The F.B.I. Pledged to Keep a Source Anonymous. Trump Allies Aided His Unmasking.

[Nevilledog]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/us/politics/igor-danchenko-steele-dossier.html

After a Russia expert who had collected research on Donald Trump for a disputed dossier agreed to tell the F.B.I. what he knew about it, law enforcement officials declassified a road map to identifying him.

WASHINGTON — Not long after the early 2017 publication of a notorious dossier about President Trump jolted Washington, an expert in Russian politics told the F.B.I. he had been one of its key sources, drawing on his contacts to deliver information that would make up some of the most salacious and unproven assertions in the document.

The F.B.I. had approached the expert, a man named Igor Danchenko, as it vetted the dossier’s claims. He agreed to tell investigators what he knew with an important condition, people familiar with the matter said — that the F.B.I. keep his identity secret so he could protect himself, his sources and his family and friends in Russia.

But his hope of remaining anonymous evaporated last week after Attorney General William P. Barr directed the F.B.I. to declassify a redacted report about its three-day interview of Mr. Danchenko in 2017 and hand it over to Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Mr. Graham promptly made the interview summary public while calling the entire Russia investigation “corrupt.”

The report blacked out Mr. Danchenko’s name and other identifying information. But within two days, a post on a newly created blog entitled “I Found the Primary Subsource” identified him, citing clues left visible in the F.B.I. document. A pseudonymous Twitter account created in May then promoted the existence of the blog. And the next day, RT, the Kremlin-owned, English-language news and propaganda outlet, published an article amplifying Mr. Danchenko’s identification.

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[Grins]

1. We are blind in the world.

I heard from people who know people in intelligence who say we are blind in the world because NO PERSON, and NO COUNTRIES’ intelligence services can trust us to keep secrets they gave and shared with us.

From Michael Flynn and his honeypot, his taking money from Russian sources, to America intelligence telling the Israeli’s not to trust us until Trump was cleared, to Trump revealing code-level intelligence to the Russians- in the Oval Office - to the sudden extraction and outing a source we had IN THE KREMLIN because we feared Trump would out him, to Kushner giving intelligence to the Saudi’s...it goes on and on, and now this.

If I had the power, both Trump and Barr would be masked and on the wrong end of a firing squad.

[Karadeniz]

2. Totally agree!

[uponit7771]

3. +1, there is no opsec now and it wont be any for another year after Biden fires EVERYONE who ...

... cooperated with Red DOn