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FBI didn't pay because it wasn't corroborated.
You wanted to kill Pence and end the Cons ution.
You're much worse than the FBI.
As the prosecution opened its case against Danchenko Tuesday, Special Counsel John Durham questioned his first witness, FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten.
Auten testified that in early October 2016, the FBI offered Steele "up to $1 million" to provide corroborating evidence for his dossier, but the former British spy didn't provide any such information to the bureau. As a result, Steele wasn't given the money because he was unable to "prove the allegations."
An application the FBI submitted to a FISA court on Oct. 21, 2016 for a warrant to initiate electronic surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page included uncorroborated information from the dossier. Auten testified that before the FBI received the dossier, it didn't have enough evidence to obtain a FISA warrant.
Auten also said the FBI contacted other intelligence agencies regarding the specific allegations in the dossier, but none were able to corroborate them.
Durham asked Auten, "On October 21, 2016 did you have any information to corroborate that information?"
"No," Auten replied.
Patel was asked about the purported reward offer on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show Tuesday. The House Intelligence panel chaired by then-Rep. Devin Nunes sent 17 congressional subpoenas "for information specifically related to payments and confidential human sources," he said, "were denied this information, and we learn it four years after our investigation."
"That means somebody obstructed a congressional investigation with congressional subpoenas," said Patel, a former national security prosecutor.
This exposes "the depths that [the FBI] would go to to falsely corroborate the Steele dossier, which ... shows they didn't have it verified, which we've said the whole time," Patel added.
"And more importantly," he continued, "they were willing to spend a million taxpayer dollars on shoveling political hot garbage through the federal court system just to surveil a political target that would have been totally baseless — it was baseless then."
Referring to a group of senior FBI leaders during the James Comey era as "government gangsters," Patel said "this bombs " shows that they "were so arrogant, that they said, 'Nobody is going to catch us. We are going to break a cons utional republic's 250-year tradition because we don't like the guy in the White House, and we're going to manufacture a crime on it.'"
Retired FBI supervisory special agent Bassem Youssef, one of the bureau's most famous whistleblowers, said Tuesday's revelation at the trial was unlike anything he ever saw in his three-decade FBI career.
"Never in my entire career have I heard of such an offer to pay a source to corroborate their own information," Youssef told Just the News. "The FBI queries other sources in order to validate the original source of information. It is unheard of that the FBI would offer to pay Steele $1 million to corroborate his own information.
"Obviously, the FBI was unable to validate this information through any other source that they had to resort to 'bribing' Steele to lend credibility to his own information, which the FBI knew to be inaccurate and unreliable," he added. "What a sad state of affairs in my beloved FBI."
https://justthenews.com/accountabili...ows-fbi-misled
FBI didn't pay because it wasn't corroborated.
You wanted to kill Pence and end the Cons ution.
You're much worse than the FBI.
Hahahahaha!
OJ still looking for the “killers”
crofl TSA
So the big bad FBI are the actual witnesses to Durham?
Danchenko is charged with lying to the FBI...why would the FBI not be a witness?So the big bad FBI are the actual witnesses to Durham?
do you mean FBI should also be charged? your court-acceptable evidence?
whoopsie
Did you even read the article you posted?
I did.Did you even read the article you posted?
His inquiry is winding down after more than three years, and he has only secured one guilty plea from an FBI lawyer that resulted in zero jail time. His only other case, against a Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer, ended with a swift jury acquittal in May.
I did.Did you even read the article you posted?
Durham has been unwilling to charge anyone over the stuff he grandstands about in court. Maybe the grandstanding is the whole point.
CNN is trying to frame this as undercutting Durham's case?!?!
Thanks for posting the article winehole...Durham took a wet on Auten and the FBI."Auten previously said Danchenko was “truthful” and “assisted” the Russia probe. He also said securing Danchenko as an FBI source was “one of the best things that came out of” the Russia probe. This undercuts the core of Durham’s indictment, which alleged that Danchenko serially lied to the FBI and impeded the investigators who were scrambling to verify the Steele dossier.
Danchenko’s defense attorney, Danny Onorato, asked Auten in court on Wednesday if that was still his belief today, and Auten answered in the affirmative, adding, “I stand by my testimony.”
Durham brought up the previously unknown fact that Auten was “recommended for suspension” by the FBI’s internal auditors – which wasn’t even mentioned by the defense. Auten acknowledged the recommendation, which he said is under appeal. Lawyers often bring up a witness’ past misconduct or punishments as a way to attack their credibility – but in this case, it was the prosecutor seemingly impeaching his own witness.
“You’re going to be suspended,” Durham said in one of his questions, “because you won’t admit your involvement” in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, process.
The special counsel then rebuked Auten for saying earlier that George Papadopoulos was a “high-level adviser” to Trump’s 2016 campaign. Durham accurately noted that Papadopoulos was a low-level aide, just 28 years old at the time, and still included his Model UN experience from college on his resume.Durham took a bat to Crossfire Hurricane, which was the codename for the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe before special counsel Robert Mueller took over. The Russia probe has been a major focus of Durham’s work, and he previously criticized how it was opened. But he hasn’t brought any charges alleging bias or misconduct in the opening of Crossfire Hurricane.
“Did you guys even bother to go look at the phone records?” Durham asked, referring to the records of one of Danchenko’s potential sources for the dossier. “Did you guys even bother to look at the travel records?”
Auten said the FBI had not, to the best of his memory.
“It all had to be reconstructed,” Durham said.
“Reconstructed by whom?” Auten asked.
“Not by your group,” Durham responded, touting his team’s renewed scrutiny of Danchenko.The special counsel also grilled Auten over his role in the FBI applications to surveil a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page, under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
It seemed as if Durham was using Auten’s time on the witness stand to hold him responsible for the significant mistakes and omissions in the FISA applications, which were revealed by the Justice Department inspector general in a 2019 report. Durham called it a “scathing report,” but was forced to rephrase his question after Danchenko’s lawyers objected to his characterization.
Durham said the FBI was “much too ready, willing and able just to accept” Steele’s claims and include them in the FISA warrant applications. The trial has established that FBI agents recycled Steele’s material in FISA renewals, even as their efforts to corroborate his work fell flat.
whoopsie
If you did indeed read it what's then what is the "whoopsie"?
Yep, Durham sure did everything he could do discredit his own witness and destroy his own case.
wh
Durham attacked his own lead witness on the stand because he hurt the case before the court. Durham basically got caught mischaracterizing his own witness's beliefs.
he thinks everything he posts backs up his creedal bull , obviously
I mean his last gasp is a trial in which the FBI is the nominal victim of the crime.
Here's a play by play from day 2 with Auten. Durham obliterates him.
Going to have to agree with CNN and Durham's critics...he has put the intentional government misconduct on full display.Many of Durham’s actions Wednesday vindicated his critics’ main complaint – that he has used his trials to push a dubious narrative of intentional government misconduct against Trump, and of a far-reaching conspiracy by Democrats to smear Trump, without ever actually charging it.
ChumpDumper begging for a middleman assist from Winehole to get his posts visible to me
I quote your dumbass posts so people know what I'm mocking, you pizzagate QAnon rube.
You don't understand that Auten is Durham's witness and Durham is ing himself.
Hillary broke you and she didn't even win.
Durham announces to the planet:
“yes- i am nothing but a trumper with an agenda to do trump and barrs bidding”
lololololol9l
Has OJ found the “killers” yet - comrade TSA?
bwahahahahahahahaha!
So that's a YES SIR YESSo the big bad FBI are the actual witnesses to Durham?
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