The House Judiciary Committee hearing was focused on Durham’s report which examined the origins of and justifications for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) investigation against the, then, presidential candidate Donald Trump. ĭurham, who investigated the FBI’s probe intosuspected ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, found himself at the center of a heated political fight as he appeared before a congressional committee on Wednesday, June 21. AFP via Getty Imagesĭurham, the special counsel, was appointed by Trump’s Justice Department in May 2019 after the president said the investigation into his purported campaign ties to Russia was a witch hunt.Indiana Republican Congresswoman Victoria Spartz, known for her accusatory rhetoric against Andriy Yermak, the Head of Ukraine’s Office of the President rattled off targeted Russia-related questions at Special Counsel John Durham. Christopher Steele is the former British spy who was paid by Democrats during the 2016 presidential campaign for intelligence on ties between Russia and Trump. The FBI had interviewed him several times between January and November 2017 as they attempted to vet the materials included in the dossier, but they were unable to “confirm or corroborate” most of the allegations, according to his indictment. Getty ImagesĪccording to Danchenko’s indictment, he lied about several of the claims - including that Russia had a tape of Trump in a Moscow hotel room with prostitutes who were urinating on a bed where President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama had previously stayed.ĭanchenko later admitted to the FBI that the scandalous detail - like much of his info in the report - was based on “rumor and speculation.” Special counsel John Durham said in a court filing Tuesday that Danchenko was allegedly a paid confidential human source for the FBI. In his work for Steele’s private intelligence firm, Danchenko was tasked with collecting information about Trump’s possible links to Russia - some of which was used in the since-discredited dossier. It wasn’t clear from the court filing what information the FBI was paying Danchenko for. The FBI terminated its source relationship with the defendant in October 2020 … The defendant lied to FBI agents during several of these interviews.” “In March 2017, the FBI signed the defendant up as a paid confidential human source of the FBI. “From January 2017 through October 2020, and as part of its efforts to determine the truth or falsity of specific information in the Steele reports, the FBI conducted multiple interviews of the defendant regarding, among other things, the information that he had provided to Steele,” Durham said in the court filing. Igor Danchenko pleaded not guilty to five counts of making false statements to the FBI about his role in the infamous “Steele dossier.” Getty Images He pleaded not guilty to five counts of making false statements about some of the information he gave to Christopher Steele, the former British spy who was paid by Democrats during the 2016 presidential campaign for intelligence on ties between Russia and Trump. Igor Danchenko became a paid FBI informant in March 2017 - months after the feds started questioning him over his involvement in the dossier on former President Donald Trump, according to the filing by special counsel John Durham.ĭanchenko, a Russian-born lawyer living in Virginia, was arrested in November last year as part of Durham’s probe into the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation. The Russian analyst charged with lying to the FBI about his role in the infamous “Steele dossier” was allegedly a paid confidential human source for the agency, a newly unsealed court filing revealed Tuesday. Here’s when FBI Director Christopher Wray will testify before House Judiciary Committee
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