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Russiagate has no rock bottom The indictment of the Steele dossier's key source newly humiliates the Clinton campaign, FBI, and US media.
mate.substack.com ^ | 11/7/2021 | Aaron Maté

Posted on 11/08/2021 12:19:34 PM PST by bitt

It did not seem possible for the Steele dossier – the collection of Trump-Russia conspiracy theories funded by the Clinton campaign; hyped by the US media establishment; and tapped by the FBI for surveillance and investigative leads – to get more embarrassing for all of those involved.

But the indictment by Special Counsel John Durham of Steele's key source, Igor Danchenko, offers 39 pages of new evidence that Russiagate — after five years of failed innuendo, debunked “bombshells”, and humiliating revelations — has no rock bottom.

Danchenko is accused of making false statements to the FBI about his role in feeding Trump-Russia allegations to Christopher Steele, a former British spy working for the private intelligence firm Fusion GPS, which in turn was working for the Clinton campaign. Steele's so-called "intelligence reports" were planted in the media to fuel the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. The FBI also used Steele’s work as source material to chase multiple leads and obtain surveillance warrants on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.

Whereas Steele claimed to have access to "well-placed and established Kremlin sources," his main source was in fact Danchenko, a DC-based Russian expat who had worked for the Brookings Institution, a Beltway (and Clinton-tied) think tank.

In late 2019, Danchenko humiliated the Steele dossier's powerful champions when it emerged that he had informed the FBI, in a January 2017 interview, that corroboration for the Steele dossier's key claims was "zero." This was for good reason: instead of speaking to Kremlin officials, as Steele had claimed, Danchenko told FBI agents that he had instead relied on booze-fueled "hearsay" in his "conversations with friends."

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: 201701; 2019; christophersteele; cjrissteele; clinton; danchenko; fbi; igordanchenko; johndurham; russia; russiagate; russiarussiarussia; steele; steeledossier; usmedia
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1 posted on 11/08/2021 12:19:34 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 11/08/2021 12:19:45 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt
Only those capable of feeling shame can be humiliated.

3 posted on 11/08/2021 12:22:05 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: All

Yesterday

John Ratcliffe: I gave Durham over 1000 classified documents that the public hasn’t seen yet
https://rumble.com/vovn8f-john-ratcliffe-i-gave-durham-over-1000-other-documents-that-the-public-hasn.html


4 posted on 11/08/2021 12:22:06 PM PST by janetjanet998
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To: bitt

I doubt Hillary is humiliated that everyone knows about her dirty tricks - I think she does care what we think.

The only thing that really bothered her is that DJT made sure she wqsn’t POTUS.


5 posted on 11/08/2021 12:23:13 PM PST by Aria
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To: bitt

When that Foval character and the other guy bragged on camera about their personal knowledge of election law crimes committed by candidate Clinton and the party nothing happened besides them losing those jobs.

Hillary could have been found standing over a bleeding out body and the Left would say it was some form of entrapment.


6 posted on 11/08/2021 12:26:16 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Aria

I know she doesn’t care what we think, for she has said as much many times over the years.


7 posted on 11/08/2021 12:30:09 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: bitt

I’m not watching the news at all, but from what I have “heard” this is not even being talked about. So who cares, nothing is going to become of it.


8 posted on 11/08/2021 12:42:23 PM PST by southernindymom
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To: Robert DeLong

oops - typo - I meant she doesn’t care what we think.


9 posted on 11/08/2021 12:43:03 PM PST by Aria
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To: bitt

The Media cannot handle the truth.


10 posted on 11/08/2021 12:46:02 PM PST by FreedBird
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To: bitt

Does no one in the media understand that the entire “Russiagate” scandal was made up by the Hillary campaign, and was aided and abetted (in gross violation of the law) by elements of the FBI, CIA and Department of Justice - at a minimum?

Yeah, it has “no bottom” - if we actually had a functioning judicial system that would fairly investigate and prosecute political corruption and fraud by people who are well-connected. But we don’t have that - we have dribs and drabs coming out very slowly, which enable the chief perpetrators and organizers of this putsch to live out their lives and, possibly, for statutes of limitation to pass. The delay itself is an element of the conspiracy.


11 posted on 11/08/2021 12:50:18 PM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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12 posted on 11/08/2021 12:51:08 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Aria

No problem. At least we agree. 🙂


13 posted on 11/08/2021 1:16:23 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Only those capable of feeling shame can be humiliated.

Exactly.

14 posted on 11/08/2021 1:16:42 PM PST by glorgau
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To: DJ MacWoW

At least some of them.


15 posted on 11/08/2021 1:21:20 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: bitt

Democrats lie and cheat, what’s new ?

VOTE DEMOCRATS OUT !!!

Vote them out.


16 posted on 11/08/2021 1:25:42 PM PST by Pearfect
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To: bitt
Durham may well do his job to its fullest, but Biden will just pardon all of these criminals. The military were the ones that had to handle this mess, not the legal system.
17 posted on 11/08/2021 1:34:13 PM PST by Major Matt Mason
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C’mon man those entities cannot be humiliated…


18 posted on 11/08/2021 1:34:31 PM PST by TnTnTn
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To: bitt
Posted here with links to articles and video:

Russiagate has no rock bottom (BONUS: Rachael Maddow Video)

19 posted on 11/08/2021 1:57:32 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: Rurudyne

Or a sleazy liar who suffers from an Organic Brain Disease is elected President and destroys the flourishing Trump economy in 6 months...


20 posted on 11/08/2021 3:38:04 PM PST by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the gov out of medicine, education and forests!)
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