Sunday, July 26, 2020
A Russian Analyst Living in the US Has Been Identified as Christopher Steele’s Primary Dossier Source
Igor Danchenko has since undermined several of Steele's core allegations against Trump and members of his campaign
- The mystery of the primary source for dossier author Christopher Steele has finally been solved.
- Igor Danchenko, a Russia analyst living in the U.S., has been identified as Steele’s primary source of information in the dossier.
- Danchenko, who previously worked at the Brookings Institution, told the FBI in January 2017 that he was Steele’s source.
- He undermined several of Steele’s core allegations regarding Donald Trump and members of his campaign.
Igor Danchenko, 42, was identified as the dossier source through a series of events that began with the July 17 release of an FBI memo of interviews conducted with Steele’s primary source in January 2017.
The FBI redacted all information in the memo that might identify Danchenko and six of his sub-sources, but a Twitter user pieced together clues from the memo — such that Danchenko worked as a “facilitator” and had studied in the United States — to identify him as the likely source. The Twitter sleuth created a blog laying out information about Danchenko.
On Saturday, The New York Times confirmed that Danchenko was the source.
“Mr. Danchenko is a highly respected senior research analyst; he is neither an author nor editor for any of the final reports produced by Orbis,” Danchenko’s lawyer, Mark Schamel, told the Times.
“Mr. Danchenko stands by his data analysis and research and will leave it to others to evaluate and interpret any broader story with regard to Orbis’s final report,” said Schamel, referring to Orbis Business Intelligence, the London-based firm owned by Steele.
Danchenko Undercuts Steele
Danchenko, a former analyst at the Brookings Institution, a liberal foreign policy think tank, undercut some of the dossier’s most explosive allegations about Trump and members of his campaign. His statements to the FBI also suggested that he has far fewer connections to Kremlin insiders than Steele’s allies and the media have suggested.
Danchenko told the FBI that he shared “rumor and speculation” with Steele that he received from his sources, but that Steele suggested in the dossier that the information was confirmed.
He said that he heard rumors that Trump had used prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room in 2013 and that the Kremlin had video tape of it. Danchenko said that one of his sources inquired at the hotel about the alleged incident but was unable to confirm that...
Firing White People Will Improve Diversity
Disparate impact is evidence of racism. Except when it impacts white people. In which case it's awesome. And then the disparate impact of firing white people to improve diversity can be celebrated with no fear of lawsuits whatsoever.
Oil major Chevron Corp expects to reduce the dominance of white males in company management during cost-cutting this year, upping the share of senior level jobs held by women and ethnic minorities to 44% from 38% last year, the company said in a statement.
Like most of its peers in an industry struggling with the collapse of oil prices this year, Chevron is cutting spending, consolidating business units, and has asked some managers to reapply for their jobs.
In an email sent to employees this week and seen by Reuters, Chief Human Resources Officer Rhonda Morris said the company selected 26% women for global roles in a second round of appointments and, in the United States, 29% of candidates selected were from ethnically diverse candidates.
A spokeswoman for the company confirmed the details and said those selections were permanent and that the diversity ratio was expected to remain at around 44% at the end of all appointment rounds.
I suspect that most of the people being fired offer more value than Rhonda Morris does. But, as I've repeatedly said, wokeness is a fetish among overvalued massive companies with limited competition and less imagination. The woke/broke formula holds, it's just a long term process. Wokeness is just the latest gimmick embraced by...
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Seattle Riot: Police Arrest 25 After ‘Explosives’ Thrown at Officers
The Seattle Police Department declared a riot and arrested 25 people after “explosives” were thrown at officers when a protest turned violent in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood on Saturday.
FOX 10 reports:
Up to 1,000 protesters gathered about 2 p.m. Saturday for a peaceful march in solidarity with unrest and violent demonstrations in Portland. By 4 p.m., crowds had broken away from the protest, setting fires to construction trailers at the Juvenile Detention Center and attacking camera crews. […]
Police reported multiple explosions in the area and multiple fires, including one inside the East Precinct, where rioters breached a security fence to vandalize the building. Police are investigating “possible explosive damage” to the walls of the East Precinct and more explosives being thrown at police.Seattle police said the protesters were arrested for assaults on officers, obstruction, and failure to disperse. Prior to announcing the arrests, police shared a photo of flammable objects being hurled at officers.
Q13FOX correspondent Simone Del Rosario and others shared photos and video of protesters clashing with officers, along with images of heavily damaged buildings in the area.
Shortly after, Q13FOX reporter Brandi Kruse also shared footage of a nearby Starbucks, which was destroyed after it was set ablaze:
Dueling militias marching in Louisville Kentucky, BLM crashes; reports of multiple people shot
As of around noon, there had already been an arrest of a suspected BLM extremist:
Reports of multiple people shot at BLM protest in Louisville. One verified per Scanner Traffic – A 3% accidentally shot himself in leg. Shocker ? Other reports have not been verified. pic.twitter.com/8uhCl0fmtN
— redandblackattack (@redanblacattack) July 25, 2020
See additional footage from before and during the event below (*Language warning):
Earlier in the week an armed, all-black militia known as the “Not F–king Around Coalition” announced plans to “descend” into Louisville Saturday to demand justice for Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was killed during a drug-related police raid in March.
“This ain’t no spectator sport, you can come out if you want to. If you want to watch history, that’s cool. But understand the seriousness of the situation,” NFAC leader John Fitzgerald Johnson, aka The Real Grandmaster Jay, reportedly...
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