TechnoFog has a good outline on the background of Igor Danchenko and the DOJ/FBI team effort to avoid undermining the Steele Dossier. {SEE HERE} The accurate analysis ends with the following question, also posed by Sergei Millian: “Why was the DOJ/FBI covering for Danchenko“?
To my friends in the truth media, the answer is inside the information previously released {See Here} which we have covered for a long time; and which the righteous media (Mollie Hemmingway, Lee Smith, Kimberley Strassel, etc) are hopefully only a few weeks away from outlining.
The DOJ/FBI coverup, which included being purposefully blind to the 2017 Danchenko revelations, was not done to protect Danchenko. It was done to protect Andrew Weissmann and Robert Mueller.
Yes, the FBI and DOJ knew the primary subsource for Christopher Steele, Igor Danchenko, disavowed the material in the dossier and undermined it in January of 2017 and again in June 15, 2017, as everyone is noting. Yes, despite that knowledge Mueller/Weissmann applied for a FISA renewal on June 29th. However, there’s a date a year later, all the way into July of 2018, when the DOJ and FBI claimed that Danchenko was speaking truth in their affirmation to the FISA court.
THAT is in 2018.
Why would the same DOJ/FBI officials who knew the dossier was junk in early 2017 lie to the FISA court in 2018?
ANSWER: Because they were not protecting Danchenko, they were protecting Robert Mueller.
Robert Muller was appointed by institutional preservationist Rod Rosenstein in order to cover up the era of government abuse and political weaponization by corrupt and highly political FBI and DOJ officials. Robert Mueller was as much the Special Counsel as Joe Biden is the current presidency; which is to say they are figureheads, avatars, public faces to activity that is really underway by those behind them.
When Mueller appeared before congress, the public got their first-hand look at how disconnected he was from any actual involvement in the investigation that carried his name. He knew virtually nothing about the two year investigation, because he was a title in name only. The real players charged to throw a bag over the corrupt activity preceding their appointment was the team led by Andrew Weissmann.
When Andrew Weissmann and crew entered the DOJ to effectively run the Trump-Russia investigation, their purpose was to: (1) continue what was ongoing; and (2) coverup all that came before. AG Jeff Sessions recused himself, and DAG Rod Rosenstein became the co-dependent enabler for the Weissmann crew’s needs.
During a June 2020 Senate hearing, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein openly admitted to being nothing more than the rubber stamp for every request. Rosenstein approved every request, signed every authorization and agreed to every scope expansion Andrew Weissmann put in front of him. There was nothing Rosenstein ever denied the Weissmann crew.
Team Weissmann, under the authorities of a blank-check special counsel, effectively ran Main Justice top to bottom for two years. When you accept the framework Rosenstein later admitted was in place, then you understand that anything blocked from DOJ/FBI release (see Nunes pleas) was blocked by Weissmann Inc; and everything that ever came out of the DOJ/FBI was released by Weissmann Inc. Reread that as many times as needed until it sinks in.
Back to the question about why the DOJ/FBI were protecting Danchenko by not exposing the lies that John Durham is now making public in his indictments.
To wit, I would reference you THAT specific moment in July of 2018 when Team Weissmann wrote a letter to the FISA Court that was increasingly distrusting of what they were seeing and hearing within the justice system:
Look at how the FISA was used by the Mueller investigation to continue its weaponization throughout 2017 and even into 2018. In July of 2018, long after the source material was debunked, the special counsel office was still telling the FISA court the predication for the FISA application and subsequent renewals was valid.
Drive this point home. This is a key to understanding the scope of how weaponized the Mueller team was.
In July of 2018 the special counsel resistance group was lying to the FISA court in order to protect the cornerstone document that permitted them to weaponize the intelligence apparatus.
This letter was written July 12, 2018. It is NOT accidental that only a week later, July 21st, the special counsel released the FISA application under the guise of FOIA fulfillment.
Aside from the date, the important part of the first page is the motive for sending it. The Mueller team running the DOJ is telling the court in July 2018: based on what they know the FISA application still contains “sufficient predication for the Court to have found probable cause” to approve the application. The resistance unit running the DOJ is defending the Carter Page FISA application as still valid.
On page #8 [Source Document Here] when discussing Christopher Steele’s sub-source, Igor Danchenko, the special counsel group notes the FBI found Danchenko to be truthful and cooperative.
This is an incredibly misleading statement to the FISA court, because what the letter doesn’t say is that 18-months earlier Danchenko, also known in the IG report as the “primary sub-source”, disavowed the content and informed the FBI that the material attributed to him in the dossier was essentially junk.
By July 2018, the DOJ clearly knew the dossier was full of fabrications, yet they withheld that information from the court and said the predicate was still valid. Why?
It doesn’t take a deep-weeds-walker to identify the DOJ motive. In July 2018 Robert Mueller’s investigation was at its apex.
This letter justifying the application and claiming that current information would still be a valid predicate therein, speaks to the 2018 DOJ needing to retain the validity of the FISA warrant. The DOJ needed to protect evidence Mueller/Weissmann had already extracted from the fraudulently obtained FISA authority. Protect the ‘fruit of the poisoned tree’, that’s the motive.
In July 2018, if the DOJ-NSD had admitted the FISA application and all renewals were fatally flawed, Robert Mueller/Andrew Weismann may have needed to withdraw any evidence gathered as a result of its exploitation. The DOJ in 2018 was protecting Mueller’s poisoned fruit.
If the DOJ had been honest with the court, there’s a strong possibility some, perhaps much, of Mueller evidence gathering would have been invalidated… and cases were pending. The solution: mislead the court, ie. lie, and claim the predication was still valid.
That’s the bigger issue. Forget Danchenko and go there.
No coincidence that now the fingers are pointing to Mueller Swalwell suddenly and continuously claims he and other corrupted politicians had no idea how demented Robert Muller was until he testified before Congress. Swalwell, the wannabe expert mental health professional, was one of the first to claim President Trump was “crazy.” I assume the Crazy Trump worked for Swalwell, so that now he will use it as an excuse to cover up for Muller’s treasonous behavior.
I do recall Mueller Investigation was to search for Russian (foreign) influence in our election.
For those paying attention, it was DNC/Clinton/Perkins Coie/GPS/Steele/Danschenko connection with monies and communications flows which were apparent from the beginning. These clearly showed foreign involvement in influencing our elections and a Presidency.
And yet, never researched by Mueller and Weissman?
Durham will get to Weissmann and Mueller. It starts with Fiona Hill – who introduced everyone to each other. Then Nellie Ohr and her husband go down. Then, they get into the Mueller team.
My opinion Durham will get there but he’s months away.
A commenter yesterday said one indictment per week all the way up the ladder.
I’m skeptical of that but happy to watch ANY bad guy get nailed for this. So far looks like Durham team is working their way up the ladder.
I said it because ratcliffe confirmed it and a popular podcast where one member is friends with a jd prosecutor said to expect one per week. Seems they have most things ready to go
So I’m hopeful too. More so than a month ago
Former DNI John Ratcliff stated that he KNOWS what will happen as he provided the Durham team 1,000 documents previously declassified. He can’t say but reading between the lines, the President Donald J. Trump, and the American deplorables and doops are about to be vindicated. Several MSM anchors and their networks will be sued. Hillary, well Hillary, might not escape with her life. Barry O and Joe, Yoda and Brennan. Samantha Powers – the unmasker – and Mr. Heinz-Kerry, Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett – the equity twins. Most of all . . . the DNC hierarchy. Too bad for all of them! Around the bowl and down the hole, go Alinskyites go!!!
I do now trust Durham follows his principles, AND
the wheels of Justice turn slowly…but GLACIALLY ??
This is almost like watching a soccer game, ending in a “0-0 tie” !
Glacier are moving faster today than ever and breaking into bigger pieces. Portents faster news in bigger stories.
That one per week will be an average. Relying on Durham to roll out multiple indictments in some weeks. Yah Hoo!!
It has been said that every good journey begins with the first step.
I am wondering how Merrick Garland will queer the investigations,
indictments and prosecutions, of the Prime Movers ?
We KNOW he was appointed AG, to gum up the works.
Pretty sure he will find his was to Team Mueller, but also think he will work his was back to the Clinton Global Initiative and Clinton Foundation. From there the world becomes smaller.
Sometimes I think the Trump Admin was designed to entrap the the swamp. I know he said he would drain it, but I think it could have easily been a sting operation from the hop.
Sundance, You need to hear this!!!!!! There are reports in the Russian Media (could be true, maybe not) that Danchenko is originally a Ukrainian in origin with the suspicion that he is a plant (by whom we can only guess). His name is definitely Ukrainian. The Russians are giving passports to ethnic Russians in Ukraine in places like Donbass and elsewhere so it would be quite possible for someone to apply for Russian citizenship without really being ‘Russian’. This could all be BS but it would follow. If Danchenko was actually Ukrainian that would explain his motivations.
The questions that need to be asked is where Danchenko was born and lived within Ukraine, what tribe his family belongs to and their politics, when he became ‘Russian’ and why. Whatever Steele was paying him, it could not have been enough.
I heard he was from Belarus.
We will probably find out. The Russians are hypersensitive that Danchenko will be pinned on them and they will try to get to the bottom of it. They are quite aware they are the new bogy man. And it is not just the government. Many Russian Americans are so sick of this they could puke. Unfortunately for them, they have zero PR influence in the US. It took 5 years for the Biden’s shenanigan’s to become known here when it was known there the day that it occurred. It was true with the Browder / Magnitsky bruhaha too. This is not to say that the Russians are above playing games but that we have not seen the final twist or turn of this. Keep your eyes open.
Indictments, yes. Prosecutions and guilty verdicts? I wouldn’t bet on Biden’s politicized DOJ pursuing any of these indictments in a meaningful way!
I’m with you on this, indictments yes, prosecutions never happen. We all must remember and know this, Washington D.C. is a sanctuary city for corrupt politicians.
Danchenko indictment was out of DC I remember
Corrupted Garlick will block it all in the end.
Am I alone with my gut feeling of this all leading back to Obama? Obviously, HRC was hot to trot in all of this and guilty of many crimes leading the list of the most heinous of crimes, but Hussain scammed and cheated his own mentor in Illinois out of her Senate seat, then he stole Hillary’s DNC nomination in 08 by manipulating Precinct Committeemen and murdering several of the county commissioners who were in the process of bringing it all forward to show Hillary had the majority of votes (all true and documented in several YT videos). I lived in chicago during his corrupt scam to win the senate seat as well as the 08 presidential primary and general election. Anyway, the big O was plucked and placed by someone even more corrupt than HRC. He wasn’t born here, nor did he ever attend Colombia and every public office seat he won he did so by corruptly cheating his way to win with crimes and scandal. I believe he put HRC on his side when he agreed to make her SOS in his admin. She knew he was corrupt and he knew she was so they both have free rein to rot every system in every way for 8 years. Once PT was winning primaries and the Rep candidate they didn’t want to take any chances of him winning and getting access to all the proof of their crimes, guaranteeing to lock them up or worse. So they decided to illegally spy and use the power of the government to try to make sure he didn’t win and when he did anyway they were desperate to cover their tracks and fast. Part of that plan was to be sure he didn’t have anyone capable of preventing their rinos and deep state embeds from blocking his progress and no one with the knowledge to find the goods they needed to take down the cartel corrupting our government. This is where Flynn is immediately targeted and Pence was hand picked as the their vp of choice bc they had dirt on him and knew he wanted to be President so if they had him in the WH helping along their palms of impeachment and Flynn and other Patriots removals they would be just fine. So they didn’t care what it took or how illegal it was they had to do it to cover their own tracks ans paint him as the villain. It’s all really clear to anyone who really pays attention. BHO is the one who wants all the Muslim Afghans here and he’s the one who originally and repeatedly assisted Iran in the nuclear Iran deal, then the hundreds of millions in cash at the end of his presidency, then the Afghanistan debacle and all the new 85billion in equipment plus millions in cash left behind for them? Oh, and not to mention 150K plus flown into our country given citizenship and all the money needed to reallocate here in the US starting at all of our military bases.
BHO also started the weakening of our military under his admin, defunding of it, enforcing equity and race and transgender etc. Now the CRT and white nationalist purge and crt teachings… he is all over this. Flooding our borders with illegals. He doesn’t care if it’s the CCP and the Muslim brotherhood who destroy our nation and take over control as long as someone does.
Anyone else’s intuition lead them along this path as well or is this just me myself and I? ?
The biggest thing that has been secured is the courier satchel of money given to terrorists(Isis) from Bengazi – $$ for Arms. They caught those ISIS guys early last year and they handed over the receipts from Hillary/Obama transactions…certainly Treason. I suspect this is the Clinton Foundation angle Durham might be persuing, but I’ll be patient
My gut says Hillary started this as an opportunity to criticise Trump during a campaign. Her campaign was in so much trouble with the emials ( actually because she is a crook), that she needed something. This typical oppo research was the ticket so she weaponized it.
The thought was she will win and it will all be buried. When she lost, all the participants, including Obama and Biden, knew they had a problem so they schemed to continue the storyline to eliminate Trump, or at a minimum destroy or delay his ability to govern. However, so many crimes had been committed, FISA, CHS’s, Obama and Biden meetings with the crooks that they went into full blown crisis mode, resulting in the Mueller corrupt probe.
They almost got away with it and may still. Certianly they limited Trump and probably gave Biden a win with their corruption.
https://twitter.com/MonsieursGhost/status/1457790254744674307/photo/1
Hmmm.
I did not read all the comments so someone may have already pointed this out. This article doesn’t contain Sundance’s usual disclaimer. That and Radcliffe’s interview on Bartiromo yesterday may be a flickering spark or two at the end of a very long and multi-webbed tunnel. Or maybe not.
I think the article itself is Sundance retracting his previous disclaimer. He did so with details and evidence included in the above article. Some folks may not recall the valiant trip our fearless Sundance made to D..C. to discuss the Fisa warrant leak. lots of energy put into that trip.
I was looking for an older posting by SD where he called the Special Counsel inquiry a perjury trap from the beginning. Havent found it yet, but still looking
I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
Try re-writing your words in a form that would indicate you are speaking to another person, as opposed to assembling words that make sense to you.
Sorry. I would answer a question, but I can’t find one.
Sorry for the confusion. It had to do with the disclaimer about Durham actually going after Mueller’s team.
Mueller knew the “Dossier” was a phony opposition “novel”, created by Hillary and her peeps.
His opting to continue the investigation, based on that false information, was a “bad decision”, that I hope will win him some well deserved time in Club Fed ! We know that Brennan, Obama and Biden…among others…were aware of the “false dossier”, but allowed the costly, and eventually seditious investigations to go on. We must recall that obstructing as sitting President (PDJT), with the help of others is “seditious conspiracy”. This reaffirms my initial predictions that BHO, the prime mover IMHO, will spend his retirement avoiding rendition, while residing in France, as a fugitive Ex-Patriot.
“Jail to the Chief !”.
There’s only 25,000+ people that want to kill Andrew Weissmann. This dirt bag has destroyed more lives than any Tyrant in History. Yes, including him too.
The great dilemma is that if the prosecution is too fast they will make fatal mistakes and the guilt will walk. If they are too slow it won’t matter what they discover because nobody in a position of authority will care.
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someone tell me – is there anyone in DOJ who can sideline Durham and stop his work? Is he completely independent?
I havent read it all but maybe we can discuss as a group:
https://scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2044&context=ublr
Sundance, thank you for your excellent input. You have been on this since the 702 inquiries.
Just one question….Why is the court letting Weissman “tell” them okeydokey. Isn’t their job to sit there and listen to his evidence, review the documents and decide yes or know themselves. If this is how it works we can cut all those high paid lifetime jobs. That is the crux of the problem. The founders wanted shield the judges from untoward pressure. All the current system is doing is making the lazy and dishonest like Judge Sullivan.
Not sure this is the perjury trap post I was looking for but I thought it was worth a share: