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An analyst who worked on the so-called Steele dossier the salacious, largely unverified collection of former President Donald Trump's links to Russia was arrested on a federal indictment Thursday, a senior Justice Department official confirmed to NBC News.
Igor Danchenko, who's been described as the dossier's primary researcher, was arrested as part of an investigation by John Durham, the special counsel appointed by Trumps Justice Department to investigate the origins of the Russia investigation.
Danchenko is expected to appear in federal court in Virginia Thursday afternoon. The exact charges are unclear.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/analyst-who-worked-steele-dossier-arrested-part-trump-era-doj-n1283197
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)They seem to be in Camp Putin. Large portions of the Steele Dossier have been verified by other sources, including the Mueller report. Durham should be arrested. None of the dossier, as far as I've heard, has actually been disproven.
MontanaMama
(23,238 posts)I gasped. WTAF?
Champp
(2,114 posts)to keep pumping out the Republican-russian bullshit,
in an ongoing war against USA democracy.
dem4decades
(11,241 posts)You want Democrats to vote, show them the justice.
Phoenix61
(16,949 posts) but much of the information in the dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele has largely been discredited.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Because there are no examples. None of it has been discredited.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)He denies it thoroughly, and I tend to believe him given his current Trump stance.
tetedur
(814 posts)Read more at: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/investigations/article219016820.html#storylink=cpy
Discovery will be interesting. . . .
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Yet he went before Congress to testify in a hearing who's entire point was basically "I really hate Trump now" ... and claimed flat out that he knew NOTHING of Trump having dealings with Russians during the campaign. He met with Mueller multiple times as well IIRC, and there was nothing in the Mueller Report saying that happened (although I suppose it could be in the redacted part).
To me it's fair to say that particular part has been at least arguably discredited, this news blurb notwithstanding. And even if he lied about being there it doesn't prove he was meeting secretly with Russians get their help in the elections.
I agree with the general premise that a lot of the dossier is, in fact, NOT discredited, but this particular piece is the one example I think kinda ... is. Which, it's fine and normal for something like that dossier to have, it was never put forth as 100% accurate anyways!
LetMyPeopleVote
(143,998 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)This is just more of the same. If anybody needs to be arrested, it's Durham, for false arrests.
triron
(21,914 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,543 posts)Trump left behind a runaway special counsel to gum up the works.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 4, 2021, 12:33 PM - Edit history (1)
2naSalit
(86,039 posts)Rein in. Which means to gain control over rather than reign which is what a king does.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)WarGamer
(12,103 posts)Apparently this guy was interviewed extensively in 2017 re: sourcing for his input to the Steele Dossier and looks like he was fibbing.
mopinko
(69,803 posts)Botany
(70,281 posts)However a lot of things in the dossier have been proven to be true. Including that
we now know that Michael Cohn's was in Prague at the same time that Steele said
he was there (and maybe Ivanka & Jared too) to meet two Russian agents.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,642 posts)Thanks, CEO Brian L. Roberts
friend of ALEC
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Comcast_Corporation
Botany
(70,281 posts)... was that Trump was in debt to Russian Banks (Putin), the Russia Mob, various oligarchs,
China, Saudi Arabia, and his businesses had or were failing and he made money by money
laundering through his real estate.
And that Putin had been cultivating Trump as an asset for years.
* I think it is true because in March of 2013 Trump and some Russians went to club in Las Vegas
that featured golden shower shows. Some of the Russians who went with him were the same ones
who attended Trump Jr & Manafort's meeting in the Trump Tower in June of 2016.
Champp
(2,114 posts)To either confirm or refute the allegations in the Steele dossier.
Make it a huge public TV thingy. Go over all the Republican-Russian crap. Spill it out in the open once again.
And if the guy arrested today did tell a fib, get that out. But hammer home all the stuff that is true true true.
Play HARDBALL. Drag the confirmed Republican treason out into public view - again and again. Drive the truth home and make the Republicans EAT their lies and their evil treason against America.
triron
(21,914 posts)Something smells really bad. WTF is Garland doing?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)triron
(21,914 posts)triron
(21,914 posts)triron
(21,914 posts)cadoman
(792 posts)Looks like five counts of making false statements.