
Prosecutors allege that Danchenko fabricated one of his sources and obscured another when he was interviewed by the FBI about his role in the “Steele dossier.” That dossier, commissioned by Democrats in 2016, raised allegations of connections between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.ĭuring Wednesday’s cross-examination, though, Auten acknowledged that he has had positive things to say about Danchenko in past testimony to a Senate committee and to the Office of the Inspector General, both of which conducted their own investigations about the FBI probe into links between Trump and Russia. MaPatrick Henry College For the past four years, Democrats and the Washington media have suspended disbelief about the Steele dossier’s credibility by arguing that some Russia allegations against Donald Trump and his advisers have been corroborated and therefore the most explosive charges may also be true. The Russian-born analyst, who now lives in Virginia, faces a five-count indictment alleging he made false statements to the FBI about his sources of information he provided about Trump to British spy Christopher Steele.
BOTH STEELE DOSSIER TESTIMONY TRIAL
District Court in Alexandria at the trial of Igor Danchenko. The Steele Dossier and the role it played in the FBI's. A key source for dossier compiler and former British spy Christopher Steele.


(AP) - The FBI agent who questioned a think tank analyst charged with lying to the bureau about his role in the creation of a flawed dossier about former President Donald Trump has twice testified that he believes the analyst was truthful with him, jurors heard Wednesday.įBI analyst Brian Auten testified for a second straight day at U.S. Democrats on the Intelligence Committee say still-classified evidence contradicts Page's testimony. The problem was that both the Steele dossier and the Alfa Bank allegations fell apart soon after being fed to the FBI.
