Bull Durham Looks Like He Might Be Swinging For the Fences Now. Durham Drops a Five Count Indictment on Igor Danchenko -- the "Primary Subsource" for the Steele "Dossier"
Shipwreckedcrew Nov 5
The Sussmann indictment was a bit of a shocker because there had been little if any suggestion — other than a couple of dated articles about Durham sniffing around the Alfa Bank issue which was the subject of a civil libel suit — that Durham was going inside the Clinton Campaign apparatus. The use of a 35 page “speaking indictment” for a single count “false statement” filed in the District of Columbia Circuit Court, with a lot of information that screamed out “I’ve got all the emails and billing records of Perkins Coie” no doubt started some phones ringing.
Clinesmith was clearly “low hanging fruit” in the sense that his misconduct was made clear by the Inspector General Report on the Four FISAs, and it was just a matter of time before Durham caught up with him.
Even the indictment of Danchenko today is not a real shocker from the perspective that it finally happened. It has been obvious since the 50+ page “EC” of the first FBI interview of Danchenko in January 2017 was made public that he had lied to the FBI in some obvious and significant ways.
But, the three taken together — with Danchenko coming last, and Durham CHOOSING to file in the Eastern District of Virginia after the first two were in the District of Columbia — start to bring a bigger picture into focus in terms of the universe that Durham has drawn a circle around.
Just because Clinesmeth pled guilty and has been sentenced does not mean his role in this drama is over. I’m certain he cooperated fully and has testified before the Grand Jury. He is a critical piece of the puzzle not because of anything he did, but because he was a witness to things more important players said and did from the origin of Crossfire Hurricane right up to the end. The Special Agents working the investigation rotated in and out, but Clinesmith was assigned to FBI HQ, and he didn’t have any other position to go back to. He was there for the entirety of the Special Counsel Office’s work. The precious little footnote in the Mueller Report went out of its way to point out “We found him here when we took over, like a lost little kitten, and we kept him around. But he wasn’t one of us.” But he was in the room when the others were talking, and he heard knew what they decided to do — and not do. That’s why he’s valuable to Durham still.
Sussmann isn’t Elias — but he’s close. Sussmann is sitting over there in the District of Columbia with a single felony count. If he doesn’t want to plead guilty and cooperate, Durham can keep feeding discovery to his lawyers and the meter will continue to run. He can watch the calendar days/weeks/months pass with a couple hundred January 6 trials ahead of him in line before he will get his turn in front of a jury. Think 2023 or later. Sussmann puts you inside the room and on the phone with many key participants in the Russian hoax hatched and engineered by the Clinton Campaign.
Also, don’t forget that Durham mentioned in the Sussmann indictment that Sussmann repeated his false statements about the Alfa Bank fraud to the CIA in Langley, Virginia. Durham could walk away from the District of Columbia indictment and proceed against Sussmann in the Eastern District of Virginia whenever he might have a reason and vehicle to do so.
Now we have Danchenko. He’s a bit of a bridge between the two worlds. With Danchenko you get Steele. With Steele, you get Bruce Ohr AND Glenn Simpson — just like Nellie Ohr. With Bruce Ohr you are back into DOJ and the FBI, and with Glenn Simpson you are back with Sussmann, Elias, and the Clinton Campaign officials like Jennifer Palmieri and Jake Sullivan.
This is like the climactic scenes in the original Ghostbusters — no one is quite sure what might happen if those streams ever cross.
I’ll save for another story a detailed analysis of the Danchenko indictment.
But some who read this may not have taken the time to read the indictment itself, or may not feel like they understand it completely. Here is a “Reader’s Digest” Version:
Danchenko was Steele’s “Primary Subsource”. Almost all the most significant “anti-Trump” false claims of Russian collusion in the various Steele Reports came from Danchenko. Danchenko sourced his information to a network of sub-sub-sources he had in Russia — friends who worked in positions where they might hear politically sensitive information.
Another player in the first part is a long-time Democrat party operative inside the Clinton circle of advisors named Charles Dolan. Dolan isn’t what you would call an “A” level Clinton player, but he’s a solid “B”. Danchenko was introduced to Dolan through his work at the Brookings Institute, a Demo-Crat party parking facility for senior bureaucrats while the GOP is in power. Dolan is a PR guy with a certain “affinity” for all things Russia — something I suspect we’ll learn more about in the weeks and months ahead. After they met, Danchenko introduced Dolan to people he knew in Russia, including a young woman who Steele claimed was one of his sub-sources. Dolan and the young woman struck up a friendship — at least that’s all we know right now.
Danchenko solicited and received information from Dolan about the Trump campaign and possible connections to Russia since Dolan did business in Russia. Dolan admitted to investigators that the information he provided to Dolan was mostly just gossip or speculation. Danchenko included Dolan’s information in what he gave to Steele, but he attributed it to the young woman sub-source.
At some point, the FBI became suspicious about this, and during a series of interviews in 2017, the FBI asked Danchenko if he knew Dolan. Danchenko admitted that he did know Dolan but claimed had never received any information from Dolan regarding Trump, and Dolan did not know about Danchenko’s work for Steele. Danchenko is charged with a “false statement” count for lying to the FBI about his connections to Dolan.
But, there seems to be a subtext to this part of the Indictment meant to communicate that a Clinton crony was behind some of the false information that ended up with the FBI and was used in the FISA application for Carter Page.
The second aspect of the indictment concerns Sergei Millian, who is a Russian-American citizen with a business connection to Trump in the real estate development industry.
Danchenko claimed that Millian was one of his sources for some of the most salacious parts of the Steele reports. When first interviewed by the FBI, Danchenko said he had met Millian in a restaurant, and Millian gave him the information in question at that meeting. Danchenko later claimed that he received a call from someone who wanted to remain anonymous, but he thought it was Millian. He claimed more information in the Steele reports came from that call.
Millian denied ever having met or talked with Danchenko and had the “receipts” to prove it. Durham was able to prove that the meeting reported by Danchenko never happened — shown by emails Danchenko sent to third parties lamenting the fact that he had not been able to meet with Millian. These emails are dated AFTER the date Danchenko told the FBI he had met with Millian. Danchenko was actually in New York on the day in question, and tried to arrange a meeting with Millian, but Millian wisely never responded.
In at least four separate interviews through 2017, Danchenko repeated the same lie about having met with and received the information from Millian that attributed to “Source E” in the Reports.
Those are the five counts of making “false statements” - one involving a denial that he obtained information from Dolan when he had, and four affirmative misrepresentations that he had obtained information from Millian when he had not.
But, from my perspective and with my experience, the bigger picture here is that Durham has drawn a circle around a wider group of people than was anticipated, and is working on multiple tracts as he continues to gather evidence that brings the Clinton campaign more closely to the center of a political dirty trick meant to derail the Trump candidacy.
Tactically, also important is the fact that Durham has now shown everyone that he is operating in the Eastern District of Virginia as well. They cannot count on the “friendly confines” of the District of Columbia for the ultimate adjudication of whatever charges might come their way.
These first three indictments are just setting the stage for an endgame.
That’s when they cross the streams.
https://www.justice.gov/sco/pr/russian-national-indicted-making-false-statements-fbi
...in case anyone wants to read the Danchenko indictment.
From the indictment:
3 Earlier that year, a U.S.-based international law firm ("Law Firm-1"), acting as counsel to the Hillary Clinton Presidential campaign (the "Clinton Campaign"), had retained a U.S.-based investigative firm ("U.S. Investigative Firm-1") to conduct research on Trump and his associates. In or about June 2016, U.S. Investigative Firm-1, in turn, retained U.K. Person-1, a former officer in a friendly foreign intelligence service ("Foreign Intelligence Service-1"), and hisU.K.-based firm ("U.K Investigative Firm-l"), to investigate Trump's purported ties to Russia.
15 From in or about 2005 through in or about 2010, DANCHENKO worked as an analyst at a Washington, D.C.-based think tank ("Think Tank-1) where he focused primarily on Russian and Eurasian geo-political matters.
16 In or about 2010, an employee of Think Tank-1 ("Think Tank Employee-1") introduced DANCHENKO to U.K. Person-1. In or about 2011, U.K. Person-1 retained DANCHENKO as a contractor at U.K. Investigative Firm-1. In his work for U.K. Investigative Firm-1, DANCHENKO focused primarily on Russian and Eurasian business risk assessment and geopolitical analysis.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.515692/gov.uscourts.vaed.515692.1.0_1.pdf (another link to the Danchenko indictment).
This information creates some new dots connecting major players in 'The Magnitsky Act Hoax' (prequel), the 'The Russia Hoax' (original) and DURHAM' (sequel).
U.K. Person-1 = Christopher Steel
U.K. Investigative Firm-1 = Orbis Business Intelligence Igor Danchenko
Think Tank-1 = Brookings Institute
Think Tank Employee-1 = Fiona Hill
Strobe Talbott
Jonathan Winer
Bill Browder
Christopher David Steele (born 24 June 1964) is a British former intelligence officer with the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1987 until his retirement in 2009. He ran the Russia desk at MI6 headquarters in London between 2006 and 2009. In 2009, he co-founded Orbis Business Intelligence, a London-based private intelligence firm. (More on Orbis below).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Steele
Brookings Institute
Its an Easter Egg Hunt ...
Lawfare is an American blog dedicated to national security issues, published by the Lawfare Institute in cooperation with the Brookings Institution.[1][2] It has received attention for articles on Donald Trump's presidency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawfare_(blog)
(in cooperation... hah!)
Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/contributors/bwittes
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2015/06/08/welcome-to-the-new-lawfare/
https://greatawakening.win/p/13zzoaAAZV/durham-ticktock---brookings-inst/
https://greatawakening.win/p/12jw8DOayE/x/c/
Fiona Hill
Hill told House lawmakers it was Brookings President Strobe Talbott who showed her the dossier. Talbott, president of Brookings from 2002 through 2017, spoke with Steele in 2016 and received a copy of the dossier before the election, Steele testified in a British court last year.
https://rumble.com/vos5tp-durham-delivers-damning-indictment-with-jim-jordan.html
Talbott was a deputy secretary of state during the Clinton administration and chairman of former Secretary of State Clinton’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. Talbott’s brother-in-law, Cody Shearer, wrote his own Trump-Russia dossier in 2016.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/dossier-critic-fiona-hill-introduced-main-source-to-steele-and-durham-says-pr-exec-1
Strobe Talbott
Following Bill Clinton's election as president, Talbott was invited into government where he served 1993-1994 managing the consequences of the Soviet breakup as Ambassador-at-Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State Warren Christopher on the New Independent States. He held the #2 job in the State Department as Deputy Secretary of State 1994-2001. After leaving government, he was for a period Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strobe_Talbott
An uninvited diner guest re Center for the Study of [Globalization]:
https://greatawakening.win/p/13zzR9xWRF/monopoly--the-most-important-vid/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_F._Matlock_Jr.
Jonathan Winer
As Winer tells it, he and Steele were old pals. They “met and became friends” in 2009, when both were in the business of selling “business intelligence,” much of it involving Russia. Winer went back to work at State in 2013, after his old Capitol Hill boss, John Kerry, had become secretary of State. But he didn’t lose track of his friend Steele—not at all. He shared, and shared, and shared Steele’s corporate intelligence work with the State Department’s Russia desk. “Over the next two years, I shared more than 100 of Steele’s reports with the Russia experts at the State Department, who continued to find them useful.” (Let’s not speculate about how much it may have been worth to Steele to be able to tell his clients that the materials they were paying for were being regularly consumed by policy-makers in Foggy Bottom.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/the-weird-tales-of-jonathan-winer
Jonathan Winer Special Envoy for Libya Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Term of Appointment: 09/2013 to present
Jonathan Winer is the State Department’s Special Envoy for Libya and Senior Advisor for MEK Resettlement. At the State Department, Mr. Winer is responsible for developing, coordinating, and implementing U.S. policy on Libya, as well as resettling Iranian persons found to be in need of international protection out of Iraq.
He was previously U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement, where he was one of the architects of U.S. international policies and strategies on promoting and harmonizing financial transparency, as well as on cross-border law enforcement issues such as cybercrime, small arms trafficking, illegal immigration, and money laundering. He initiated the establishment of International Law Enforcement Academies in Bangkok and Gaborone and served as the first General Secretary of the Global Forum on Corruption.
Mr. Winer previously served for 10 years as counsel and principal legislative assistant to then-U.S. Senator John F. Kerry. In November 1999, Mr. Winer received a distinguished honor award from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for his service at the State Department. The award stated that "he created the capacity of the Department and the U.S. government to deal with international crime and criminal justice as important foreign policy functions," and that "the scope and significance of his achievements are virtually unprecedented for any single official."
https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/bureau/240474.htm
BILL BROWDER / RED NOTICE (Chapter 32, page 289, para 2):
"I made several appointments for early March 2010 in Washington, D.C., arriving on the second of the month. My first meeting was with Jonathan Winer, a top international criminal lawyer. Before going into private practice, Jonathan had been the deputy assistant secretary of state for narcotics and law enforcement - commonly referred to in Washington as the 'DASS for drugs and thugs.' He'd been responsible for U.S. foreign policy regarding narco-traffickers and the Russian mafia. He'd been effective and a real tough customer."
More about Bill Browder and Jonathan Winer:
https://greatawakening.win/p/13zzaRdx2I/ive-got-a-red-hot-theory-on-why-/
https://patriots.win/p/3s3BsAL/sean-davis-dem-impeachment-debac/
Other fun facts..
In May of 2018 I did some research on Steele's private intelligence firm Orbis Business Intelligence Limited. Here is a precis of the result:
03/16/09 Orbis Business Intelligence Limited incorporated.
(Steele, Christopher Parker Burrows, a solicitor, and a business consultant)
07/19/10 Orbis Business Intelligence Limited incorporated.
(a re-incorporation was required when the solicitor and the consultant resign, appears to be a normal procedure for business start up under British law)
04/23/15 Walsingham Training Limited incorporated
(all 100 shares of stock owned by Orbis Business Intelligence Limited)
01/19/16 Chawton Holdings Limited 1st notice to dissolve.
04/05/16 Chawton Holdings Limited 2nd notice to dissolve.
06/07/17 Walsingham Partners Limited (name change of Walsingham Training
06/23/17 Chawton Holdings Limited incorporated
(1st & 2nd notice to dissolve in 2016 was process to dissolve a company that had been "dormant" for years, and the 1 year wait required before name could be assigned to a new company - so no confusion legally between old and new company)
06/23/17 All 100 shares Walsingham Partners Limited stock transferred to Chowton Holdings Limited. (note this is done the same day Chowton incorprated - this information is entered from the 04/23/18 Notification - inserted into timeline for chronological purposed only)
09/05/2017 Wheldrake Advisors Limited incorporated.
(Christopher Parker Burrows sole owner all 100 shares of stock)
04/23/18 Notification filed of stock transfer from Orbis Business International Limited to Chawton Holdings Limited.
04/23/18 Notification filed informing Orbis Business International Limited no longer holds Walsingham Partners Limited stock.
Two observations:
By British law the 04/23/18 notification of the transfer of Walsingham Partners stock from Obris Business International to Chawton Holdings must be made within 1 year of the transfer. Steele and Burrows milked it. Question is why. Overlaying the incorporation, name changes, stock transfer and notification history with the Russia Hoax timeline might be both interesting and enlightening.
Secondly, the hubris of Christopher Steele being a part owner of a company named Walsingham Partners is hubris defined.
Sir Francis Walsingham (c. 1532 – 6 April 1590) was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 20 December 1573 until his death and is popularly remembered as her "spymaster".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Walsingham
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