Durham probe: FBI offered Christopher Steele $1 million to corroborate Trump allegations in dossier

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/du...million-corroborate-trump-allegations-dossier

“The FBI offered ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele $1 million to corroborate salacious allegations made in his dossier against Donald Trump and members of his 2016 campaign, but he was unable to do so, an FBI official testified Tuesday.”

So it looks like the FBI was willing to pay $1,000,000 to a foreign intelligence agent for dirt on our president. And we are supposed to believe they’re on the up and up with this mar a lago investigation? I can’t speak for the rest of you but I’m not that stupid.

 

This is treasonous and Mueller and Schiff probably knew about it.

 

Nobody is accusing you of being stupid. Gullible........absolutely.

 

Is Durham lying?

 

Yes
Why? Because they didn't pay it. Why? Because it couldn't be corroborated. What exactly the story here that you don't know the facts of already?

 

Maybe you’d like to explain why the FBI would offer $1,000,000 for information about an investigational target. That’s not a justifiable payment for legitimate information.

And then when it couldn’t be corroborated they still used that information to get a warrant and used that fraudulent information THREE TIMES for the warrants extension.

Given that information, what makes you think their current investigation is on the up and up?

 

Guys, you're missing the real backstory to this. The FBI was basically willing to engage in BLACKMAIL(paying Steele for the salicious information) which is a crime. It's akin to the fertilizer terrorist bombs that never go off, but could which is not only reckless to civilian life but just generally stupid.

 

Sounds to me the FBI was willing to pay $1 million to anyone who could believably invent a crime.

 

So, they offered him money for evidence/information, and he couldn't provide it?
So he was never paid, because there's no evidence?

 

You sure?

Durham debunks a prolific Trump lie

Durham appeared to break new ground on the well-trodden topic of the dossier, with his revelation about the $1 million offer to Steele. CNN previously reported that the FBI reimbursed some expenses for Steele, who had been an FBI informant.

But the special counsel also debunked a prolific Trump lie about the Steele dossier – that it was the reason why the FBI started investigating his campaign in 2016 for potentially conspiring with Russian agents.

This false claim has been refuted dozens of times over the years, in official Justice Department documentation, bipartisan reports from Congress, and numerous court filings. It was refuted again Tuesday, when Durham asked Auten, the FBI official, to tell jurors the reason why the Trump-Russia investigation was opened in late July 2016.


Auten confirmed what has been known for many years: the probe was launched after the US government got intelligence from a friendly country that a Trump campaign aide had bragged to one of its diplomats that the Russians had offered to help Trump beat Hillary Clinton.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/politics/steele-dossier-fbi-durham-danchenko


SO OFFERING $1 MILLION TO PROVE HIS ALLEGATIONS WOULD BE WRONG? Why? He never explained or did it right?

 

Rewards for Justice

Terrorism
For information that:

• Leads to the arrest or conviction of anyone who plans, commits, aids, or attempts international terrorist acts against U.S. persons or property in the United States or abroad;
• Prevents such acts from occurring in the first place;
• Identifies or locates a key terrorist leader;
• Disrupts the financial mechanisms of foreign terrorist organizations. This includes the disruption of kidnapping networks and kidnapping events that financially support such organizations.

Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections
For information that:

• Leads to the identification or location of any foreign person who knowingly engaged or is engaging in U.S. election interference, including activity that violates federal criminal, voting rights, or campaign finance law, or such activity that is performed by any person acting as an agent of or on behalf of, or in coordination with, a foreign government or criminal enterprise;
• Leads to the prevention, frustration, or favorable resolution of an act of foreign interference in U.S. elections.

Malicious Cyber Activity
For information that:

• Identifies or locates any individual who, while acting at the direction or under the control of a foreign government, aids or abets a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”), 18 U.S.C. § 1030. This includes foreign election interference.

North Korea
For information that:

• Disrupts the financial mechanisms of persons or entities engaged in certain activities supporting the North Korean regime;
• Identifies or locates any individual who, while acting at the direction or under the control of the North Korean government, aids or abets a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”), 18 U.S.C. § 1030. This includes cyber-attacks and intrusions on U.S. government systems.

https://www.state.gov/rewards-for-justice/

 

That diplomat as Australian Downer, former leader of the major right wing party in Australia. I have seen some of the more unhinged Trumpers refer to him as 'agent Downer'. No one familiar with the man could say tha twith a straight face.

 

Makes for a convenient distraction from The Stain’s current woes…..

 

No, it’s a lie and more desperate distracting bullshit from the right.

 

Not "probably". More like, "definitely".

 

The Russia collusion hoax keeps getting dirtier and dirtier.

 

Finally admitting that the Steele Dossier was complete bullshit?

 

B b b b but Jan 6!!!!!! Guys with horns on their head overthrew our entire government by taking selfies

 

Doesn’t matter if they were paid or not. What is it that y’all say about Jan 6? “It doesn’t matter if it was successful, it was still an illegal coup”. Right?

it doesn’t matter if their bribery was successful or not. They tried.

FFS you folks impeached Trump for a PHONE CALL where he said someone might want to investigate Hunter Biden. Whom we ALL KNOW now is a ****ing corrupt criminal.

You’re telling me it’s not a problem when our OWN government agency the FBI has been weaponized by offering $1,000,000 for someone to find dirt on a presidential candidate? Then FAILING miserably and STILL using that fraudulent information to engage in an unconstitutional spying campaign?

Well that’s sure as hell good to know for when we take back control.

 

Lol Durham is lying? You realize this all came out in COURT right? This was SWORN TESTIMONY in court that revealed this information.

 

Wtf are you talking about? Nobody is even discussing that. Please stay up to date and on topic. Thanks

 

So I just want to make sure we are clear here. When Trump gets into office you think it’s acceptable to have the FBI to offer $1,000,000 for dirt on the next democrat presidential campaign running for office?

 

I'd suggest that if folks haven't read the several expose's on Andrew Weissman, that folks read them. Between Andrew and Mueller, they seem to be a two man wrecking ball determined to destroy the folks they have resentment and hate for. There seems to be a larger cabal that share these sentiments, and it appears that having someone in the office like Trump who wasn't willing to bow to them became a target of them.

 

The FBI recently seems to have a track record of exactly that. Inventing crime. why? Because it looks like they are actually doing something effective. One has to take a deep look into their public record. Crimes seem to simply flow out of them. Kidnapping a governor, for example... Don't ask about why illegal aliens continue to terrorize the public, they have 'bigger" fish to fry... Anyone who won't bow to them. And isn't that a terrifying thought?

 

LOL... No really... wait... LOL... seriously... LOL...

The CNN spin to wash their dirty hands here is staggeringly sparse on the actual cause. The shopping of the FBI by a lawyer representing the Hillary campaign. I know, you'd like everyone to forget that part... And yes, that information was used to illegally spy on members of the Trump campaign, three times. So, it was a lie. The FBI, invented another headline grabber, and now they are irreparably harmed by their behavior. The real story is the institutional misbehavior of the agency, their unwillingness to even address that behavior. And the innumerable acts of criminal abuse of their power.