Tag: Christopher Steele

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….


Framing Millian

The Epoch Times presents the third part of an exclusive edited extract from the forthcoming book “Swiftboating America” by Hans Mahncke, co-host of Truth over News on EpochTV. Sign up at SwiftboatingAmerica.com to get a notification once the book is out. Why have Steele’s dossier lies been so successful? Why have they persisted? To understand…


Hillary’s Swiftboat Project

The Epoch Times presents the second part of an exclusive edited extract from the forthcoming book “Swiftboating America” by Hans Mahncke, co-host of “Truth over News” on EpochTV. Sign up at SwiftboatingAmerica.com to get a notification once the book is out. On May 20, 2022, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, finally admitted that it…


Book Excerpt: Swiftboating America

The Epoch Times presents the second part of an exclusive edited extract from the forthcoming book “Swiftboating America” by Hans Mahncke, co-host of “Truth over News” on EpochTV. Sign up at SwiftboatingAmerica.com to get a notification once the book is out. On May 20, 2022, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, finally admitted that it…


Finding Danchenko

The Epoch Times presents the first part of an exclusive edited extract from the forthcoming book “Swiftboating America” by Hans Mahncke, co-host of Truth over News on EpochTV. Sign up at SwiftboatingAmerica.com to get a notification once the book is out. It had become a tradition that I would take the kids camping each summer…


Ex-DOJ Official and Wife Had Bigger Roles in Dossier Than Known: Durham Report

News analysis While it’s bad enough the debunked dossier the FBI used to spy on the Trump campaign was paid for by the Clinton campaign and authored by a foreign FBI informant and his carousing researcher, the newly released report of Special Counsel John Durham strongly suggests a top Justice Department official and his wife…


Jim Jordan Subpoenas Former ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ Head, Nina Jankowicz

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has subpoenaed Nina Jankowicz, who briefly served as the Biden administration’s “disinformation czar.” In a letter to Jankowicz accompanying her subpoena dated March 6 (pdf), Jordan explained that the committee is conducting oversight of the now-defunct Disinformation Governance Board, including its creation and activities. Department of Homeland Security…


Biden’s DOJ Finally Discloses Russiagate Binder After Court Orders Release—It’s Not What We Expected | Truth Over News

Last week, we finally received the first part of the Russiagate binder of documents that President Donald Trump had declassified before he left office. Incredibly, the documents in the 343-page release by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) had already been released earlier during Trump’s presidency. Despite promises to the contrary, lawsuits, and a…


How the FBI Copied Parts of the Debunked Steele Dossier Directly Into Its Spy Requests

The FBI relied more extensively on Christopher Steele’s debunked dossier in their Russiagate investigation than has been revealed, inserting key parts from it into their applications for warrants to spy on the 2016 Trump campaign. Agents did this without telling the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that the precise wording was plucked directly from a political…


Top Takeaways From Trial of Igor Danchenko, Key Source for Anti-Trump Dossier

The trial of Igor Danchenko, a key source for the anti-Donald Trump dossier, ended in Danchenko’s acquittal. But a number of revelations emerged during the trial about Danchenko, dossier author Christopher Steele, and the FBI. FBI Paid Danchenko Nearly $220,000 Filings just before the trial showed Danchenko was a confidential human informant for the FBI….