Posted on 07/24/2020 5:52:25 PM PDT by CaptainK
The mysterious “Primary Subsource” that Christopher Steele has long hidden behind to defend his discredited Trump-Russia dossier is former Brookings Institution analyst -- Igor “Iggy” Danchenko, a Russian national whose past includes criminal convictions and other personal baggage ignored by the FBI in vetting him and the information he fed to Steele, according to congressional sources and records obtained by RealClearInvestigations. Agents continued to use the dossier as grounds to investigate President Trump and put his advisers under counter-espionage surveillance.
The 42-year-old Danchenko, who was hired by Steele in 2016 to deploy a network of sources to dig up dirt on Trump and Russia for the Hillary Clinton campaign, was arrested, jailed and convicted years earlier on multiple public drunkenness and disorderly conduct charges in the Washington area and ordered to undergo substance-abuse and mental-health counseling, according to criminal records.
In an odd twist, a 2013 federal case against Danchenko was prosecuted by then-U.S Attorney Rod Rosenstein, who ended up signing one of the FBI’s dossier-based wiretap warrants as deputy attorney general in 2017.
Danchenko first ran into trouble with the law as he began working for Brookings — the preeminent Democratic think tank in Washington — where he struck up a friendship with Fiona Hill, the White House adviser who testified against Trump during last year's impeachment hearings. Danchenko has described Hill as a mentor, while Hill has sung his praises as a “creative” researcher.
Hill is also close to his boss Steele, who she’d
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“””where he struck up a friendship with Fiona Hill, the White House adviser who testified against Trump during last year’s impeachment hearings. Danchenko has described Hill as a mentor, while Hill has sung his praises as a “creative” researcher. “””””””
Another member of the coup.
“He had contacted me because he wanted to see if I could give him a contact to some other individual, who actually I don’t even recall now, who he could approach about some business issues,” Hill told the House last year in an Oct. 14 deposition taken behind closed doors.
Congressional investigators are reviewing her testimony, while taking a closer look at tax-exempt Brookings, which has emerged as a nexus in the dossier scandal.
Hmmm..could Saint Fiona Hill have lied to Congress?
The people in this mess demonstrate the political incest that pervades the swamp, between bureaucrats, “think tanks” and top congressional staffers, where employment is permanent as they merely rotate over the years between those three sorts of venues and one hand keeps washing the other for power and influence over policy.
Forget the sub-source. The primary source was Strobe Talbot.
I’d bet money on it.
she appeared to me to be a sad vindictive very partial witness..hiding something..her testimony below
hope they nail her (in court)
Christopher Steele Text Messages Revealed At First Day Of Dossier Defamation Trial July 21, 2020In one message after Donald Trump’s election win in November 2016, Steele asked Strobe Talbott, who then served as president of the prestigious Brookings Institution, how he wanted to handle “the package” — a reference to the dossier.
In another message from early 2017, Steele urged David Kramer, an associate of Sen. John McCain’s, not to tell reporters that Steele had been a source for another journalist on a dossier-related story.
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Andrew Caldecott, the lead lawyer for Gubarev, said that Talbott, who served as deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration, called Steele in August 2016 inquiring about his investigation of the Trump campaign.
This Danchenko stooge was ID’d a few days ago on Twitter. He’s probably hiding out with Mifsud right about now.
I think not.
IMO everyone with any ties to the Brookings Institution should be on the list.
Early 2017 = during Trump admin. This is coupist activity here.
Without a doubt.
Article notes some interesting coincidences.
Strobe Talbott was Bill Clinton’s college pal and ambassador to Moscow. By coincidence, Talbott, was head of Brookings during this period, met with Steele, and even passed along a copy of Steele’s “dossier” to Fiona Hill.
Also by pure coincidence, Cody Shearer, a Clinton dirty trickster reputed to be nastier than Sidney Blumenthal, is Strobe Talbott’s brother in law. Also by coincidence, Shearer pushed his own version of an anti-Trump “dossier”, and Steele even tried to use it a corroboration of his own trash.
“””””And in a message weeks earlier, Steele told Sir Andrew Wood, the former British ambassador to Russia, that McCain was “compromised” by being given a copy of the dossier.”””””
And McCain and girlfriend Linda Graham walked hand in hand to bring the dossier over to Comey.
Crooks, all of them.
“Igor “Iggy” Danchenko, a Russian national”
Names like Danchenko that end in “-chenko” are Ukrainian.
Certainly lots of Russian nationals have Ukrainian names, and perhaps this guy has no connections to Ukrainians. But given the outsized Ukrainian connection with much of the “Dossier”, it makes me wonder.
The Russian Hunter S Thompson? “It must be true, why else would I have said it.”
Names like Danchenko that end in “-chenko” are Ukrainian.
Certainly lots of Russian nationals have Ukrainian names, and perhaps this guy has no connections to Ukrainians. But given the outsized Ukrainian connection with much of the “Dossier”, it makes me wonder.
A lot ethnic Ukrainians in Russia due to geography, jobs and family ties.
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