Russiagate investigator makes 'explosive' prediction for Durham case

Daniel Chaitin

October 09, 04:31 PM October 09, 04:31 PM

A leading Russiagate investigator is raising expectations for next week's trial in special counsel John Durham's investigation looking for misconduct in the FBI's Trump-Russia inquiry.

Kash Patel, a former top House Intelligence Committee aide and Trump administration official, made a prediction based on the Durham's claim in court that the alleged source for disgraced former British spy Christopher Steele's infamous anti-Trump dossier was a paid confidential human source for the FBI.

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Durham's prosecution will "explode" the FBI’s "confidential human source corruption coverup network" being used for, in his view, a "disinformation campaign to the American public," Patel said in a recent interview on Real America's Voice.

The alleged source is Igor Danchenko, a U.S.-based Russian lawyer who is charged with five counts of making false statements tied to what he told the bureau about the dossier.

Danchenko has pleaded not guilty to the charges, and his trial in Virginia begins on Tuesday. In filings, Durham has also alleged the FBI botched a counterintelligence investigation into Danchenko that stretched from 2009 to 2011.

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While former President Donald Trump and his allies claim the businessman-turned-politician was unfairly targeted in a bid to undermine his campaign and presidency, Democrats and some legal observers who claim the inquiry is meant to undercut Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation and inflict damage on Trump's political foes.

Durham's investigation, which is looking for misconduct in the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation and has secured one conviction so far, is reportedly winding down and is expected to produce a report in the end. Republicans are gearing up for a wider investigation into the allegations of FBI malfeasance if they win control of at least one chamber in the November midterm elections.