So, the Danchenko indictment has turned out to be a bigger bit of news than anticipated. The reason it’s a big story, from my point of view is as follows. We’ve known for a long time that Danchenko was central to the concoction of the Steele dossier. Nevertheless, the major blame for what was done with the “dossier” rests with people higher up the ladder, up the Clinton Russia Hoax hierarchy, than Danchenko. What’s big in what we’ve learned from the indictment is that among other reasons for Danchenko’s lies to the FBI was his desire to cover up the key role of a Clinton campaign “advisor”,
Maria B. just had Ratcliffe on, about docs in which Brennan tells of telling Obama of Hillary's role in the Steele BS, and that Ratcliffe's talks with Durham mean that busts of the involved players are on the table.
< Ratcliffe also declassified two heavily redacted, Russia-related documents, including handwritten notes from former CIA Director John Brennan, showing he briefed then-President Barack Obama in 2016 on an unverified Russian intelligence report which claimed Clinton planned in July 2016, on tying then-candidate Trump to Russia’s hack of the Democratic National Committee, to distract from her email scandal.
The other document was a September 2016 investigative referral from the CIA to now-fired FBI Director James Comey and now-fired Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Operations Peter Strzok, related to the same topic. >
I wonder if Trump will sue any/all of the Russian hoaxers (everyone involved)? As a taxpayer I would like to see all the millions wasted on hoaxer salaries, Mueller investigation, hearings, Andy McCabe's pension, etc.
Not that I would ever suggest that the Clintons have anything to do with a routine suicide or that the Clintons would possibly be implicated in a criminal fraud conspiracy regarding the Russia Hoax ;-)
"BREAKING: @HumanEvents is told Strobe Talbott lawyered up recently, as well as several members of the Clinton campaign such as Robby Mook and Jennifer Palmieri"
Yes, I saw that. Not too surprising, really. These are all Clinton insiders, and would likely have had contact with at least Elias and Sussmann, possibly Dolan, too.
Especially Talbot, who floated his own version of a Dossier, echoing many of the the same hoaxed allegations that Steele put in his fictional Dossier, except Talbot's was being floated around in the Spring of 2016.
If recollection serves, Talbot's dossier included the allegation about a Trump campaign back-channel to Putin, foreshadowing the Alfa bank Hoax, and concurrent with the Orbis Document shared by Danchenko with Dolan on Kompromat & Surveillance in the Russian Banking Sector.
I'm betting Talbot's back-channel is related to the Orbis document shared with Dolan.
So the unanswered question looms large: who paid Steele to put that document together <Spring 2016?
>> "The primary subsource was introduced to STEELE and ORBIS by FIONA HILL in or around 2011," the FBI document quoted Steele as saying. Hill at the time worked with Danchenko at the Brookings Institution, a liberal think tank then run by former Clinton administration official Strobe Talbott." <<
Danchenko and Fiona Hill were both employees under Talbot at Brookings!
I recall reading some months ago that Durham subpoenaed Brookings records. That takes on new dimensions in view of these revelations.
Solomon's article also mentions that it was Fiona Hill who floated the "Russian Disinfo" limited hang-out cover story regarding where the allegations came from.
I am 100% convinced that Danchenko's Russian friends were invoked as sources to cover for the real sources of the allegation, and when the sub-sources were identified, it was clear to those involved that Danchenko's sub-sources would deny being his sources, so Hill and others began the next cover-up -- "Russian disinfo" -- Danchenko and Steele were unwitting victims of ultra Evil Vlady Putin.
But the real purpose of these rolling cover-ups of sourcing now appears to be a Herculean effort to protect Clinton Operatives -- such as Dolan -- who we are going to learn were the real sources of these names and organizations used to make the allegations against the Trump campaign.
Cody Shearer, Sidney Blumenthal, Strobe Talbot, and Chuck Dolan are some of the Clintonoids I suspect we will be hearing more about in relation to sources of details used to fabricate the allegations, along with campaign officials like Mook and Palmeiri who likely were involved in the implementation of the conspiracy to run the Russia Hoax to smear Hillary's opponent.
If true, Dolan is just the tip of that iceberg leading to the Heart of Darkness inside the Hillary Campaign
I've always believed that the Russia Hoax was hatched, at least in concept, well before Steele was taken on at Fusion GPS. Talbot is a logical participant simply because of his Russian connections as well as his status as a Clinton insider.
If I remember correctly SD was running with the theory that Steele was specifically hired by Fusion to back feed Nellie Ore's work and make it look more credible.
At one point I could quote just about any fact from this whole debacle and it's source. I've pretty much dumped the space from my brain.
If Durham is triggering massive stampedes of Clintonoids running for the nearest criminal defense lawyer, he must be getting pretty damned close to being "over the target."
Tonight, Jesse Waters filling in for Tucker Carlson outed 'Chuck' Dolan as Danchenko's source for misinformation. I doubt Chuck's bio will be up on kglobal much longer if it still is. Chuck probably never anticipated the attention he is about to receive - but not from the MSM who have their heads firmly implanted in their ...
How would Christopher Steele know that Sergey Millian's organization communicated with Alfa Bank's server on about September 9, 2016?
I speculate that someone in that organization was working for Steele secretly. Perhaps that someone sent the communication to Alfa Bank on Steele's orders.
I speculate further that, long ago, Millian figured out that this had happened and who the culprit was. I suppose that his organization employed very few people. Perhaps the culprit has even confessed to Millian and has told him a lot.
That is why Millian can make an educated guess that three of his "enemies" are to be arrested. Perhaps one of the three "enemies" is the culprit himself.
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This new indictment indicates that Millian did not participate in the plotting against Trump. On the contrary, Millian was being framed, merely because he was a Russian who clearly had done some business as an intermediary between Trump and various Russians.
.... the intelligence network being used against CLINTON comprised three elements.
* Firstly there were agents / facilitators within the Democratic Party structure itself;
* secondly Russian émigré and associated offensive cyber operators based in the U.S.;
* and thirdly, state- sponsored cyber operatives working in Russia.
All three elements had played an important role to date. ...
[end quote]
Report 96 was written sometime between July 19 and 26, 2016.
If Millian was being framed as a key figure among the "Russian émigré and associated offensive cyber operators based in the U.S.", then the framing of Millian began sometime before late July 2016.
Millian was not just a Russian émigré. He was being framed as an "offensive cyber operator", and so eventually his organization would be framed for communicating with Alfa Bank.
I speculate that some Russian-American was recruited to participate in this framing. Perhaps the culprit was recruited in place, while already was working for Millian. Or perhaps the culprit was recruited and then was infiltrated into Millian's organization.
=====
In the years since then, Millian surely has been questioned many times by investigators, including Durham's team. The questions surely gave Millian much insight into how he had been framed.
>>> Danchenko’s arrest is a seismic development and confirmed Durham is far from done with his investigation.
Danchenko is not someone who immediately comes across as an apex defendant — the highest target in an investigation. He was a key source used by others to advance false or unsubstantiated claims against Trump. He is the type of defendant that prosecutors pressure to flip against those who retained him or used him in this effort. In other words, he strikes me as someone who can be used as a building block to apex defendants.
Potential apex targets above him in the investigation range from Steele himself to Clinton general counsel Marc Elias to Clinton campaign officials. <<<
Another tiresome question: what is the significance of para 25 in the indictment, specifically where it mentions Danchenko shared an Orbis document by email attachment with Dolan, entitled: Intelligence Briefing Note: Kompromat and Nazdor in Russian Banking Sector" (this is late April 2016)?
I do not see where this ties into anything that Durham later asserts, so why is it there at all?
I think it's just part of the string of paragraphs in Part D that are intended to show close cooperation between Danchenko and Dolan and to tie them both in to Steele's Orbis. All working together. Where this could be important--speculating, but as I wrote earlier--is to show that the "dossier" was very much a product of the Clinton Campaign, not just of Danchenko. That is not being alleged as part of this indictment. For purposes of the indictment, it's all building up to the section at #57 where it discusses the "materiality" of Danchenko's lies re Dolan. Showing the close cooperation also goes to proving that Danchenko's lies wouldn't have been inadvertent. It shuts down a defense of, Oh I hardly knew the guy.
That's a reasonable explanation, but for one point: if that's all that para 25 is for -- to show the close working relationships that existed -- why would it be necessary for Durham to mention the title of the document? It would suffice to say in the indictment "they shared a "'UK Business Intel org-1' document, related to the Russian Banking sector, by email on this date."
Yet Durham jams the title of the document into the indictment, when it does not appear to serve any purpose.
What if it has relevance to a larger conspiracy that is otherwise not alluded to yet? If Durham copied/pasted the text for this indictment out of a draft conspiracy indictment in which the title WOULD be relevant, that would explain why it's here -- they simply forgot to delete it as superfluous to the extant charges.
I think the title shows that there was a specific focus included in their dealings that is relevant to the Russia Hoax. For example, even though they may have discussed strictly business cooperation, this doc shows a focus outside of business that's relevant to the Russia Hoax. Again, it goes to showing that none of this was casual, of the sort of dealings that would easily forgotten.
typo on my part: the word is "nadzor" not "nazdor."
So its "Kompromat" (roughly compromising material) and "nadzor" which appears to have different meanings in different contexts, but the one that appears to fit the best, IMHO, is "surveillance."
thus: "Compromising Material and Surveillance in the Russian Banking Sector."
This Orbis report was shared with Dolan in late April 2016, by Danchenko.
Who was paying Orbis to research "blackmail and surveillance" in the Russian Banking sector?
Tantalizing possibility: is this document a draft plan to find a Russian Bank that can be set up as a Hoax conduit for Trump/Putin collusion "back channel"? That "surveillance" refers to DNS query monitoring that Joffe and pals specialized in? That "Kompromat" refers to something that could be used to create a narrative that the Trump campaign was in bed with Putin to win the election?
Recall the former CIA guy who said he heard from journos rumors about a "back channel" between Trump campaign and Russia in the Spring of 2016 ?
Is THAT what Durham is trolling the conspirators about?
... as of January, 2017, at the latest the top management of the Russia Hoax at the FBI knew that the “dossier” was—for purposes of its use in affidavits—hopeless bullsh*t.
========
The DOJ/FBI official story is that Steele's Dossier was practically insignificant in the government's investigations and actions.
Much more significant, for example, was Alexander Downer's memo about his conversation with George Papadopoulos in a London bar. Supposedly, that memo sent shock waves through the FBI leadership.
According to the official story, the Crossfire Hurricane team was not even aware of Christopher Steele and did not receive any of his Dossier reports until the last half of September 2016.
Not even the Mueller team paid any significant attention to the Dossier.
That will be the DOJ/FBI response to all of Durham's revelations about the Dossier.
Easily overlooked implication of the indictment in EDVA:
it means Durham as a Grand Jury running in EDVA as well as in DC (Sussmann's indictment.)
One so far appears to be focused on the Alfa Bank Hoax (DC) and the EDVA Grand Jury on Dossier/FISA related crimes.
There could be still other Grand Juries in other jurisdictions (IIRC, EDNY has been speculated about, due to the prosecutors brought for the Sussmann case are out of the Brooklyn USDA office in EDNY.)
The evidence continues to mount that Durham is on the move on multiple fronts in the Collusion Hoax investigation, and his pace is starting to accelerate.
Keep Sergei Millian's tweet in mind: he predicted on Friday that three of his "enemies" would be in jail soon: six days later, Danchenko was in jail.
I speculated last week that Simpson and Steele could be the other two to whom Millian was referring. Safe to say, if Millian is correct, there are at least a couple more shoes to drop before this little corner of the conspiracy is fully opened up and illuminated by Durham, and soon, we hope.
A general observation: the "speaking indictment" seems to be very narrowly circumscribed, without describing other related ongoing activities. It almost seems unnaturally narrow.
I assume it is intentional by Durham, but for what purpose?
Does it betoken a larger conspiracy of which this is a small sub-conspiracy, but which he scrupulously does not wish to reveal at the present?
Also, I get this weird sense, a nuance, as it were -- the reason for which I cannot put my finger on -- that PR Exec-1 (Dolan, Jr.,) while making a cameo appearance in the Danchenko indictment, will be playing a potentially starring role in other indictments in the near future.
The feeling I get is that it is just too much of a coincidence that Fiona Hill just happens to introduce Danchenko and Dolan, and Dolan just happens to start feeding Danchenko porridge at "just the right temperature." Dolan also curiously quickly begins to communicate directly with Danchenko's subsource-1, cutting Danchenko out of the email loop, promising to take Galkina to the State Department with him when Hillary wins (how Joffe-esque!) All the while Dolan has been a long time Clinton confidante, supporter, State campaign manager, and campaign advisor to Hillary.
When porridge arrives "not too cold, and not too hot, but just right" it reminds my of Smiley's remark about topicality always being suspect.
And sure enough, the Clintonoid Succubus, Dolan, is "fabricating" (quoting Durham) meetings that never took place, and passing them along to Danchenko, for inclusion in the Dossier.
Are we to suppose this was all a coincidence that Dolan did not further exploit for Hillary's benefit? Really?
Or, is it reasonable to suspect Hillary's campaign was fed details about Steele's PSS and possibly his SS-1 (by Sussmann? Elias?, or Simpson?) and Dolan was commissioned as a volunteer cut-out to be introduced to Danchenko so he could insinuate himself into Danchenko's network, work HIS sources directly and feed them baloney, while doing the same to Danchenko, courtesy of Fiona Hill to make the introductions. (Wasn't she also a confidante of Steele's? Now what are they odds of that?)
IOW, what other crap was Dolan injecting into Danchenko's network, on Hillary's behalf, at the direction of top campaign people or her attorneys??
Chamber President-1 is Sergei Millian. the President of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce.
Millian is part of the Alfa Bank story. According to he Horowitz report Christopher Steele told Bruce Ohr in September 2016 that an Alfa Bank server in the United States was a link between Russia and the Trump campaign and that Milllian's organization had communicated with that server on about September 9, 2016.
See my blog article "Steele's Dossier Report About Alfa Bank -- Part 2"
I'm at least pleased that someone as far in the background as Chuck Dolan is being exposed by Durham. Part of me wonders if Durham's "speaking" indictments are meant to not only serve a purpose of outlining a larger case he is building, but also to reveal as much as he can about the corruption so that if any case-building falls short, there is at least a public record of the corruption.
Maria B. just had Ratcliffe on, about docs in which Brennan tells of telling Obama of Hillary's role in the Steele BS, and that Ratcliffe's talks with Durham mean that busts of the involved players are on the table.
Is there a link for that yet?
So far only one, at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ratcliffe-expects-many-more-durham-indictments-focused-on-clinton-russia-collusion-dossier/ar-AAQqsp3 :
< Ratcliffe also declassified two heavily redacted, Russia-related documents, including handwritten notes from former CIA Director John Brennan, showing he briefed then-President Barack Obama in 2016 on an unverified Russian intelligence report which claimed Clinton planned in July 2016, on tying then-candidate Trump to Russia’s hack of the Democratic National Committee, to distract from her email scandal.
The other document was a September 2016 investigative referral from the CIA to now-fired FBI Director James Comey and now-fired Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Operations Peter Strzok, related to the same topic. >
CTH now has a post, on these Ratcliffe words about Aug. 2016.
Tx
I wonder if Trump will sue any/all of the Russian hoaxers (everyone involved)? As a taxpayer I would like to see all the millions wasted on hoaxer salaries, Mueller investigation, hearings, Andy McCabe's pension, etc.
What kind of security does a US Attorney or Special Counsel typically have afforded to him?
What are the odds that Durham winds up the next Vince Foster in Marcy Park?
I understand that Las Vegas has put odds on it.
Just saying.
Not that I would ever suggest that the Clintons have anything to do with a routine suicide or that the Clintons would possibly be implicated in a criminal fraud conspiracy regarding the Russia Hoax ;-)
FYI:
>> https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1456374944833679364 <<
"BREAKING: @HumanEvents is told Strobe Talbott lawyered up recently, as well as several members of the Clinton campaign such as Robby Mook and Jennifer Palmieri"
Now that's very interesting.
Yes, I saw that. Not too surprising, really. These are all Clinton insiders, and would likely have had contact with at least Elias and Sussmann, possibly Dolan, too.
Especially Talbot, who floated his own version of a Dossier, echoing many of the the same hoaxed allegations that Steele put in his fictional Dossier, except Talbot's was being floated around in the Spring of 2016.
If recollection serves, Talbot's dossier included the allegation about a Trump campaign back-channel to Putin, foreshadowing the Alfa bank Hoax, and concurrent with the Orbis Document shared by Danchenko with Dolan on Kompromat & Surveillance in the Russian Banking Sector.
I'm betting Talbot's back-channel is related to the Orbis document shared with Dolan.
So the unanswered question looms large: who paid Steele to put that document together <Spring 2016?
I forgot about the OTHER Talbot connection:
>> "The primary subsource was introduced to STEELE and ORBIS by FIONA HILL in or around 2011," the FBI document quoted Steele as saying. Hill at the time worked with Danchenko at the Brookings Institution, a liberal think tank then run by former Clinton administration official Strobe Talbott." <<
>>> https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/deliberate-fraud-russian-charged-lying-fbi-about-dossier <<<
Danchenko and Fiona Hill were both employees under Talbot at Brookings!
I recall reading some months ago that Durham subpoenaed Brookings records. That takes on new dimensions in view of these revelations.
Solomon's article also mentions that it was Fiona Hill who floated the "Russian Disinfo" limited hang-out cover story regarding where the allegations came from.
I am 100% convinced that Danchenko's Russian friends were invoked as sources to cover for the real sources of the allegation, and when the sub-sources were identified, it was clear to those involved that Danchenko's sub-sources would deny being his sources, so Hill and others began the next cover-up -- "Russian disinfo" -- Danchenko and Steele were unwitting victims of ultra Evil Vlady Putin.
But the real purpose of these rolling cover-ups of sourcing now appears to be a Herculean effort to protect Clinton Operatives -- such as Dolan -- who we are going to learn were the real sources of these names and organizations used to make the allegations against the Trump campaign.
Cody Shearer, Sidney Blumenthal, Strobe Talbot, and Chuck Dolan are some of the Clintonoids I suspect we will be hearing more about in relation to sources of details used to fabricate the allegations, along with campaign officials like Mook and Palmeiri who likely were involved in the implementation of the conspiracy to run the Russia Hoax to smear Hillary's opponent.
If true, Dolan is just the tip of that iceberg leading to the Heart of Darkness inside the Hillary Campaign
Possibly. Durham for sure has been poring through communication records. Also interviewing people in light of those records.
I've always believed that the Russia Hoax was hatched, at least in concept, well before Steele was taken on at Fusion GPS. Talbot is a logical participant simply because of his Russian connections as well as his status as a Clinton insider.
If I remember correctly SD was running with the theory that Steele was specifically hired by Fusion to back feed Nellie Ore's work and make it look more credible.
At one point I could quote just about any fact from this whole debacle and it's source. I've pretty much dumped the space from my brain.
Addendum: See: George Smiley -- "topicality is always suspect."
If Durham is triggering massive stampedes of Clintonoids running for the nearest criminal defense lawyer, he must be getting pretty damned close to being "over the target."
The mystery: Danchenko was granted immunity before he spoke with FBI in 2017.
Why would he then lie to investigators, which invalidates the immunity he was granted?
Was he blackmailed?
I can't think of any other reason for blowing up his own get out of jail for free card.
Tonight, Jesse Waters filling in for Tucker Carlson outed 'Chuck' Dolan as Danchenko's source for misinformation. I doubt Chuck's bio will be up on kglobal much longer if it still is. Chuck probably never anticipated the attention he is about to receive - but not from the MSM who have their heads firmly implanted in their ...
How would Christopher Steele know that Sergey Millian's organization communicated with Alfa Bank's server on about September 9, 2016?
I speculate that someone in that organization was working for Steele secretly. Perhaps that someone sent the communication to Alfa Bank on Steele's orders.
I speculate further that, long ago, Millian figured out that this had happened and who the culprit was. I suppose that his organization employed very few people. Perhaps the culprit has even confessed to Millian and has told him a lot.
That is why Millian can make an educated guess that three of his "enemies" are to be arrested. Perhaps one of the three "enemies" is the culprit himself.
======
This new indictment indicates that Millian did not participate in the plotting against Trump. On the contrary, Millian was being framed, merely because he was a Russian who clearly had done some business as an intermediary between Trump and various Russians.
Dossier Report 96 includes this passage:
[quote; reformatted]
.... the intelligence network being used against CLINTON comprised three elements.
* Firstly there were agents / facilitators within the Democratic Party structure itself;
* secondly Russian émigré and associated offensive cyber operators based in the U.S.;
* and thirdly, state- sponsored cyber operatives working in Russia.
All three elements had played an important role to date. ...
[end quote]
Report 96 was written sometime between July 19 and 26, 2016.
If Millian was being framed as a key figure among the "Russian émigré and associated offensive cyber operators based in the U.S.", then the framing of Millian began sometime before late July 2016.
Millian was not just a Russian émigré. He was being framed as an "offensive cyber operator", and so eventually his organization would be framed for communicating with Alfa Bank.
I speculate that some Russian-American was recruited to participate in this framing. Perhaps the culprit was recruited in place, while already was working for Millian. Or perhaps the culprit was recruited and then was infiltrated into Millian's organization.
=====
In the years since then, Millian surely has been questioned many times by investigators, including Durham's team. The questions surely gave Millian much insight into how he had been framed.
Now the plot against Trump seems quite sloppy and flimsy, but we must keep in mind that all the participants expected Clinton to win the election.
They did not expect that the plot ever would be subjected to persistent scrutiny by a government official with Durham's investigative powers.
Turley's take:
>> https://jonathanturley.org/2021/11/04/igor-danchenko-arrested-as-part-of-durham-investigation/ <<
>>> Danchenko’s arrest is a seismic development and confirmed Durham is far from done with his investigation.
Danchenko is not someone who immediately comes across as an apex defendant — the highest target in an investigation. He was a key source used by others to advance false or unsubstantiated claims against Trump. He is the type of defendant that prosecutors pressure to flip against those who retained him or used him in this effort. In other words, he strikes me as someone who can be used as a building block to apex defendants.
Potential apex targets above him in the investigation range from Steele himself to Clinton general counsel Marc Elias to Clinton campaign officials. <<<
I thought I said that.
Great Minds Think Alike!
Another tiresome question: what is the significance of para 25 in the indictment, specifically where it mentions Danchenko shared an Orbis document by email attachment with Dolan, entitled: Intelligence Briefing Note: Kompromat and Nazdor in Russian Banking Sector" (this is late April 2016)?
I do not see where this ties into anything that Durham later asserts, so why is it there at all?
Could this refer to Alfa bank perhaps?
It's as if Durham is dropping bread crumbs ....
I think it's just part of the string of paragraphs in Part D that are intended to show close cooperation between Danchenko and Dolan and to tie them both in to Steele's Orbis. All working together. Where this could be important--speculating, but as I wrote earlier--is to show that the "dossier" was very much a product of the Clinton Campaign, not just of Danchenko. That is not being alleged as part of this indictment. For purposes of the indictment, it's all building up to the section at #57 where it discusses the "materiality" of Danchenko's lies re Dolan. Showing the close cooperation also goes to proving that Danchenko's lies wouldn't have been inadvertent. It shuts down a defense of, Oh I hardly knew the guy.
That's a reasonable explanation, but for one point: if that's all that para 25 is for -- to show the close working relationships that existed -- why would it be necessary for Durham to mention the title of the document? It would suffice to say in the indictment "they shared a "'UK Business Intel org-1' document, related to the Russian Banking sector, by email on this date."
Yet Durham jams the title of the document into the indictment, when it does not appear to serve any purpose.
What if it has relevance to a larger conspiracy that is otherwise not alluded to yet? If Durham copied/pasted the text for this indictment out of a draft conspiracy indictment in which the title WOULD be relevant, that would explain why it's here -- they simply forgot to delete it as superfluous to the extant charges.
Or, perhaps, he included it to "shake the tree"?
I think the title shows that there was a specific focus included in their dealings that is relevant to the Russia Hoax. For example, even though they may have discussed strictly business cooperation, this doc shows a focus outside of business that's relevant to the Russia Hoax. Again, it goes to showing that none of this was casual, of the sort of dealings that would easily forgotten.
typo on my part: the word is "nadzor" not "nazdor."
So its "Kompromat" (roughly compromising material) and "nadzor" which appears to have different meanings in different contexts, but the one that appears to fit the best, IMHO, is "surveillance."
thus: "Compromising Material and Surveillance in the Russian Banking Sector."
This Orbis report was shared with Dolan in late April 2016, by Danchenko.
Who was paying Orbis to research "blackmail and surveillance" in the Russian Banking sector?
Tantalizing possibility: is this document a draft plan to find a Russian Bank that can be set up as a Hoax conduit for Trump/Putin collusion "back channel"? That "surveillance" refers to DNS query monitoring that Joffe and pals specialized in? That "Kompromat" refers to something that could be used to create a narrative that the Trump campaign was in bed with Putin to win the election?
Recall the former CIA guy who said he heard from journos rumors about a "back channel" between Trump campaign and Russia in the Spring of 2016 ?
Is THAT what Durham is trolling the conspirators about?
... as of January, 2017, at the latest the top management of the Russia Hoax at the FBI knew that the “dossier” was—for purposes of its use in affidavits—hopeless bullsh*t.
========
The DOJ/FBI official story is that Steele's Dossier was practically insignificant in the government's investigations and actions.
Much more significant, for example, was Alexander Downer's memo about his conversation with George Papadopoulos in a London bar. Supposedly, that memo sent shock waves through the FBI leadership.
According to the official story, the Crossfire Hurricane team was not even aware of Christopher Steele and did not receive any of his Dossier reports until the last half of September 2016.
Not even the Mueller team paid any significant attention to the Dossier.
That will be the DOJ/FBI response to all of Durham's revelations about the Dossier.
FYI:
>> https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1456338114071384074 <<
FYI:
>> https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1456334781977964554 <<
Fiona Hill thanking Dolan in her book ....
Easily overlooked implication of the indictment in EDVA:
it means Durham as a Grand Jury running in EDVA as well as in DC (Sussmann's indictment.)
One so far appears to be focused on the Alfa Bank Hoax (DC) and the EDVA Grand Jury on Dossier/FISA related crimes.
There could be still other Grand Juries in other jurisdictions (IIRC, EDNY has been speculated about, due to the prosecutors brought for the Sussmann case are out of the Brooklyn USDA office in EDNY.)
The evidence continues to mount that Durham is on the move on multiple fronts in the Collusion Hoax investigation, and his pace is starting to accelerate.
Keep Sergei Millian's tweet in mind: he predicted on Friday that three of his "enemies" would be in jail soon: six days later, Danchenko was in jail.
I speculated last week that Simpson and Steele could be the other two to whom Millian was referring. Safe to say, if Millian is correct, there are at least a couple more shoes to drop before this little corner of the conspiracy is fully opened up and illuminated by Durham, and soon, we hope.
Cross-post from earlier thread:
A general observation: the "speaking indictment" seems to be very narrowly circumscribed, without describing other related ongoing activities. It almost seems unnaturally narrow.
I assume it is intentional by Durham, but for what purpose?
Does it betoken a larger conspiracy of which this is a small sub-conspiracy, but which he scrupulously does not wish to reveal at the present?
Also, I get this weird sense, a nuance, as it were -- the reason for which I cannot put my finger on -- that PR Exec-1 (Dolan, Jr.,) while making a cameo appearance in the Danchenko indictment, will be playing a potentially starring role in other indictments in the near future.
The feeling I get is that it is just too much of a coincidence that Fiona Hill just happens to introduce Danchenko and Dolan, and Dolan just happens to start feeding Danchenko porridge at "just the right temperature." Dolan also curiously quickly begins to communicate directly with Danchenko's subsource-1, cutting Danchenko out of the email loop, promising to take Galkina to the State Department with him when Hillary wins (how Joffe-esque!) All the while Dolan has been a long time Clinton confidante, supporter, State campaign manager, and campaign advisor to Hillary.
When porridge arrives "not too cold, and not too hot, but just right" it reminds my of Smiley's remark about topicality always being suspect.
And sure enough, the Clintonoid Succubus, Dolan, is "fabricating" (quoting Durham) meetings that never took place, and passing them along to Danchenko, for inclusion in the Dossier.
Are we to suppose this was all a coincidence that Dolan did not further exploit for Hillary's benefit? Really?
Or, is it reasonable to suspect Hillary's campaign was fed details about Steele's PSS and possibly his SS-1 (by Sussmann? Elias?, or Simpson?) and Dolan was commissioned as a volunteer cut-out to be introduced to Danchenko so he could insinuate himself into Danchenko's network, work HIS sources directly and feed them baloney, while doing the same to Danchenko, courtesy of Fiona Hill to make the introductions. (Wasn't she also a confidante of Steele's? Now what are they odds of that?)
IOW, what other crap was Dolan injecting into Danchenko's network, on Hillary's behalf, at the direction of top campaign people or her attorneys??
Chamber President-1 is Sergei Millian. the President of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce.
Millian is part of the Alfa Bank story. According to he Horowitz report Christopher Steele told Bruce Ohr in September 2016 that an Alfa Bank server in the United States was a link between Russia and the Trump campaign and that Milllian's organization had communicated with that server on about September 9, 2016.
See my blog article "Steele's Dossier Report About Alfa Bank -- Part 2"
http://people-who-did-not-see.blogspot.com/2021/10/steeles-dossier-report-about-alfa-bank.html
It looks like Millian was being framed for some reason.
Probably because he was a Russian national that did business with Trump. I checked him out on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Millian
I'm at least pleased that someone as far in the background as Chuck Dolan is being exposed by Durham. Part of me wonders if Durham's "speaking" indictments are meant to not only serve a purpose of outlining a larger case he is building, but also to reveal as much as he can about the corruption so that if any case-building falls short, there is at least a public record of the corruption.