ALEXANDRIA, VA A federal judge has thrown out one of the five charges brought by special counsel John Durham against Igor Danchenko, who is accused of lying to the FBI about the sourcing for Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier.
A current FBI special agent and a former bureau analyst who both served on Robert Mueller’s team testified that the special counsel’s office declined to investigate and never interviewed Chuck Dolan
the allegations never materialized. yesterday durham asked him you didn t have corroboration from f.b.i. databases and other intelligence community agencies or christopher steele and it still went into a fisa application. correct, said the witness. the fisa application used to sur veil or spy on the 2016 trump campaign aide carter page. surveillance order was renewed multiple times. they sur veiled page s communications for months. durham wants to show the f.b.i. went full steam ahead spying on carter page despite no russia connection evidence. the first witness is chuck dolan. democratic analyst and p.r. executive with ties to the clintons that go back several decades. danchenko, according to the government, spoke to dolan and took political gossip from him and put it in the steele dossier
and used to get the fisa warrant. he said danchenko was not truthful communicating with dolan. dana: we all think your trench coat is amazing. you look great outside the courthouse this morning. old school. bill: thank you, david. two anglers at the center of a cheating scandal that rocked the sport fishing world last month facing charges on felony. they were indicted on several counts after the pair was caught stuffings fish with lead weights. here is the moment they were busted. bill: just the latest in a string of high profile scandals in professional competition ranging from chess to beauty