On
November 3, 2021, Special Counsel Durham indicted Christopher Steele’s primary
sub-source, Igor Danchenko on five counts of lying to the FBI.
He
lied about his contacts and the identity of his sources.
One
of the more serious lies was about Sergei Millian.
The
indictment shows that
Danchenko alleged a phone call occurred between him and Millian about a Trump-Russia
conspiracy.
That
call was part of the basis the FBI used to get a FISA warrant on Carter Page.
According
to Durham, Steele’s source lied about the call – it never happened.
This
is yet another stunning fatal defect against the Obama-Biden administration’s
fake predicate to investigate Trump.
Specifically,
yet another illustration of Justice Department and FBI failure.
As
a result of these failures, this country has been dragged through the mud for
years.
That
statement is well-understood at this point, but I’ll explain further.
The
indictment also shows that one of Steele’s sources was a “long-time participant
in Democratic Party politics” and that he “fabricated” at least some of the
information that he gave to Danchenko.
This
source, identified as Charles Dolan, “actively campaigned and participated in
calls and events as a volunteer on behalf of Hillary Clinton” during the 2016
election.
Another
one of Danchenko’s sources was also a Hillary Clinton supporter.
Charles
Dolan gifted to this particular Russian sub-source an autobiography of Hillary
Clinton signed with “To my good friend, a great Democrat.”
While
the Democrats were smearing Trump with false Russia allegations, they were the
ones rubbing elbows with Russians and spreading false information in the media.
Of course, the media gladly ran with it.
For
example, President Biden’s current National Security Advisor – Jake Sullivan –
promoted the false story about the Russian bank, called Alfa Bank,
communicating with the Trump Organization when he worked for the Clinton
campaign.
Notably,
during congressional testimony several years ago, Sullivan said he wasn’t sure
who Marc Elias represented when he presented Trump opposition research to the
campaign.
For
crying out loud, Elias was the Clinton campaign’s general counsel.
Last
Congress, Senator Johnson and I obtained many records relating to Crossfire
Hurricane.
We
were able to get many of them declassified for the public.
Some
of the declassified records showed that the FBI had reports in hand that showed
the Steele Dossier was most likely tainted with Russian disinformation.
One
document indicates that the FBI received a U.S. intelligence report on January
12, 2017, warning of an inaccuracy in the dossier related to Michael Cohen.
The
report assessed that the material was “part of a Russian disinformation
campaign to denigrate U.S. foreign relations.”
That
same day, the FISA warrant against Page was renewed for the first time by
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates. This is when the Obama-Biden
administration and Justice Department are still in charge.
A
similar U.S. intelligence
report
arrived on February 27, 2017, undercutting a key allegation against Trump. The
report noted claims about Trump’s travel to Moscow in 2013 “were false, and
that they were the product of Russian Intelligence Services infiltrat[ing] a
source into the network” of sources that contributed to the dossier.
Just
over a month later, the FISA warrant against Page was renewed a second time.
I’d
be remiss if I didn’t mention that the FBI also opened a counterintelligence
case on Danchenko but failed to tell the FISA court.
If
this fact pattern was a movie script, nobody would believe it.
With
Durham’s recent indictments, we now have even more proof that the Trump-Russia
collusion investigation had the wrong name; it should’ve been the Clinton-DNC-Russia
collusion investigation.
The
media and many members in the Democratic Party ought to be ashamed of the
falsehoods they’ve spread all these years.
They’ve
damaged our political discourse for decades to come.
Recently,
the Washington Post had to correct over a dozen articles relating to its
previous Russia reporting in light of the extensive errors made.
Years
of errors, I might add.
Simply
unprecedented.
As
Durham proceeds, I’d say this: don’t take your eye off government misconduct. The
Justice Department and FBI hid critical information from the FISA court that
would’ve cut against their case. They failed to correct the court record when
they should’ve.
Simply
put, the Justice Department and FBI misrepresented information to the court.
