[tomder55]

ok so Danchenko ,who worked at the Dem think tank Brookings Institute ;who gave Steele the fantasy dirt on Trump ;who smeared a patriot Carter Page and gave the FBI lies about Page that they used to open a FISA warrant against him and the Trump campaign ;who later was a paid FBI informant ........ was himself investigated by the FBI previously .

New filings by Durham for the Danchenko trial reveal that while he was in Brookings ;and prior to the emperor's reign ,he "engaged two fellow employees about whether one...might be willing or able in the future to provide classified information in exchange for money."
Danchenko thought the employee "might be in a position to enter the incoming Obama administration and have access to classified information." Danchenko allegedly told his colleague that "he had access to people who would be willing to pay money...for classified information."

So the FBI opened and investigation on him from late 2008-2011....."as an associate of two FBI counterintelligence subjects" They found that he "had previous contact with the Russian embassy and known Russian intelligence officers." He "had also informed one Russian intelligence officer that he had interest in entering the Russian diplomatic service."

The FBI closed the investigation after they had mistakenly concluded that he left the country

Despite knowing this, the FBI from March 2017 through October 2020,put him on the payroll as an informant.

The FBI Paid for Russian Disinformation While Punishing a Patriot | Opinion (newsweek.com)

[tomder55]

Danchenko trial began

Breaking news is that the FBI offered Christopher Steele $1 million to corroborate the details of the dossier . He was unable to back up the claims . This came from questioning of Brian Auten, a supervisory counter intelligence analyst with the FBI. Auten repeatedly admitted under questioning from Durham that the FBI never got corroboration of the information in the dossier but used it in the initial FISA application and in the three subsequent renewals.

Robert Mueller's henchman Andrew Weissman knew this and still proceeded with the witch hunt against Trump.

Durham still is going with this narrative that somehow the FBI was duped . Oh they wanted the info in the dossier to be true .The leadership in the FBI was not duped at all . They went into this with eyes wide open.

[tomder55]

He was acquitted of all charges . The deep swamp state is indeed deep .

[tomder55]

The jury is in . The deep state swamp can now legitimately claim that ANY accusation the the FBI has done anything wrong should just be ignored .
The main "source " to Christopher Steel's salacious and completely false dossier was found not guilty on 4 counts of lying to the FBI. A 5th count was dismissed by the judge because his lie was about an email instead of a phone call as Durham claimed

Durham's task was to prove the lies affected the FBI's investigation. The evidence showed it didn't because the FBI knew that he lied to them ;and they just did not care . They went ahead with the phony narrative of the dossier ,and submitted it to the FISA court anyway to spy on the Trump campaign.

Durham will write a final report about his investigation where he will prove beyond a doubt that the FBI was complicit in the Evita conspiracy to sabotage the Trump campaign and to criminalize his Presidency.

The problem is that in not getting any indictments ;and not even trying to indict any of the principles of the FBI involved ;there will be pressure on AG Garland to not permit the report to go public

One of the reason the deep state swap can shield itself from legal liability is that cased involving swamp critters are tried in DC and it's environs . Sussman's trial was in DC . This one was in Alexandriae Va ;a burb of DC . Potential jurors too often are invested in the swamp.

Here is a thought for the incoming red wave . The Constitution gives Congress the power to construct the judiciary . Only the Supreme Court is mandated .

“The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” (Article 3 Sec 1 )

There is nothing that says that cases involving the Federal government have to be done in a DC area court . Congress could as an example designate Federal cases on a rotating basis to jurisdictions around the country. These cases after all affect the entire nation.

The problem is that Quid Pro Joe has veto power . But that could be resolved by compromise since the Dems long for an expansion of the judiciary (last happened in 1990 when Congress expanded the circuit courts by 11 permanent seats and the district courts by 61 permanent seats. ) Clueless and the Dems would get their jollies appointing new judges . Deep state cases would be fairly adjudicated by the people of the country and not by people who have a vested interest in the outcome.

[tomder55]

A close examination of the FISA requests the FBI filed to spy on the Trump campaign reveals that the FBI lifted entire sentences verbatim from the debunked Steele dossier in the applications . They then filed it to the court without verification of source or content using hedging language like “allegedly” or “purportedly” to indicate that the claims were unverified.
The application reads "the FBI has learned” that Trump campaign  adviser Carter Page had secretly met with sanctioned Kremlin officials in Moscow. But those allegations  came from Steele researcher Igor Danchenko, who admitted to the FBI in a January 2017 that the claim was just hearsay gathered from “conversation with friends over beer.”The FBI knew it was bogus information . They offered Steele $1 million to verify the content of the dossier and he could not .

The FISA warrant applications were signed off on by both Comey and McCabe when they knew the information provided by Danchenko in the dossier was bogus . Even after 2017 when they definitively knew his information was false they did not correct the applications as required by law. Instead they continued to meet with Steele and Danchenko to dig up more Trump dirt .The information was so deliberately inaccurate that the FBI was reprimanded by FISA judge Rosemary Collyer in 2019 .Collyer signed the original warrants on Carter Page .She warned that other FISA  warrants may be equally tainted and based on fraudulent information.

The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or  contradicted by information in their possession,  and [the frequency] with which they withheld information  detrimental to their  case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI  applications is reliable,

MIsc 19 02 191217.pdf (uscourts.gov)

Besides the FBI deceptions ;the bigger question is what did the FISA courts do to address this besides this mild slap on the wrist ? The powers the court has exceeds almost any other judicial body in the country .

Under today’s foreign intelligence surveillance system, the government’s ability to collect information about ordinary Americans’ lives has increased exponentially while judicial oversight has been reduced to near-nothingness. This report concludes that the role of today’s FISA Court no longer comports with constitutional requirements, including the strictures of Article III and the Fourth Amendment.

What Went Wrong with the FISA Court | Brennan Center for Justice

When Congress created the FISA Court, it made a departure from all the accumulated experience of our centuries-long legal tradition. It created an institution that was novel and untested, with secrecy and the lack of adversarial proceedings short-circuiting the normal operation of normal courts in very profound ways. It did this out of a recognition that our giant yet secretive national security agencies are something new in human history, that require new, more robust forms of checks and balances. But it now seems very clear that this deformed mutant version of a “court” is not up to the job.

The FISA Court’s Problems Run Deep, and More Than Tinkering is Required | News & Commentary | American Civil Liberties Union (aclu.org)

[jlisenbe]

What is most disturbing in this story is that the FBI is operating along the lines of a secret police. They target people they find unacceptable, in this case Trump, and lie like a dog to make a "case" against him, and yet very few people seem to find it disturbing. Suppose the Trump FBI had targeted HC in that fashion? What response do you think it would have brought about? The attitude of so many liberals is that anything goes as long it goes against conservatives.