

Christopher Steele’s primary source is Igor Danchenko, a Russian citizen who had worked for the Brookings Institution think tank. Around the end of that employment, the indictment asserts, he was introduced to “PR Executive-1,” a Clinton crony who The New York Times confirmed is Charles Dolan. From 2005 through 2010, he worked at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, a center-left think tank. The revelation shouldn’t surprise us, given that Danchenko was never some high-level Russian in Moscow. Clintonites here, Clintonites there, Trump “scandals” everywhere. Two more years on, Durham’s indictment says this source - Danchenko - obtained material from a longtime Democratic operative who was active in the 2016 Clinton campaign. It took two more years for Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to expose that Steele had relied on a Russian source who said he had never expected Steele to present his info as facts, since most of it was “hearsay.” Christopher Steele shopped the Clinton dossier to the media and FBI, hoping to spark a public investigation of Donald Trump. It took a year for congressional investigators to reveal the dossier had in fact been commissioned by the opposition-research firm Fusion GPS, working for the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. We knew that because - as Mother Jones explained in a 2016 article that became the reigning storyline - Christopher Steele was a “credible source with a proven record of providing reliable, sensitive and important information to the US government.” He had come across “troubling” evidence of Trump collusion and brought it to US law enforcement. According to the FBI, Democrats and the media, Trump harbored secret and nefarious ties with Russia.

Danchenko is charged with lying to the FBI, but the bigger story of the indictment is Democrats’ central role in every aspect of the dossier and the FBI investigation. Special counsel John Durham this week obtained an indictment of Igor Danchenko, a Russian who provided information for the dossier. It should have been called the Clinton dossier.

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