{"id":1684357,"date":"2022-10-11T20:19:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T00:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1684357"},"modified":"2022-10-11T20:21:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T00:21:19","slug":"fbi-offered-christopher-steele-1m-for-evidence-backing-up-dossier-claims-about-trump-fbi-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-offered-christopher-steele-1m-for-evidence-backing-up-dossier-claims-about-trump-fbi-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Offered Christopher Steele $1M For Evidence Backing Up Dossier Claims About Trump: FBI Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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-offered-christopher-steele-1m-for-evidence-backing-up-dossier-claims-about-trump-fbi-analyst%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=1684357&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>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI<\/a> offered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/christopher-steele\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Steele<\/a> $1 million if he could prove allegations recorded in his now-infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/steele-dossier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dossier<\/a>, a senior FBI analyst said in court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>FBI analyst Brian Auten testified in the trial of Igor Danchenko, the primary source of allegations in Steele\u2019s dossier, that the bureau placed a $1 million price tag on confirmation of the dossier\u2019s outlandish allegations. Steele was unable to provide any evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Auten said he and a group of FBI agents met with Steele in October of 2021 and offered the former British spy $1 million for evidence supporting the dossier, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/durham-probe-fbi-offered-christopher-steele-1-million-corroborate-trump-allegations-dossier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>. The FBI\u2019s offer came years after it had used the dossier\u2019s claims to secure FISA warrants to surveil former President Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn October 21, 2016, did you have any information to corroborate that information?\u201d Durham asked Auten, referencing the date the first FISA application to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page was filed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d Auten responded, according to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Auten testified that the FBI offered Steele \u201cup to $1 million\u201d for proof substantiating allegations made in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2018\/politics\/steele-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of reports to the bureau over the course of several months in 2016. The analyst said Steele never received any money because he could not \u201cprove the allegations,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/11\/politics\/steele-dossier-fbi-durham-danchenko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>. Steel\u2019s reports were eventually compiled into the dossier first published by BuzzFeed News in January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Danchenko has pleaded not guilty to lying to the FBI. His trial is the last scheduled as part of special counsel John Durham\u2019s investigation into the origins of the Trump\/Russia collusion hoax before Durham issues his final report.<\/p>\n<p>Durham has scored one guilty plea from former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/08\/19\/former-fbi-attorney-pleads-guilty-durham-398605#:~:text=Kevin%20Clinesmith%20admitted%20to%20altering,Trump%20campaign%20adviser%20Carter%20Page.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted<\/a> to altering an email that was used to obtain a FISA warrant against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Durham struck out against former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-jury-clears-former-clinton-attorney-michael-sussmann-of-lying-to-fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquitted<\/a> by a Washington, D.C., jury in May of a charge of lying to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>In July of this year, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that according to FBI whistleblowers, Auten was involved in suppressing an investigation into Hunter Biden during President Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I]n August 2020, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment which was used by a FBI Headquarters \u2026 team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease. Based on allegations, verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation,\u201d Grassley wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/grassley_to_justice_deptfbipoliticalbiasfollowup.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI offered Christopher Steele $1 million if he could prove allegations recorded in his now-infamous dossier, a senior FBI analyst said in court on Tuesday. FBI analyst Brian Auten testified in the trial of Igor Danchenko, the primary source of allegations in Steele\u2019s dossier, that the bureau placed a $1 million price tag on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1684359,"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-1684357","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\/1684357","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1684359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}