Brookings Institute Stink Tank (Steele Dossier Nexus)

Source: The Federalist

Why Special Counsel John Durham Subpoenaed The Brookings Institution

Brookings was ground zero for the Russia collusion hoax, with many key staff embroiled in the damaging lie that Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016 election. 

By Margot Cleveland | NOVEMBER 12, 2021

 
In April 2021, the Brookings Institution publicly confirmed that Special Counsel John Durham had subpoenaed records from the D.C.-based left-wing think tank in December 2020. The friendly reporters at Time magazine framed the subpoena as limited to the decades-old employment record of former Brookings staffer Igor Danchenko. 

Last week's indictment of Danchenko, however, provides a perfect reminder that Brookings was ground zero for the Russia collusion hoax, with many key staff embroiled in the damaging lie that Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016 election. 

On Thursday last, Durham charged Danchenko in a five-count indictment with lying to the FBI during the agents' questioning of him related to his role as Christopher Steele's "Primary Sub-Source" for the notorious dossier that enabled Obama administration surveillance of the Trump campaign. The details in the 39-page speaking indictment provide further evidence that Durham's team has been steadily unraveling the mess of Spygate, with the most recent thread leading to the Clinton camp—and the left-leaning Brookings Institution.

Did Danchenko Talk To 'PR Executive-1'?

While the indictment charged Danchenko with lying to the FBI about Sergei Millian serving as a sub-source for the dossier, it was Danchenko’s allegedly false claim that he never communicated with "PR Executive-1" that proves more significant for purposes of uncovering the truth behind the Russia conspiracy hoax.

Shortly after the indictment was unsealed, attorney Ralph Martin confirmed that his client, Charles Dolan Jr., was the unnamed "PR Executive-1." The revelation that Danchenko used Dolan as a "sub-source" for the dossier is significant because of Dolan’s long-time connections to the Clintons and the Democrat Party—and because none of what appears to have been sourced to Dolan was true, including one claim in the dossier that Dolan invented.

So, with the Danchenko indictment, the public now knows that a Clinton crony in the person of Dolan fed Danchenko false information that Danchenko then presented to Steele as intel. Steele then regurgitated Danchenko’s claims in the Clinton campaign-funded dossier the former MI6 agent provided the FBI.

The indictment’s discussion of the Dolan-Danchenko relationship revealed another detail that, while unimportant for purposes of the charged crimes, proves significant to understand the interrelationship of the many actors pushing the Russian collusion hoax — namely, how Danchenko and Dolan met.

Talk About Incestuous DC Relationships

According to the indictment, in February 2016 a Brookings Institution employee, Fiona Hill, introduced Danchenko to Dolan. Danchenko knew Hill, as he had also worked for the think tank as a Russia analyst from about 2005 to 2010. During that time, as the inspector general's report on FISA abuse would later reveal, Danchenko was under investigation for being a potential Russian agent.

Significantly, Hill also introduced Danchenko to Steele, a longtime friend of hers, in about 2010. Following Hill’s introduction of Danchenko and Steele, Steele's firm Orbis hired Danchenko as a contractor for various work, ultimately resulting in Danchenko serving as the "Primary Subsource" for the Steele dossier.

Hill also communicated with Steele about his work on the dossier, meeting with him in October 2016 while she still worked for the Brookings Institution. Hill continued to speak with Steele into 2017, after she had left the Brookings Institution and accepted a position in the Trump administration with the National Security Council.

Hills was not the only Brookings employee connected to the Russia collusion hoax. As Chuck Ross detailed for The Daily Caller more than a year ago, testimony by Steele in the defamation case filed against him in the United Kingdom by Aleksej Gubarev, a Russian tech executive, established that the president of the Brookings Institution at the time, Strobe Talbott, called Steele "out of the blue in August 2016," asking about Steele's anti-Trump project.

Like Dolan, Talbott’s Clinton-crony credentials were impressive: He served as a deputy secretary of state under President Clinton and on the State Department's foreign affairs advisory board at the time Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state.

Clinton's top friend at the Brookings Institution would speak with Steele again. The lead lawyer in the U.K. defamation case against Steele stated that Steele "telephone[d] Mr. Talbott on 2nd or 3rd November 2016, and Mr. Talbott asks for copies of the memoranda to discuss with John Kerry and other officials at the State Department." Fusion GPS later provided a copy of the dossier to Talbott.

The Plot Speeds Up After the 2016 Election

Then, after Trump's surprise 2016 defeat of Hillary Clinton, according to the lawyer taking on Steele, Steele wrote to the Brookings president on November 12, 2016 about the dossier: "Dear Strobe, I know this is not straight forward but we need to discuss the package we delivered to you the other week, and the sooner the better. What you thought of it, what you did with it, how we (both) should handle it and the issues it highlights going forward, etc."

Talbott later provided Hill, who was then at the State Department under the Trump administration, a copy of the dossier, one day before BuzzFeed published it.

Steele's testimony in the U.K. defamation case revealed further connections to the Brookings Institution, with Steele claiming either Susan Rice, who was Barack Obama's national security advisor at the time, or Victoria Nuland, Obama's assistant secretary of state, had briefed Talbott on the work Steele was doing. In his testimony, Steele noted Rice and Nuland had been Talbott's colleagues at Brookings.

Steele pointed out that Talbott had been out of government work for 15 years. Then Steele reiterated his claim: "He was a Russian expert," referring to Talbott, "He was consulted, I believe, by both National Security Advisor Rice and Assistant Secretary Nuland, both of whom worked with him in the Brookings Institution" before they joined the Obama administration. Steele further testified that he understood Talbott had been speaking with both Nuland and another Obama secretary of state, John Kerry.

A spokeswoman for Rice later told The Daily Caller that it was "utterly and completely false" that Rice had spoken with Talbott regarding Steele's investigation. Conversely, Nuland, who had served as the chief of staff for Talbott when the latter had served as deputy secretary of state in the Bill Clinton administration, declined The Daily Caller's request for comment.

Nuland's Connections to Brookings, the Steele Dossier

While Nuland's relationship with Talbott and Brookings dated back to at least the 1990s during the Clinton administration, it remained fresh in 2016 and beyond. Just two years before the Steele dossier came on the scene, Nuland and her husband, Robert Kagan, who served as a senior fellow at Brookings, were described as "the ultimate American power couple." Following Trump's election, Nuland joined Brookings as a non-resident scholar, although she is now back officially working for Democrats as the Biden administration's number three diplomat.

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Watch Russia's Sergey Lavrov blow off the Jewess Victoria Nuland five years ago. This should be an insight into the Russian intelligence services knowing full well what is going on inside Nuland's head and at the Brooking Institute stink tank.

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