The FBI’s lack of judgment and simple ethics continues to astound. The latest example came Tuesday, in a report by JustTheNews.com.
According to JTN, in order to prove that President Donald Trump was in bed with Kremlin operatives, the FBI crawled into bed with a Russian businessman connected to Moscow’s intelligence services.
More incredibly, the FBI kept him on the federal payroll for three years – long after agents knew the info he had provided about Trump’s alleged connection to the Kremlin was bogus.
The revelation came in federal court records filed by Special Prosecutor John Durham, who is probing the origins of the Russia-collusion hoax against Trump. Durham is prosecuting Russian businessman Igor Danchenko on multiple counts of lying to the FBI.
According to JTN, Durham’s filing “means that the FBI first fired former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, the author of the Hillary Clinton-funded dossier, as a human source in November 2016 for having unauthorized contacts with the news media. And it then turned around a few months later and hired Steele’s primary informer to work with the bureau even after determining some of Danchenko’s statements in the Steele dossier were uncorroborated or exaggerated.”
“Even more stunning,” the report continued, “Durham confirmed that the FBI had concerns about Danchenko’s ties to Russian intelligence a decade earlier, opening up a counterintelligence probe on him after learning he was trying to buy classified information from the Obama administration.”
Or stated differently, the same FBI that recently raided Trump’s home and accused him of wrongfully keeping classified information was willing to hire a guy who was connected to Russian intelligence officers and attempted to bribe a source to obtain U.S. classified documents.
Moreover, the FBI paid him as an informant for more than three years, from March 2017 to October 2020 – long after Robert Mueller’s investigation revealed there was no collusion between Trump and the Kremlin.
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