The FBI Paid for Russian Disinformation While Punishing a Patriot
Stunning new evidence The Regime will do whatever it takes to protect its interests while punishing those who would threaten them
The FBI Paid for Russian Disinformation While Punishing a Patriot
To understand the state of disrepair of our national security and law enforcement apparatus, look to the FBI’s contrasting treatment of Russian disinformation-spinner Igor Danchenko, and whistleblowing Special Agent Steven Friend.
We recently learned the Bureau rewarded the former for his lies, while punishing the latter for his truths.
Danchenko is the key researcher behind the key document (the Steele dossier) behind the key effort (Russiagate) to undermine candidate and then topple President Trump.
The FBI knew Danchenko was not only beyond disreputable, and that he had fed it lie after lie discrediting both himself and the dirty dossier it was never able to verify any of, but that years prior it had opened a counterintelligence investigation into Danchenko as a potential Russian agent who allegedly had sought to broker the sale of sensitive U.S. national security information to unnamed parties.
Yet the FBI persisted in its pursuit of Russiagate, the poisonous fruit of a poisoned tree. Worse, we now learn it put Danchenko on its payroll as a confidential informant, as I argue both to buy his silence and shield itself from scrutiny.
Conversely, Friend has been revealed as a whistleblower behind among other things that the FBI is cooking the books to inflate the purported threat of right-wing domestic violent extremism; that agents (minimally Friend) are being removed from active investigations into child sex abuse and trafficking in favor of January 6 cases; and that innocent Americans are being pursued on domestic terrorism grounds via FBI tip line leads and surveilled Facebook messages.
For his whistleblowing on our War on Wrongthink, the FBI suspended Friend.
I compare the cases of these two men in a new piece at Newsweek, concluding in part:
Danchenko and Friend's cases are related.
That Durham is reportedly winding down his investigation indicates the worst of the Russiagate actors—those who most abused their positions of authority—will never be punished.
That lack of accountability paved the way for other brazen gambits: Trump Impeachments I and II, the Jan. 6 Committee and DOJ's sprawling related pursuits, punishment of nonviolent defendants in pre-trial detention for months, the Mar-a-Lago raid, subpoena carpet-bombs, and more [that Friend has paid the price in part for exposing].
Lady Justice weeps.
The depth of corruption in the FBI and DOJ is horrific.