored by ex-British spy Christopher Steele.
The trial, scheduled to begin on October 11, is the result of special counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
One man who is paying close attention is Kash Patel, who served in the Trump White House as Senior Director of Counterterrorism on the National Security Council and later as Deputy Director of National Intelligence.
Having earlier served as a key investigator for Republican Rep. Devin Nunes in unraveling the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, Patel described himself as stunned by new information that has come out of the D.
The filings by Durham are a revelation “even to a guy like me,” Patel said in an interview with conservative podcaster Dinesh D’Souza. “I’m learning four or five years later a whole swath of new information”.
For example, Danchenko was hired by the FBI just one month after the bureau had fired Steele, he noted.To begin with, Danchenko told the FBI that what he told Steele was ‘barroom banter’ Patel said. “He made it up and gave it to him over beer in a tavern. But the FBI went with it anyway.”
“Here’s the part that floored me”, Patel said.
After we showed Christopher Steele to have lied about his involvement and the FBI fired him, the next month (and I’m talking about wind the clock back to 2017) … the FBI goes and hires Danchenko to be a confidential human source. And that is just some of the most outrageous conduct I have ever heard of. They did it for one reason. They knew the Danchenko material to Steele was bogus, they … kept Danchenko on the FBI payroll for three years. as a confdential human source and they did it for one reason.
Patel explained: With Danchenko as a confidential human source, the FBI could say they could not jeopardize “our sources and methods” and would not even tell Congress about the investigation.
The charges against Danchenko stem from false statements he gave the FBI during multiple interviews from January 2017 through November 2017 and “might answer an important question: Whether the Clinton campaign directed or controlled Danchenko’s activities,” the Oct. 6 Techno Fog blog noted.
FBI paid confidential source for ‘Russian disinformation’
In a September 2022 court filling, Special Prosecutor John Durham revealed that the primary source for Christopher Steele’s bogus Trump-Russia dossier, Igor Danchenko, had been a paid FBI confidential human source (CHS).
Danchenko was on the FBI payroll for three years despite prior concerns he was tied to Russian intelligence services. He was terminated as a CHS for the bureau in October 2020.
“Danchenko is the originator of the false claim trumpeted all over global media that Donald Trump told prostitutes to pee on beds the Obamas had slept in in a Russian hotel”, The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland noted.
“Simply put”, Cleveland noted, “our federal government paid for Russian disinformation to frame the President of the United States for colluding with Russia. The FBI did this knowing that Danchenko ‘was associate of two FBI counterintelligence subjects’; ‘had previous contact with the Russian Embassy and known Russian intelligence officers’; ‘had also informed one Russian intelligence officer that he had interest in entering the Russian diplomatic service’; and, according to a think-tank employee, suggested he had contacts willing to purchase classified information”.
The FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team “continued to use Danchenko as a paid CHS even knowing his stories were fabrications. In fact, Mueller’s team was so focused on getting Trump, it completely ignored whether the Steele dossier included Russian disinformation,” Cleveland noted.
Trump said in a post on Truth Social following Durham’s filing: “FBI working with Russia to get Trump. If this were reversed, it would be the biggest story in 50 years. The Fake News Media does everything possible not to cover it – but the people know!”
When the Steele dossier was released, “the media picked-up on the most salacious rumors, one that was utterly unbelievable: that Russian intelligence had a video of Trump involved with prostitutes at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Also known as the ‘pee tape,’ ” the September 13 Techno Fog report on substack.com noted.
“The allegation came from Danchenko, who attributed it to his sources — one from the Ritz-Carlton, and another being Sergei Millian. Durham will refute it, as it expects to call at trial ‘Bernd Kuhlen,’ the then-general manager of the Ritz-Carlton, who will deny speaking with or ever meeting Danchenko ‘in June 2016, or at any time’”.
Durham’s court filings also have revealed that Hillary Clinton also paid for Russian disinformation on Trump.
“The public already knew from Durham’s (failed) prosecution of Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann that the campaign paid Fusion GPS for opposition research. Fusion in turn hired Steele to dig up dirt on Trump”, Cleveland noted. “That trial also revealed that Clinton personally approved pushing a smaller aspect of the Russia-collusion hoax, namely the Alfa-Bank secret communications hoax”.
