Steele's "Primary Subsource" Was... Employee of Leftwing Democrat Think Tank The Brookings Institute, Which Itself Was a Major Pusher of the Russiagate Conspiracy Hoax

He had a criminal background -- and had previously been prosecuted by... Rod Rosenstein.

For public drunkeness.

How public drunkeness and disorderly behavior becomes so outrageous that a fed prosecutes it, I can only speculate.

But hey, he's a sloppy drunk. So we should totally trust his "research."

I guess Rosenstein (that sweetheart!) overlooked Danshenko's prior record of unreliable criminality when he signed that FISA warrant based on this con artist's claims.

The mysterious "Primary Subsource" that Christopher Steele has long hidden behind to defend his discredited Trump-Russia dossier is former Brookings Institution analyst -- Igor "Iggy" Danchenko, a Russian national whose past includes criminal convictions and other personal baggage ignored by the FBI in vetting him and the information he fed to Steele, according to congressional sources and records obtained by RealClearInvestigations. Agents continued to use the dossier as grounds to investigate President Trump and put his advisers under counter-espionage surveillance.

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In an odd twist, a 2013 federal case against Danchenko was prosecuted by then-U.S Attorney Rod Rosenstein, who ended up signing one of the FBI's dossier-based wiretap warrants as deputy attorney general in 2017.

Danchenko first ran into trouble with the law as he began working for Brookings -- the preeminent Democratic think tank in Washington -- where he struck up a friendship with Fiona Hill, the White House adviser who testified against Trump during last year's impeachment hearings. Danchenko has described Hill as a mentor, while Hill has sung his praises as a "creative" researcher.

Yeah I'll bet.

Hill is also close to his boss Steele, who she'd known since 2006. She met with the former British intelligence officer during the 2016 campaign and later received a raw, unpublished copy of the now-debunked dossier.

By the way, AllahPundit continues linking Brooking's blog Lawfare, which of course was a very prominent vector of the Russian conspiracy theory hoax.

He just did so this week. He's Hot Air's official Bulwark-linker and Lawfare-linker.

And Damon Linker-linker.

Basically, any lefty or NeverTrumper Hot Air links? Probably a Drunk Atheist C*ck special.

He continues to whine about the right allegedly canceling people (it's not canceling Colin Kaepernik to not hire him, and it's not cancelling people to insist the NFL enforce its "no political messages during games" rule against the left as it does against the right -- and it's not "canceling" anyone to insist on a certain decorum while physically present at their jobs -- while failing to notice that his drunken depressive atheist leftwing ass hasn't been cancelled by the right yet.

Enforcing a workplace rule of long standing is not the same as firing someone for speech they make in their private capacity as a free citizen.

Which is what the left does.

But the drunken propagandist can't admit that. As is the case with all of his leftwing Twitter "pals," the only two answers permittable are, 1, Conservatives are wicked and wrong, or 2, both sides are to blame.

The algorithm does not permit "the left is solely to blame." That's just not allowed.

That's racist, in fact.

Of course, he won't leave Hot Air because he knows that no leftwing site will hire him. He's #Cancelled there.

But he'll claim "both sides do it" even as he takes conservatives' money to type up leftwing propaganda he got from leftwing sources on Twitter.

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