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NYT: John Durham zeroing in on the brookings institute. Obtains thousands of documents
Posted on 4/12/21 at 4:25 pm
Posted on 4/12/21 at 4:25 pm
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Mr. Durham has obtained documents from the Brookings Institution related to Igor Danchenko, a Russia researcher who worked there a decade ago and later helped gather rumors about Mr. Trump and Russia for that research, known as the Steele dossier, according to people familiar with the request.
By asking about the dossier, Mr. Durham has come to focus at least in part on re-scrutinizing an aspect of the investigation that was already exposed as problematic by a 2019 Justice Department inspector general report and led to reforms by the F.B.I. and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Mr. Danchenko traveled to Russia in 2016 and gathered rumors about Mr. Trump and his associates on behalf of Christopher Steele, who produced the dossier as a subcontractor for an investigative firm being indirectly paid by Democrats to look into any Trump-Russia ties.
Michael Cavadel, the general counsel of Brookings, confirmed the subpoena for records and other materials about Mr. Danchenko, saying that it was received on Dec. 31 and that the think tank had taken until February to gather the files and turn them over to Mr. Durham’s team in part because its office is closed during the pandemic.
from 2009 to 2011 Mr. Danchenko had been the subject of an F.B.I. counterintelligence investigation assessing his contacts with several suspected Russian intelligence officials, including at the Russian Embassy.
For example, Mr. Durham’s team is said to have asked why the F.B.I., after identifying Mr. Danchenko as a major source for the dossier and interviewing him in early 2017, did not tell the surveillance court that he had once been the subject of a counterintelligence investigation.
Mr. Durham is also said to be interested in a meeting between the F.B.I. and Mr. Steele in Rome in early October 2016, shortly before the bureau submitted the first wiretap application that used information from his dossier.
The previous month, Yahoo News had published an article that contained information that overlapped with claims in the dossier, and the F.B.I. later learned that Mr. Steele had been a source for it, prompting the bureau to sever its relationship with him. At the time, as the bureau told the court in its wiretap application, it assumed the source had been someone else who had received a copy of the dossier.
Mr. Durham is said to have asked why F.B.I. officials at that October meeting apparently did not ask Mr. Steele whether he was the article’s source — before using his information to apply for permission to wiretap the former Trump adviser, Carter Page.
The focus raised the possibility that Mr. Durham has been exploring whether F.B.I. officials knowingly misled the surveillance court.
Subpoenaing the Brookings Institution, Durham Focuses on Trump-Russia Dossier
This post was edited on 4/12/21 at 4:29 pm
Posted on 4/12/21 at 4:27 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I'm interested in Mr Durham actually ARRESTING some fricking body.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 4:28 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Oh oh. Tic-toc
Just kidding. Nothing will happen
Just kidding. Nothing will happen
Posted on 4/12/21 at 4:29 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Durham needs to shite or get off the pot.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 4:30 pm to Revelator
And like clockwork, my op, despite voicing ZERO opinion, is gathering downvotes
Posted on 4/12/21 at 4:31 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
not by me, but I agree that there is a lot of messenger shooting when the news isn't so great
Posted on 4/12/21 at 4:34 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Trust Sessions
Trust Wray
Trust Barr
Trust Durham
Trust Wray
Trust Barr
Trust Durham
Posted on 4/12/21 at 4:37 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
So. They're still trying to impeach Trump? Seems like a good use of resources.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 4:38 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Downvotes because nothing will happen as they are protected
Posted on 4/12/21 at 4:39 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
And like clockwork, my op, despite voicing ZERO opinion, is gathering downvotes
I did give an opinion. Durham will do nothing with whatever information he finds.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 4:40 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Oh ffs what has this doofus been doing?
Posted on 4/12/21 at 4:41 pm to deathvalleytiger10
So some obscure Russian dude getting paid by Clinton for disinformation? Really? Why not just get a cloth and wipe this travesty investigation clean...
Posted on 4/12/21 at 4:45 pm to CamdenTiger
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So some obscure Russian dude getting paid by Clinton for disinformation? Really? Why not just get a cloth and wipe this travesty investigation clean...
He's actually not obscure. His name has been out there as being associated with the Steele dossier for about two years. Which just illustrates what a nothing-burger this is. If I heard his name two years ago, oh boy, Durham is really hot on the trail! Any day now....
Posted on 4/12/21 at 4:50 pm to HabaneroBuck
This investigation is an embarrassment to investigations. Dear lord just put it out of its misery.
Durham was handed the keys to the kingdom and now he is just some plebe doing grunt work to pass the time.
Durham was handed the keys to the kingdom and now he is just some plebe doing grunt work to pass the time.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 4:50 pm to tgerb8
quote:
So. They're still trying to impeach Trump? Seems like a good use of resources.
So, people are still trying to break into the Capitol? Seems like a good use of resources.
So, Trump was out of office when he was last impeached. Seems like a good use of resources.
I can go on......
Posted on 4/12/21 at 4:59 pm to TrueTiger
quote:
not by me, but I agree that there is a lot of messenger shooting when the news is broken by HHM
Fixed...it isn’t me either but damn HHM you have a lot of “friends” here.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 5:15 pm to Crimson1st
it isn't me either but anytime anyone posts Durham tick tocks-- the OP gets DVed.
I will upvote HHM to prove I am not a mean ole downvoter.
HHM, post more from the article as the Slimes is paywalled.
Is Durham going to arrest this dude?
I will upvote HHM to prove I am not a mean ole downvoter.
HHM, post more from the article as the Slimes is paywalled.
Is Durham going to arrest this dude?
Posted on 4/12/21 at 5:17 pm to JackieTreehorn
quote:you forgot Kansas, you can never forget Kansas.
Trust Sessions
Trust Wray
Trust Barr
Trust Durham
Trust Kansas
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