by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department ReporterAugust 09, 2020
A top Senate
Republican said a newly declassified FBI document on the bureau’s 2018
briefing of the Senate Intelligence Committee shows the FBI misled
Congress about the reliability of British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s
anti-Trump dossier.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, revealed that the document had been declassified during an
interview with Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures,
arguing that “somebody needs to go to jail” for the FBI misleading the
Senate Intelligence Committee about the dossier a year after Steele’s
primary subsource, recently revealed to be
Igor Danchenko, met with the FBI and disputed the reliability of the
research.
Danchenko, a 42-year-old Russian-trained lawyer, was identified as Steele’s primary subsource after Graham released declassified documents in July related to a three-day interview with Danchenko in January 2017 where he contradicted claims made in the dossier and undercut the FBI’s case against onetime Trump campaign associate Carter Page.
The FBI’s newly declassified briefing document, dated Feb. 14, 2018, and briefed to senators shortly thereafter, claimed that the primary subsource said that "several reports appeared to be derived from multiple sources, to include the information he provided to Steele as well as information that he had not collected" and that "he did not cite any significant concerns with the way his reporting was characterized in the dossier to the extent he could identify it.”
The bureau also told the senators that “at minimum, our discussions with [the primary subsource] confirm the dossier was not fabricated by Steele.” The bureau further said Danchenko “maintains trusted relationships with individuals who are capable of reporting on the material he collected for Steele.”...............To Read More....
Danchenko, a 42-year-old Russian-trained lawyer, was identified as Steele’s primary subsource after Graham released declassified documents in July related to a three-day interview with Danchenko in January 2017 where he contradicted claims made in the dossier and undercut the FBI’s case against onetime Trump campaign associate Carter Page.
The FBI’s newly declassified briefing document, dated Feb. 14, 2018, and briefed to senators shortly thereafter, claimed that the primary subsource said that "several reports appeared to be derived from multiple sources, to include the information he provided to Steele as well as information that he had not collected" and that "he did not cite any significant concerns with the way his reporting was characterized in the dossier to the extent he could identify it.”
The bureau also told the senators that “at minimum, our discussions with [the primary subsource] confirm the dossier was not fabricated by Steele.” The bureau further said Danchenko “maintains trusted relationships with individuals who are capable of reporting on the material he collected for Steele.”...............To Read More....
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