{"id":47699,"date":"2022-10-20T09:03:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T13:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=47699"},"modified":"2022-10-20T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T13:03:57","slug":"revealing-the-problems-in-americas-justice-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=47699","title":{"rendered":"Revealing The Problems In America&#8217;s Justice System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/18\/steele-dossier-source-igor-danchenko-acquitted-of-lying-to-fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> posted an article about the verdict in the trial of Igor Danchenko.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A key source for the salacious and discredited Trump-Russia dossier was acquitted by a federal jury Tuesday, in a case that nevertheless produced several bombshells about the FBI\u2019s handling of its probe into the 45th president\u2019s 2016 campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Virginia panel cleared Igor Danchenko of four counts of lying to the bureau following approximately 10 hours of deliberation across two days after the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/14\/judge-in-durham-trial-drops-igor-danchenko-steele-dossier-charge\/\">case judge dropped a fifth count <\/a>against him last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The verdict was the second acquittal at trial in a case brought by special counsel John Durham in connection with the conduct of the FBI counterintelligence probe nicknamed \u201cCrossfire Hurricane.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Despite Danchenko\u2019s acquittal, the trial produced a series of revelations about the FBI \u2014 including testimony from a bureau analyst that it had <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/12\/fbi-offered-1m-to-christopher-steele-to-prove-his-trump-russia-dossier-agent-testifies\/\">offered Christopher Steele<\/a>, the former MI6 spy who compiled the dossier, $1 million in October 2016 to make its outrageous claims against Trump stick.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Court documents filed by Durham last month also indicated the FBI employed Danchenko as a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/14\/main-steele-dossier-source-igor-danchenko-was-fbi-operative\/\">paid confidential source<\/a> for more than three-and-a-half years \u2014 hiring him even as he was being investigated for his role in compiling the dossier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If he was the source for dossier and the dossier was discredited, how is he not guilty of lying?<\/p>\n<p>The article notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The trial also revealed that Helson and other agents did no due diligence on Danchenko\u2019s background when a simple check would have revealed suspicions of his role in Steele\u2019s project.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cDon\u2019t feel bad for the FBI agents,\u201d Durham told the jury on Monday during closing arguments. \u201cThere are things that they didn\u2019t do that they quite clearly should have done.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Trump White House veterans lamented the verdict, with former White House press secretary Sean Spicer calling it \u201cunbelievably disappointing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cWe\u2019ve been waiting and waiting and told to hold our breath, there\u2019s more coming \u2014 just be patient, be patient,\u201d Spicer said on his Newsmax show \u201cSpicer &amp; Co.\u201d \u201cThis is \u2014 I don\u2019t even think disappointing does justice to how bad this is.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Ric Grenell, the former acting director of national intelligence, argued in a tweet that the verdict doesn\u2019t exonerate the government officials who pushed falsehoods about alleged Trump-Russia collusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cDanchenko and the FBI both lied in and about the Steele dossier,\u201d Grenell wrote. \u201cThey made outlandish claims that never materialized. A jury saying that Danchenko didn\u2019t lie doesn\u2019t clear up how the lies were pushed by our government.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article explains the charge and the acquittal:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The case against Danchenko turned on a phone call he claimed to receive from someone he believed was Sergei Millian, a Belarusian-American businessman, who was purportedly in touch with people connected to Trump and told Danchenko about a false conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Prosecutors said phone records showed no evidence of a call between Danchenko and Millian and that Danchenko had no reason to believe Millian, a Trump supporter he\u2019d never met, was suddenly going to be willing to provide disparaging information about Trump to a stranger.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is there anyone honest in Washington?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/18\/igor-danchenko-found-not-guilty-on-all-four-counts-of-lying-to-the-fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conservative Treehouse<\/a> posted an article explaining why the Durham investigation is not going to find anyone guilty of anything&#8211;the investigation is simply there to cover for the previous misdeeds of the deep state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, The New York Post posted an article about the verdict in the trial of Igor Danchenko. 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