Arrest illustrates how the Steele dossier was a political dirty trick orchestrated by Hillary Clinton

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

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Special counsel John Durham’s indictment of Igor Danchenko, the principal
source for the bogus Steele dossier used by the FBI as a basis for the
Trump-Russia investigation, further illustrates that Durham has his sights
set on the Clinton campaign.

Danchenko has been charged with five counts of lying to the FBI in
interviews during 2017, as the bureau struggled in futility to verify
outlandish allegations that Donald Trump and his campaign were clandestine
agents of the Kremlin. Those allegations were compiled in the so-called
Steele dossier, which the FBI relied on in obtaining surveillance warrants
from a secret federal court.

The dossier was generated by the Clinton campaign. Its principal author
was former British spy Christopher Steele. Steele’s main source was
Danchenko, a Russian native based in the United States who worked at the
Brookings Institution — a Washington think-tank whose former president,
Strobe Talbott, is a college friend of Bill Clinton’s who worked in the
Clinton State Department.

At Brookings, Danchenko worked with Fiona Hill, later a member of Trump’s
National Security Council (and a key witness in the first Trump
impeachment over the unrelated Ukraine controversy). It was through Hill
that Danchenko became acquainted with Steele, who ran a London-based
intelligence firm upon leaving MI-6, the British spy service.

Durham’s indictment alleges that Danchenko lied about two major points.

First, he fabricated the claim that the president of the Russian-American
Chamber of Commerce informed him that, during the 2016 presidential
campaign, Trump was involved in a well-developed “conspiracy of
cooperation” with the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In
reality, the indictment says, this conversation never happened.

The Chamber president is not identified by name in the indictment. After
the Steele dossier became public, however, there was intense speculation
that the Chamber’s founder, Sergey Millian, was a Steele dossier source.
As I recounted in my book on Russiagate, “Ball of Collusion,” Millian
denied being a source and trashed the dossier as “fake news created by
sick minds.”

Danchenko is also alleged to have concealed that one of his sources for
the information he provided to Steele was a longtime Democratic Party
operative who was close to the Clintons’ — having worked on both of Bill
Clinton’s successful presidential campaigns and Hillary Clinton’s
unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign. This source was revealed on
Thursday to be Chuck Dolan, a public-relations executive who had Russian
contacts, and referred to as “PR Executive-1” in the indictment.

The FBI interviewed Danchenko because it was desperately trying to
corroborate the Steele dossier claims. One question that Durham must be
pressing is: What took the Bureau so long? The Obama Justice Department
brought the FBI’s sworn claims to the secret federal foreign intelligence
surveillance court in October 2016. Though the FBI is supposed to verify
its allegations before going to court, it apparently did not interview
Danchenko, the main source for the dossier, until January 2017 — by which
time it was obtaining its second 90-day spy warrant.

It appears that Durham theorizes that the Trump-Russia collusion narrative
was a political attack manufactured by the Clinton campaign. Relying on
Danchenko, Steele compiled the reports for Glenn Simpson, co-founder of an
intelligence firm Fusion-GPS, which specializes in digging up political
dirt. Fusion-GPS was retained for the Trump project by Perkins-Coie, the
Clinton campaign’s law firm.

In September, Durham indicted former Perkins-Coie Michael Sussmann for
making a false statement to the FBI while peddling Trump-Russia
allegations that the Bureau eventually found unsubstantiated. Durham
alleges that Sussmann concealed that he was working for the Clinton
campaign and a tech executive who was hoping for an important government
job if Clinton was elected.

Durham’s charging instruments suggest that the Clinton campaign used its
agents to peddle the Trump-Russia rumors to the government and the media,
then used the fact Trump was being investigated as part of its campaign
messaging.

Andrew C. McCarthy is the author of “Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an
Election and Destroy a Presidency.”



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