Briefly Noted: Correction Re The Clinton Dossier

Last night, at the end of a busy day, I got a bit sloppy—for which I apologize. Stephen McIntyre—a well known figure on Twitter on a multitude of subjects, including the Russia Hoax—brought this to my attention. I had stated “Nellie Ohr was the real author of most of the Steele “Dossier”,” baldly and without qualification. The Russia Hoax is one of those topics concerning which we sometimes forget what we knew. This was one of those instances. I was distracted by the main point I was concerned with, namely the involvement of the British intelligence services in the Russia Hoax. McIntyre pointed out the deep involvement of Igor Danchenko in the production of the “dossier”. I had been aware of that but, being in a hurry, I went right past that. In fact, I had, in the past, quoted McIntyre on precisely that topic—note my insertion of Danchenko’s name in my original post. Note also my preoccupation with the bigger picture in those earlier days:

This brief tweet (below) by Stephen McIntyre hints at a web of connections involving Christopher Steele's supposed primary source for his fictional "dossier" and a variety of Deep State actors whose history would lead one to suspect that their views would be antithetical to those of Trump. Primary among those actors is Fiona Hill--a former National Security Council staffer under H. R. McMaster who also testified against President Trump's interests in the fake impeachment hearings. Further, Hill worked for George Soros' Open Society Foundation from 2000 - 2006:

not long ago, I saw a tweet that quoted an article in which Fiona Hill had been approached by Steele earlier in 2016 trying to contact a person who now appears to be PSS [Danchenko]. Can anyone give me link to tweet or article.

That Fiona Hill was acquainted with Christopher Steele and held him in high regard is well known, as is the fact that Hill was in touch with Steele during the 2016 election campaign. Hill is also very familiar with Igor Danchenko--they were colleagues at the Brookings Institute. It would therefore be natural enough for Steele to go through Hill to contact Danchenko.

The connections of these various Deep State actors to Steele and Danchenko as well as to Soros is tantalizing.

This link will take you to a list of most of my previous posts that refer to Danchenko.

The Bull Durham Non-Report picks up on just a bit of this, but glosses over Danchenko’s connections to put the emphasis on Nellie Ohr. Paul Sperry focuses on Nellie Ohr, whose important role is still shrouded in some secrecy, likely due to her CIA connections. In Durham’s account, as summarized by Sperry, we see the interaction of the several individuals involved in the production of the “dossier”:

Ex-DOJ Official and Wife Had Bigger Roles in Dossier Than Known

Here is the portion from Sperry’s article that draws Danchenko into the “dossier” circle:

Durham suggests Nellie Ohr planted the seeds of sourcing for the most explosive allegations leveled by the dossier against Trump, including the oft-cited notion that he and his campaign were engaged in a “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” with the Kremlin. The dossier attributed this, falsely, to Millian. Durham found that the Belarusian-American realtor was never a source for the dossier and was simply invented as one, along with the allegations attributed to him.

In fact, Durham says that Millian initially wasn’t even on the radar of Steele and his dossier “collector" Igor Danchenko, a former Brookings Institution analyst who's admitted much of the information he provided Steele was alcohol-lubricated gossip. Millian was called to their attention by Nellie Ohr, who the prosecutor said “implicated" Millian through her own reports. Durham suggests Steele and Danchenko merely followed her leads.

Meanwhile, the prosecutor added, Bruce Ohr, an anti-Trump Democrat, pushed his wife’s reports that cited Millian — 12 in all — onto the Crossfire Hurricane team at FBI headquarters that was investigating Trump and his campaign for possible espionage. Agents used her reports as a source of corroboration for the Steele reports they received in the summer and fall of 2016, even though it was circular reporting.

"The reports prepared by Ohr and others at Fusion GPS were ultimately provided to Crossfire Hurricane investigators by Ohr's husband, Bruce Ohr,” according to the Durham Report.

Durham notes that Danchenko was tracking leads on Millian from Nellie Ohr within “approximately one week” of Fusion GPS retaining Steele to compile the dossier. He concludes that this “strongly supports the inference that Fusion GPS directed Steele to pursue Millian.”

As we know, Durham ultimately tried to prosecute Danchenko, but Danchenko was found Not Guilty. Meanwhile, Danchenko has prospered as an FBI source, receiving over a million dollars, including one lump sum “six figure” payout. The quoted portion in italics is from a WaPo article. It seems the FBI regarded Danchenko as a sort of Super Source:

Value as FBI source

During his trial, two FBI officials revealed that Danchenko was "an uncommonly valuable" confidential human source for several years whose role went far beyond the Steele dossier:

Helson testified that Danchenko's reports as a confidential informant were used by the FBI in 25 investigations and 40 intelligence reports during a nearly four-year period from March 2017 to October 2020.... Danchenko, the FBI agent said, was considered 'a model' informant and 'reshaped the way the U.S. even perceives threats.' Helson said that none of his previous informants had ever had as many sub-sources as Danchenko and that others at the FBI have continued to ask in recent months for Danchenko's assistance amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.^[41]

Questions for Discussion:

How does this information about Danchenko make you feel about FBI sources? Knowing that a “model informant” could continue in that role after fabricating lies that were used in a coup attempt against a POTUS? How do you feel about that kind of source “reshaping” the way the US perceives threats? How do you feel about that kind of source rendering “assistance” to the US regarding the US war on Russia?

By the way, if you read Danchenko’s bio I challenge you to find anything that would remotely suggest how he could possibly be a Super Source with a huge stable of “sub-sources.” The only hint at what he’s really about is his connection to the War On Russia crowd at US think tanks and in the upper reaches of the US Deep State—the National Security Council. Maybe his true value is like that of Chris Steele’s in the Russia Hoax. I characterized Steele as a “frontman” for the hoax, providing a connection to our Neocon valued partner, MI6. Perhaps Danchenko is a sort of “frontman”, too—providing a notional expertise on Russia on which the Neocons can hang their crackpot ideas, providing a false “credibility” as "an uncommonly valuable" confidential human source.