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FBI intel analyst tells Durham agency offered Steele $1M to corroborate dossier
Revelation emerged Tuesday in federal trial of Russian information analyst Igor Danchenko, who is charged with lying to the FBI.
By: Just The News, October 12, 2022:
ADVERTISEMENTAn FBI analyst told Special Counsel John Durham on Tuesday in federal court that the agency offered former British spy Christopher Steele “up to $1 million” to corroborate evidence in his now-discredited dossier that was central to a federal investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.
The revelation appears to show the FBI, according to the testimony from intelligence analyst Brian Auten, had insufficient solid evidence for the FISA warrant for Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in its investigation and used uncorroborated information to move forward with the probe.
Auten said that Steele never got the money because he wasn’t able to prove the allegations.
Durham asked Auten, “On October 21, 2016 (the date of the Carter Page FISA application) did you have any information to corroborate that information?”
“No,” Auten replied.
ADVERTISEMENTThe FBI analyst also said that the bureau contacted other intelligence agencies regarding the specific allegations in the dossier, but none were able to corroborate them.
Auten is the first of seven witnesses being called in the trial, which is expected to last two weeks.
Opening arguments began Tuesday in the trial of Russian information analyst Igor Danchenko. Federal prosecutors are alleging the defendant fabricated and concealed sources in talking to the FBI about the Trump campaign-Russia collusion matters.
Danchenko, who supplied information to the now-discredited Steele dossier, is on trial for allegedly lying to the FBI.
Prosecutors laid out five counts against Danchencko, with the first focusing on whether he talked to Democrat operative Charles Dolan about the dossier, which sought to smear and discredit Trump amid his 2016 presidential bid.
The defense team in its opening arguments disputed the prosecution’s account regarding the nature and matter of the conversations.
The sides on Tuesday also disputed the facts about an alleged call Danchenko suggested he received from a Belarusian-born businessman named Sergei Millian, who at the time was serving as president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce, and whether information in the dossier was indeed from Millian.
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