Category: Brian Auten

How the FBI Lost, Found, and Rewarded the Alleged Russian Spy Pivotal to Surveilling Trump

News Analysis Twelve years ago, FBI agents in Baltimore sought to wiretap former Brookings Institution analyst Igor Danchenko on suspicions he was spying for Russia. But the counterintelligence analyst they were assigned to work with Brian Auten told them he could not find their target and assumed the Russian national had fled back to Moscow….


PREMIERING 8PM ET: Kash Patel: Danchenko, Durham, Auten, and the FBI’s $1 Million Bounty Offer to Christopher Steele

This episode will premiere on Friday, Oct. 14, at 8 p.m. ET. On this episode of “Kash’s Corner,” we discuss developments in the Igor Danchenko Trial, including FBI Agent Brian Auten’s bombshell testimony about the FBI’s offer to Christopher Steele. “Now we learned that there was an offer of one million U.S. dollars to Christopher…


PREMIERING NOW: Kash Patel: Danchenko, Durham, Auten, and the FBI’s $1 Million Bounty Offer to Christopher Steele

This episode will premiere on Friday, Oct. 14, at 8 p.m. ET. On this episode of “Kash’s Corner,” we discuss developments in the Igor Danchenko Trial, including FBI Agent Brian Auten’s bombshell testimony about the FBI’s offer to Christopher Steele. “Now we learned that there was an offer of one million U.S. dollars to Christopher…


Kash Patel: Danchenko, Durham, Auten, and the FBI’s $1 Million Bounty Offer to Christopher Steele

On this episode of “Kash’s Corner,” we discuss developments in the Igor Danchenko Trial, including FBI Agent Brian Auten’s bombshell testimony about the FBI’s offer to Christopher Steele. “Now we learned that there was an offer of one million U.S. dollars to Christopher Steele?” says Kash Patel. “Remember when we broke the news that the…


Durham Prosecutes FBI Informants, While Protecting Their Handlers

Since being named special counsel in October 2020, John Durham has investigated or indicted several unscrupulous anti-Trump informants. But he has spared the FBI agents who handled them, raising suspicions he’s letting investigators off the hook in his waning investigation of misconduct in the Russiagate probe. In recent court filings, Durham has portrayed the G-men…


FBI Unit Leading Mar-a-Lago Probe Earlier Ran Discredited Trump-Russia Investigation

The FBI division overseeing the investigation of former President Trump’s handling of classified material at his Mar-a-Lago residence is also a focus of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation of the bureau’s alleged abuses of power and political bias during its years-long Russiagate probe of Trump. The FBI’s nine-hour, 30-agent raid of the former president’s Florida…


FBI Director Wray Calls Report of Bureau’s Alleged Mishandling of Hunter Biden Probe ‘Deeply Troubling’

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Aug. 4, FBI Director Christopher Wray said he found “deeply troubling” a whistleblowers’ report alleging a concerted effort within the agency to discredit accurate information about Hunter Biden during the bureau’s investigation in 2020. The report claiming widespread efforts within the FBI to downplay or mishandle information about…