Danchenko Fed Steele Bogus Intel [WATCH]

Legal analyst Gregg Jarrett called for the full declassification of Special Counsel John Durham’s report during a Fox Business appearance Monday, citing key interviews that have yet to be made public.

Jarrett stated that the report contains information the American public deserves to see, particularly regarding the role of Clinton allies in providing information used in the discredited Steele dossier.

Speaking on Kudlow, Jarrett said that Durham’s report should be fully released, including annexes and classified interview material, to expose how the FBI relied on “uncorroborated intelligence” in its investigation of then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election.

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“Durham’s report, in full, including the annex, needs to be declassified because he interviewed a great many people, including Igor Danchenko, who was the sub-source of the Steele phony dossier,” Jarrett said.

“And guess where he got his information? From a Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton acolyte. So the Clinton folks fed the bogus information to Danchenko.”

The Steele dossier, compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, was funded by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign through the Perkins Coie law firm.

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It contained a series of unverified claims regarding Trump and alleged ties to the Russian government.

The FBI used the document as part of its application for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants to surveil Trump campaign associate Carter Page.

Jarrett stated that Steele knowingly included the information in the dossier despite warnings from Danchenko about the reliability of the material.

“He feeds it to Christopher Steele with a warning saying, you know, this is all junk. It’s just made up. Steele uses it anyway,” Jarrett said.

“And Steele was triple dipping. He was getting paid by the Hillary campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and the FBI to compose.”

In addition to criticizing the sources of the dossier, Jarrett also faulted the media for promoting its contents without sufficient scrutiny.

“It’s so funny. I couldn’t stop laughing. It’s sort of like a junior high school wannabe detective fiction writer bereft of any talent. And it’s obvious on its face. It’s all nonsense,” he said.

“Yet the media, I don’t think, ever bothered to actually read the dossier. If they did, they’re the most gullible people in the world.”

Durham’s final report, released in May 2023, concluded that the FBI did not and could not corroborate the Steele dossier’s central claims.

It further found that the Bureau failed to adhere to proper procedures and lacked sufficient justification for launching the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump’s campaign.

Igor Danchenko, a Russian-born U.S. resident, served as the Steele dossier’s primary source.

His identity was confirmed in 2020 after online sleuths analyzed a redacted FBI document and matched it to Danchenko’s known background.

Danchenko was later charged with making false statements to the FBI, but a federal jury found him not guilty in 2022.

Despite the acquittal, questions remain about the origins and use of the dossier.

Jarrett and others have argued that further declassification would provide transparency about the role of political operatives and intelligence officials in the investigation.