{"id":3843,"date":"2022-10-26T16:51:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T16:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=3843"},"modified":"2022-10-26T16:56:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T16:56:43","slug":"new-email-reveals-answer-to-establishments-efforts-to-oust-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=3843","title":{"rendered":"NEW EMAIL REVEALS ANSWER TO ESTABLISHMENT\u2019S EFFORTS TO OUST TRUMP"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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DAYS OF NOAH<\/div>\n
\u201cBut as the days of Noe were, so shall also the \n
coming 2555: <\/font> parousia, par-oo-see\u00b4-ah; from the present participle of 3918; a being near, i.e. advent (often, return; specially, of Christ to punish Jerusalem, or finally the wicked); (by implication) physically, aspect: \u2014 coming, presence<\/span><\/div> of the Son of man be.\"\n \u2014 Matthew 24:37<\/blockquote><\/div>\n\n
CORRUPTION<\/div>\n
\u201cThere were\n
corrupt 7843: <\/font>> shachath, shaw-khath\u00b4; a primitive root; to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively):\u2014batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, x utterly, waste(-r)<\/span><\/div> before God, and the earth was filled with violence.\"\n \u2014 Genesis 6:11<\/blockquote><\/div>\n \n
TRUTH IS FALLEN<\/div>\n
\"\u201dAnd judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off:\n\n
truth STONG\u2019S 571: <\/font>emeth; from 539; firmness, faithfulness, truth:\u2014correctly(m)(1), faith(1), faithful(2), faithfully(6), faithfulness(10), lasting(1), right(1), true(18), truly(4), truth(80), True(1), truthful(2).<\/span><\/div> is\n
fallen STONG\u2019S 3782: <\/font>kashal; a prim. root;to stumble, stagger, totter:\u2014bring down(m)(2), brought down(1), cast down(1), downfall(m)(1), fail(m)(1), failed(1), failing(1), fall(4), fall down(1), feeble(m)(3), feeble*(m)(1), overthrown(m)(1), stumble(26), stumble badly(1), stumbled(12), stumbles(2), tottering(1), weak(m)(1)..<\/span><\/div> in the street, and equity cannot enter.\" \n \u2014 Isiah 59:14<\/blockquote><\/div>\n\n
\"Thou shalt not bear
false STRONG\u2019S 8267: <\/font> sheqer, sheh\u00b4-ker; from 8266; an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial):\u2014without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, + lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.<\/span><\/div>
witness STRONG\u2019S 5707: <\/font> \ua725ed, ayd; contracted from 5749 ; concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince:\u2014witness.<\/span><\/div> against thy neighbour. \u2014 Exodus 20:16<\/blockquote><\/div>\n\n
SPIRITUALLY DECAYING NATION<\/div>\n
\"If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they. \n<\/span> \u2014 Ecclesiastes 5:8<\/blockquote><\/strong><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Article Source: The Epoch Times<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

An\u00a0FBI\u00a0email previously not known to the public has revealed that the bureau planned to make Igor Danchenko\u2014the primary source for British former spy Christopher Steele\u2019s Trump dossier\u2014a confidential human source (CHS) before it had even interviewed him.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The revelation, which was discovered as a result of special counsel John Durham\u2019s case against Danchenko, indicates that the FBI deliberately targeted 2016 presidential candidate and later President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0with claims it already knew at the time to be false.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The email\u2014of which only the subject line has been made public\u2014was first uncovered by an internet sleuth who goes by the moniker \u201cWalkafyre\u201d\u00a0and was included in hundreds of unused exhibits from Danchenko\u2019s trial.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The FBI used Danchenko\u2014who was acquitted last week on all charges of lying to the FBI\u2014in its investigation of Trump, despite knowing that Danchenko had helped fabricate the dossier.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With the benefit of this new information, a renewed examination of the timeline between the Nov. 8, 2016, presidential election and the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller on May 17, 2017, reveals that the FBI\u2014with the help of the Obama administration and Washington establishment figures\u2014executed a concerted campaign to oust a sitting president.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Email Reveals FBI\u2019s Plan for Danchenko<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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The newly discovered email was sent by FBI agent Kevin Helson to unknown recipients on Jan. 12, 2017. The email\u2019s heading reads \u201cPlan to Convert Danchenko into CHS.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This email is critical for several reasons. It shows that the FBI intended to hide Steele\u2019s main source behind CHS status after they had previously discovered Steele couldn\u2019t back up the claims in his dossier despite their offer of $1 million to him for any corroboration. As a CHS, Danchenko also would be shielded from any external investigations\u2014including those of Congress.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Of equal importance, Helson\u2019s email also proves that the FBI planned to convert Danchenko into a CHS before the FBI had even interviewed Danchenko. Had they thought the dossier was real, there would have been no reason to hide Danchenko. Instead, the FBI would\u2019ve been touting the existence of a crucial source.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The FBI proceeded to make him a CHS despite interviewing him several weeks later, in late January 2017, when Danchenko disavowed the claims in the dossier, saying during his interview that it was based on rumors and bar talk made in jest.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It had previously been assumed that the FBI only decided to make Danchenko a CHS after he had been interviewed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This move by the FBI also directly coincided with President Barack Obama\u2019s wishes expressed during a Jan. 5 White House intelligence briefing on the dossier that he wanted to withhold information from the incoming Trump administration.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Epoch<\/strong>\n
Russian analyst Igor Danchenko is pursued by journalists as he departs the Albert V. Bryan U.S. Courthouse after being arraigned, in Alexandria, Va.,\u00a0on Nov. 10, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/strong><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

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That the efforts to effectively hide Danchenko started even before Danchenko had disavowed the dossier is critical evidence of the early commencement of the FBI\u2019s efforts against Trump. Had the FBI not done everything it could to conceal Danchenko\u2019s existence by bestowing him with CHS status, the truth about the dossier would have likely been revealed and the effort to oust Trump would have collapsed.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lastly, the plan to grant CHS status to Danchenko coincides with a remarkable sequence of events that took place on the same day Helson\u2019s email was sent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Establishing Trump\u2013Russia Collusion Narrative<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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To fully understand the significance of the FBI granting CHS status to a person the agency hadn\u2019t yet spoken to, we need to go back to Election Day.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The unexpected election of Trump on Nov. 8, 2016, prompted an unprecedented response from the intelligence community and Washington establishment. The effort to undermine Trump and his administration began almost immediately after his victory.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On Nov. 9, 2016, FBI agent\u00a0Peter <\/a>Strzok\u00a0and FBI lawyer Lisa Page\u00a0exchanged texts\u00a0that referred to a \u201csecret society\u201d the day after Trump\u2019s victory.\u00a0Page texted Strzok\u00a0saying, \u201cMaybe this should be the first meeting of the Secret Society.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Strzok responded to Page saying, \u201cToo hard to explain here. Election related.\u201d The next day, Strzok texted Page saying, \u201cBill [Priestap, head of FBI Counterintelligence] just sent a two hour invite to talk strategy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In early December 2016, the CIA\u00a0told congressional leaders\u00a0that \u201cRussia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency,\u201d a claim that was a crucial convergence point between the FBI\u2019s and CIA\u2019s narratives. Although then-CIA Director John Brennan had been working behind the scenes by pushing information to the FBI, up to that point, it had been primarily the FBI driving the collusion narrative\u2014for instance, by spying on Trump campaign aide Carter Page through a Foreign Intelligence SurveillanceAct (FISA) warrant.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The CIA\u2019s congressional briefings prompted Obama to direct the CIA, the FBI, and the National Security Agency (NSA) to draft an intelligence community assessment (ICA) on Russian interference in the election. While the\u00a0reported date\u00a0of Obama\u2019s order was Dec. 9, 2016, the actual order may have been given much earlier, as both the CIA and FBI had been in the process of preparing reports on Russian interference.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Epoch<\/strong>\n
Former Director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan testifies before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 23, 2017. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/strong><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

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The FBI quickly jumped on board with Obama\u2019s ICA plan. Priestap and special agent Jonathan Moffa were assigned to the ICA project on behalf of the FBI. However, the FBI didn\u2019t appear to be interested in presenting an analytical work product. Their real goal appeared to be the inclusion of the Steele dossier in the ICA, which would give the dossier much-needed credibility. Up to that point, no media organization had published the dossier or any of its lurid allegations. If Trump was to be unseated, the dossier\u2019s breathless claims needed to be made public.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Notably, as Durham revealed during Danchenko\u2019s trial, by that time, the FBI already knew that the dossier was completely uncorroborated. On Oct. 3, 2016, the FBI offered dossier author Christopher Steele up to $1 million to provide any evidence that would substantiate his allegations against Trump. Steele wasn\u2019t able to do so.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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However, instead of ending its investigation, the FBI escalated efforts to tie Trump to the Russia collusion narrative. The FBI\u2019s offer of $1 million to Steele for corroboration would later be hidden from Congress, congressional inquiries, Trump officials, and the courts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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According to a\u00a02019 Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General report\u00a0on the FBI\u2019s abuses in the Carter Page FISA warrant case, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe personally pushed his agents on Dec. 16 to include the dossier in the ICA. McCabe\u2019s demand preceded the identification of Steele\u2019s primary sub-source. As Durham reported last week, that sub-source, Danchenko, who, by his own account, was responsible for at least 80 percent of the dossier, was identified by the FBI a few days later on Dec. 20.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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When FBI agent Moffa asked McCabe whether to limit what was included to \u201cinformation concerning Russian election interference or to also include allegations against candidate Trump,\u201d McCabe told him to include the allegations, \u201cdue to concerns over possible Russian attempts to blackmail Trump.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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That was an early indication that, contrary to what FBI Director\u00a0James Comey\u00a0would later repeatedly claim, the FBI was already targeting Trump personally in December 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On Dec. 19, lead counterespionage agent Peter Strzok texted Lisa Page, who was McCabe\u2019s personal legal counsel, that he needed to talk to someone \u201cabout using his [expletive]\u201d in the ICA. The name of the person that Strzok wanted to talk to is redacted and remains unknown.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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After Danchenko was identified on Dec. 20, the FBI for the first time told the CIA that it wanted to include the dossier in the ICA.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On Dec. 28, according to records published by the Senate Intelligence Committee, Comey personally made a push with both the CIA and the NSA for the dossier to be included in the ICA. Comey vouched that Steele was a \u201ccredible person with a source and sub-source network in position to report on such things.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Comey didn\u2019t mention that Steele had failed to back up his information, even after being offered $1 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With Comey\u2019s push, the other two agencies tasked with producing the ICA\u2014the CIA and NSA\u2014agreed to include a two-page summary of the dossier at the back of the official report from the three agencies. This had the effect that Comey and McCabe had sought\u2014to legitimize the dossier.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On Jan. 5, 2017, top intelligence officials, including Comey, Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and NSA Director Michael Rogers briefed Obama on the ICA report.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington on Dec. 11, 2019. (Charlotte Cuthbertson\/The Epoch Times)<\/strong><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

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Following the official meeting, Comey stayed behind to brief Obama on the dossier. It was at this meeting that Obama stated that he wanted his team to be \u201cmindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia\u201d with the incoming Trump administration.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The next day, Comey and other officials including Clapper briefed President-elect Trump and his national security team on the ICA. During this portion of the meeting, the Steele dossier was mentioned in passing.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A member of Trump\u2019s team\u2014reported to have been Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn\u2014asked whether the FBI had\u00a0dug into\u00a0Steele\u2019s sub-sources. If the questions were indeed posed by Flynn, it may have precipitated his subsequent demise at the hands of Comey. Once again, Comey would stay behind to brief Trump more fully on the dossier.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Comey\u00a0would later tell CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper\u00a0that he only briefed Trump on the \u201csalacious\u201d parts of the dossier because \u201cthat was the part that the leaders of the intelligence community agreed he needed to be told about.\u201d News of the intelligence briefing to Trump was leaked hours later to the media.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Efforts Begin in Earnest After January 2017 Briefings<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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On Jan. 3, 2017, Attorney General Loretta Lynch signed\u00a0Section 2.3 of Executive Order 12333\u00a0into effect. This unprecedented new order significantly relaxed longstanding limits on dissemination of information gathered by the NSA\u2019s powerful surveillance operations, granting broad latitude to the Intelligence Community with regard to interagency sharing of information.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On Jan. 10, 2017, following his Jan. 5 briefing to Obama and his abbreviated briefing to Trump on Jan. 6,\u00a0Comey testified\u00a0before the Senate Intelligence Committee. During the hearing, Comey was asked by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) if the FBI was investigating relationships between associates of Trump and the Russian government. Comey stated that he could neither confirm nor deny an active investigation, thereby setting the media frenzy of Trump\u2013Russia collusion into motion. The Steele dossier would be released by BuzzFeed on the same day.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The day after Comey\u2019s testimony, the Senate Intelligence Committee opened an investigation into Russian interference and the Trump campaign.\u00a0Its report\u00a0proved to be politically driven and much of it has been discredited.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Concerned over increasing leaks to the media, Trump had actually\u00a0conducted a sting\u00a0of sorts during his briefing from top intelligence officials on the ICA and the Steele dossier on Jan. 6, 2017. In order to identify the people leaking classified information to the press, Trump did not tell his staff that IC officials, including Clapper and Comey, were about to brief him.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As noted earlier, after the briefing, information from the meeting was leaked almost immediately to the press\u2014leading Trump to conclude the leaks were coming directly from officials within the Intelligence Community. Trump disclosed this sequence of events during a\u00a0Jan. 11, 2017, press conference. After receiving a call from Trump regarding the leaks, Clapper was forced to issue a\u00a0statement\u00a0condemning intelligence community leaks following Trump\u2019s unexpected press conference.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Trump<\/strong>\n
Former President Donald Trump enters the stage at a \u201cSave America Rally\u201d to support Republican candidates running for state and federal offices in the state of Ohio at the Covelli Centre in Youngstown, Ohio, on Sept. 17, 2022. (Jeff Swensen\/Getty Images)<\/strong><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

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Despite Clapper\u2019s official condemnation of leaks, according to a March 22, 2018,\u00a0House intelligence report, Clapper later admitted \u201cthat he confirmed the existence of the dossier to the media,\u201d acknowledged discussing the \u201cdossier with CNN journalist Jake Tapper,\u201d and conceded that he might have spoken with other journalists about the same topic. Crucially, the report noted that \u201cClapper\u2019s discussion with Tapper took place in early January 2017,\u201d following the briefing by leaders of the Intelligence Community to Obama and Trump on the Steele dossier.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Leaks from the Intelligence Community would remain prevalent throughout Trump\u2019s term.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Events on Day Danchenko Was to Be Made CHS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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On Jan. 12, 2017, the same day that Helson sent his email regarding Danchenko, and just a day after Trump\u2019s surprise press conference, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz\u00a0announced his initiation\u00a0of a review of actions taken by the FBI in the leadup to the 2016 presidential election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It isn\u2019t known whether Horowitz was ever briefed about Danchenko\u2019s CHS status or the million-dollar bounty. His report mentions neither. By design or by accident,\u00a0Horowitz\u2019s investigation\u00a0effectively tied up any outside probes into the FBI\u2019s actions for two years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It was on the same day, Jan. 12, that Flynn\u2019s\u00a0Dec. 29, 2016, call<\/a>\u00a0with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak was leaked to David Ignatius at The Washington Post. The leaker was never found, possibly because the leak came from within the FBI itself. Ignatius\u2019s article, which further pushed the Trump\u2013Russia collusion narrative, portrayed Flynn as undermining Obama\u2019s fresh Russian sanctions during his call with Kislyak.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The article also raised the possibility that Flynn had violated the\u00a0Logan Act, an obscure, 200-year-old law. Interestingly, it was Vice President Joe Biden who first suggested using the Logan Act against Flynn at the Jan. 5 White House meeting with Comey.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Flynn, who is believed to have been the person who asked Comey probing questions about the dossier\u2019s sources, appears to have been the Intelligence Community\u2019s first target in its effort to oust Trump. On Jan. 19, 2017, the day before Trump\u2019s inauguration, Obama\u2019s top intelligence and law-enforcement deputies\u00a0met to talk about<\/a>\u00a0Flynn\u2019s conversation with Kislyak. Flynn would be sworn in as Trump\u2019s national security adviser on Jan. 22, 2017, and was subjected to an ambush interview by Strzok at the behest of Comey two days later.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Comey later\u00a0bragged\u00a0about the Flynn ambush having been his brainchild.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Epoch<\/strong>\n
Retired Lt. Gen.Michael Flynn, a former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, departs the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse following a pre-sentencing hearing, in Washington, on July 10, 2018. (Aaron P. Bernstein\/Getty Images)<\/strong><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

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Acting Attorney General Sally Yates increased the pressure on the Trump administration regarding Flynn through a series of conversations with White House counsel Don McGahn. Yates\u00a0told McGahn\u00a0that she believed that \u201cFlynn was compromised with respect to the Russians.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Flynn resigned on Feb. 13, 2017, the same day that Yates\u2019s claim\u00a0was <\/a>published by The Washington Post. In 2020, declassified transcripts of Flynn\u2019s call with Kislyak revealed that Flynn never once talked about sanctions. Just like the dossier, the charges against Flynn had been fabricated.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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One other event transpired on Jan. 12, the first renewal of the Carter Page FISA warrant, which had been based on the fabricated Steele dossier and claimed that Steele\u2019s source was Russia-based when, in reality, he was a former Brookings Institution employee living in Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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FBI Escalates Probe Despite Dossier Disavowal<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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During a three-day period at the end of January 2017, Danchenko was eventually interviewed by the FBI. Danchenko said there were major inconsistencies between what he told Steele and what was in the dossier. Danchenko told the FBI that he had passed on bar talk and rumors to Steele and never intended for completely unverified information to be used in a dossier. He also admitted that he had never met the dossier\u2019s key source who was alleged to be responsible for every major allegation against Trump, including the \u201cwell-developed conspiracy of cooperation\u201d between Trump and the Kremlin, that Russia passed hacked DNC emails to Wikileaks, and the infamous pee tape story.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Because Danchenko was given CHS status by the FBI, proof that the Steele dossier was fabricated was completely shielded from congressional and other investigations. We know with certainty that Danchenko formally received official CHS status no later than March 2017, but we now also know from the newly discovered unused trial exhibit that the FBI had planned to extend CHS status to Danchenko well before he was even interviewed by the FBI.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Epoch<\/strong>\n
(L\u2013R) FBI Director James Comey, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and CIA Director John Brennan prepare to testify before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Feb. 25, 2016. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/strong><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

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Efforts to ensnare Trump in a Russia collusion narrative received a major boost on Feb. 27, when former President George W. Bush proclaimed \u201cwe all need answers\u201d on the Russia collusion allegations. Bush added that he trusted Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) to decide whether a special counsel should be appointed.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Then, on March 2, Trump-appointed Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia inquiry, dealing Trump a huge blow. Sessions inexplicably failed to assess, or even ask for evidence indicating whether the inquiry was legitimate. Sessions recused himself without ever finding out about Danchenko, that he had disavowed the dossier, or that Steele had failed to provide any evidence despite being offered $1 million for doing so.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Trump hit back on March 4, when he famously wrote on Twitter that he knew that the Obama administration had spied on his campaign. Not knowing how much Trump knew, FBI leadership panicked. In direct response to the tweet, on March 6, the FBI sent three of its most senior officials\u2014McCabe, Priestap, and Strzok\u2014to brief the DOJ on the FBI\u2019s Trump investigation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Notes of the briefing, which included incoming Trump administration officials, were disclosed by Durham earlier this year revealing that the FBI failed to mention Danchenko, Danchenko\u2019s disavowal of the dossier, or the million-dollar reward to their DOJ counterparts. Instead, they made it appear as if the dossier, which they referred to as \u201cCrown reporting,\u201d had checked out and that the Russia collusion investigation was therefore going full steam ahead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Additional briefing notes from March 8, which were also exposed by Durham, show that Comey himself subsequently lied to the so-called Gang of Eight congressional leaders. Similar to the DOJ briefing, Congress wasn\u2019t told that Steele couldn\u2019t back up his dossier despite the huge reward offer, and also wasn\u2019t told about Danchenko.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The FBI\u2019s efforts culminated in Comey\u2019s March 20 public\u00a0announcement\u00a0that the Trump campaign was being investigated for Russia collusion. It was that announcement that opened the door to Mueller\u2019s appointment as special counsel. As with his previous, non-public announcements, Comey concealed that the dossier\u2014and with it the predicate for his investigation\u2014had collapsed.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Case Against Trump Based on Fabrications<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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While it\u2019s been\u00a0claimed<\/a>\u00a0by some media outlets that the dossier wasn\u2019t central to the allegations against Trump, the Intelligence Community\u2019s efforts to ensnare Trump, the Carter Page FISA application, as well as the March 6 and 8 briefing notes, all rely almost entirely on the dossier. Additionally, we know that Comey insisted that a summary of the dossier be attached to the ICA that was presented to Obama. These actions prove beyond any doubt that the case against Trump was based on a fabricated document.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The day after Comey\u2019s testimony, on March 21, then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)\u00a0met with a source. Following this meeting,\u00a0Nunes informed Trump that he believed Trump and his staff were illegally surveilled and \u201cunmasked,\u201d a process of revealing redacted names of U.S. citizens that are incidentally collected during surveillance or intelligence gathering on foreigners.\u00a0Nunes demanded\u00a0that the CIA, FBI, and NSA disclose the nature of the unlawful surveillance he had uncovered.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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For his efforts, an ethics investigation of Nunes was opened and he was forced to recuse himself from the Russia collusion investigation on April 6. The next day, the Carter Page FISA warrant was secretly renewed, proving that Nunes\u2019s claim was correct. During his entire tenure as House Intelligence Committee chairman, Nunes was never told about Danchenko, his CHS status, or the million-dollar bounty.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Former UK intelligence officer Christopher Steele in London on July 24, 2020. Steele refused an offer of $1 million from the FBI to corroborate the allegations in the 2016 dossier he produced with funding by Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign and the Democratic National Committee. (Tolga Akmen\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/strong><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

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On May 9, 2017, Trump fired Comey from his position as FBI director and McCabe became acting director. Following Comey\u2019s firing, DOJ official Bruce Ohr had a phone call with Steele, during which Steele expressed concern that \u201cthey will be exposed\u201d because of Comey\u2019s firing. Steele was undoubtedly worried that without Comey covering for him, his dossier lies would be exposed. It isn\u2019t known whether Steele was aware that the FBI had already successfully concealed Steele\u2019s collaborator, Danchenko, from any scrutiny or investigation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Several days later, on May 12, Ohr and Steele began a series of exchanges via\u00a0text message,\u00a0with Ohr conveying a request from McCabe that Steele be reengaged by the FBI.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On May 16, Comey leaked memos about Trump to The New York Times through his friend, Columbia Law School professor Daniel Richman. Comey would later acknowledge that he did so to spur the appointment of a special counsel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The next day, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein\u00a0appointed\u00a0Mueller, a former FBI director, as special counsel. As we can now see with hindsight, the FBI covered up Danchenko in early 2017. In doing so they ensured that they could continue using the fabricated Steele dossier to justify their investigation of Trump and his associates while also ensuring that no one would find out about Danchenko. In turn, the appointment of Mueller ensured that the FBI\u2019s misdeeds were covered up.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Significantly, the many efforts to ensnare Trump, from the framing of Flynn to the media\u2019s relentless airing of dossier smears and the Washington establishment\u2019s push for a special counsel, couldn\u2019t have happened unless Danchenko was kept hidden by the FBI. It was perhaps the most critical part of the effort and, as we have now learned, it happened much earlier than had been known.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(L\u2013R) Former FBI agent Peter Strzok; former FBI Director James Comey; and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. (Getty Images\/Illustration by The Epoch Times)<\/p>\n

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