Commentary Earlier this month, special counsel John Durham unsealed his second indictment since he was appointed in October of last year by departing Attorney General William Barr. Igor Danchenko, a Russian national living in the United States and long known to be the “primary sub-source” (PSS) for Christopher Steele’s controversial dossier, was charged with five counts of making false statements to federal officials (pdf). The first false statement charge detailed the deceptive answers by Danchenko to FBI agents about a longtime Clinton associate named Charles H. “Chuck” Dolan. Danchenko appears to have been determined to steer the FBI away from Dolan as a source for several of the Trump–Russia claims that are published in the Steele dossier. He failed in this attempt. The other four charges have to do with Danchenko’s false claim that he got several dossier allegations—including a key allegation used in the FISA surveillance warrant on Trump campaign …
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