Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst who was considered to be the primary source of the 'Steele dossier,' walked out of federal court in Alexandria Tuesday after a jury cleared him of all charges of making false statements to the FBI.
FILE: Russian analyst Igor Danchenko walks to the Albert V. Bryan U.S. Courthouse during a lunch break in his trial on October 11, 2022 in Alexandria, Virginia.
"We've known all along that Mr. Danchenko was innocent. We're happy now the American public knows that as well," defense attorney Stuart Sears told cameras outside the courthouse. During closing arguments, prosecutors argued if the FBI had discovered at the time of the 2017 interviews that Danchenko was not being truthful about the source of the information, then it would have been forced to inform the FISA court that the bureau's previous applications was not reliable, and it would not have used the information in subsequent FISA applications.
But Danchenko's lawyer Stuart Sears argued his client had told the FBI the information he had passed on to Christopher Steele, the former British spy and author of the salacious dossier, was mostly rumor and speculation which likely could not be corroborated. They claimed Danchenko first read the Steele dossier when it appeared on Buzzfeed in January 2017, and before that, he did not know how Steele was going use the information he had given him.
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