{"id":1640769,"date":"2022-09-14T09:34:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T13:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1640769"},"modified":"2022-09-14T09:35:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T13:35:03","slug":"fbi-agents-from-muellers-team-interviewed-anti-trump-dossier-author-filing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-agents-from-muellers-team-interviewed-anti-trump-dossier-author-filing\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Agents From Mueller\u2019s Team Interviewed Anti-Trump Dossier Author: Filing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-agents-from-muellers-team-interviewed-anti-trump-dossier-author-filing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1640769&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>FBI agents working on then-special counsel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-robert-mueller\">Robert Mueller<\/a>\u2019s team interviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-christopher-steele\">Christopher Steele<\/a>, the author of the anti-Donald Trump dossier, according to a filing made public on Sept. 13.<\/p>\n<p>Agents interviewed Steele, an ex-British spy whose work was funded by Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, on Sept. 18 and Sept. 19, 2017, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/igor-danchenko-was-paid-fbi-informant-said-he-was-working-against-trump-filing_4728922.html\">the filing<\/a>, which was composed by special counsel John Durham\u2019s team and filed with the U.S. court in Alexandria, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Steele told the agents that Igor Danchenko, a Russian national, collected election-related material in the United States for Orbis Business Intelligence, Steele\u2019s company.<\/p>\n<p>Steele also said that Danchenko informed him that he met in person with Sergei Millian, a businessman and Trump supporter, at least twice, including once in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Danchenko later told the FBI, which paid him as an informant, that he actually never met with Millian. In November 2017, Danchenko told the FBI that \u201cSteele incorrectly believed the defendant had met in-person with Millian, and that he (the defendant) did not correct Steele in that misimpression,\u201d according to the new filing.<\/p>\n<p>Steele did not immediately respond to a request for comment. He has not been charged by U.S. authorities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/robert-mueller-1157604773-1200x748-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3117275\"><\/a> Former special counsel Robert Mueller on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 24, 2019. (Saul Loeb\/AFP\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>The FBI has declined to comment on the filing, made as prosecutors prepare for Danchenko\u2019s October trial on five counts of lying to the government. The bureau referred questions to the Department of Justice, which hasn\u2019t responded.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller, whose team published a report concluding there was not cooperation or coordination between Trump and his campaign and Russian actors, declined during a congressional hearing in 2019 to answer when asked if his team interviewed Steele.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am unable to address questions about the opening of the FBI\u2019s Russia investigation,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI agents working on then-special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s team interviewed Christopher Steele, the author of the anti-Donald Trump dossier, according to a filing made public on Sept. 13. Agents interviewed Steele, an ex-British spy whose work was funded by Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, on Sept. 18 and Sept. 19, 2017, according to the filing, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}