Top U.S. senators are pressing the FBI’s director and the attorney general for answers on how the government paid the primary source for the anti-Donald Trump dossier, which has been proven to be full of baseless information.
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the top Republican on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said they want more information following the recent disclosure that the FBI paid Igor Danchenko.
Special counsel John Durham first revealed in early September that the FBI paid Danchenko, the primary source for dossier author Christopher Steele, from March 2017 to October 2020. Danchenko later confirmed the payments. The FBI has declined to comment, and the Department of Justice has not responded to inquiries….