Igor Danchenko, an analyst and main “contributor” to the Steele Dossier of “Russiagate” infamy, was arrested today, CNBC’s Dan Mangan reported this afternoon. A grand jury indictment charged Danchenko with five counts of making false statements to the FBI about the Steele Dossier during interviews with agents in 2017. The arrest was part of an ongoing probe by special counsel John Durham, who was appointed during the Trump Administration to investigate the roots of the intelligence agencies’ corrupt Trump-Russia investigation.
Steele’s dossier on President Trump became the basis for the FBI application for a warrant to tap the phone of former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page one month before Election Day in 2016. Steele’s investigation was funded by the firm Fusion GPS, which had been hired by the Democratic National Committee to conduct opposition research on Trump. Thus, it effectively brought the FBI, along with CIA elements, into partisan electoral activity against Trump.
