Judging Freedom - FBI offered Christopher Steele $1 million to prove dossier claims

Episode Date: October 13, 2022

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Hi, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Thursday, October 13, 2022. It's about 10.50 Barr in the Trump administration to investigate the origins of the Russia-Trump collusion, if you want to call it a hoax, if you want to call it Mueller investigation, whatever you want to call it, that whole hullabaloo. He indicted three people, one Kevin Clinesmith, a young assistant lawyer at the FBI who pleaded guilty to filing a false document with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Mr. Clinesmith probably will lose his license to practice law for five years and then he'll get it back. He was sentenced to six months of probation or house confinement. Michael Sussman, Hillary Clinton's lawyer, was indicted for lying to the FBI during the course of the trial. The FBI agents on the stand under withering cross-examination for Mr. Sussman's lawyer. Sussman is a lawyer who's the defendant. He has

his own lawyer representing him in the courtroom. His lawyer cross-examined the FBI agents and got them to admit that lying is part of their craft, that they in fact not only lie to people that they are interrogating, they lie to each other and they lie to their bosses. It took the jury about 30 minutes to acquit Mr. Sussman. All this is background to the point of this morning. The last of John Durham's trials is against a fellow named Ivan Dachenko. Mr. Dachenko is a Russian lawyer who is a permanent legal resident of the United States. Mr. Dachenko worked with and for Chris Steele. Chris Steele, S-T-E-E-L-E, if you remember that name, is the former British intelligence officer who prepared the infamous Trump dossier. That dossier, which was a report about 29 or 30 pages long, you can look it up if you want, it's disgusting. And it accuses then Mr. Trump,

pre-presidential days, of engaging in repellent, truly repellent personal behavior in a Moscow hotel room with more than one prostitute. The dossier has been widely discredited. But in investigating the origins of the dossier, the FBI found Mr. Dachenko. He is now indicted for, you guessed it, that favorite FBI reason for indicting, you lied to us. Never mind that we lied to you, you lied to us. These are very, very, how shall I say, thin lies. That's not my word. Those are the words of the federal judge who said it's a very, very close call as to whether I should dismiss this or not. These lies are really not significant, even if they are lies. Judge, if you feel that way, you should dismiss it. When it's a close

call, it goes to the defendant. That's not me. That's Anglo-American jurisprudence. The defendant gets every benefit of every doubt. When all things are equal or when everything is close, the defendant wins. Not in this case. So now they're trying the case before a jury, and an FBI agent is on the witness stand, and Mr. DeChenko's American lawyers are demonstrating very astutely that these are not material lies. And if they were, they were fostered by, you guessed it, FBI lies. All right. All of that is background to the following. During the course of the

cross-examination of this FBI agent, the agent admits that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, your Federal Bureau of Investigation, paid Chris Steele, the British agent, a million dollars for his research. And the research allegedly was to establish whether or not there was a relationship between Vladimir Putin slash the Russian government and Donald Trump, the then candidate for president, and whether that relationship was so dangerous that the FBI should intercede and the American public should know about it. Chris Steele was paid a million dollars to produce trash. We already knew that Chris Steele was an agent for GCHQ or MI6. GCHQ is the British domestic spying entity, like our NSA. Where have we gone? That in the supposedly two freest countries in the world, there are domestic spies,

the government spying on us. But that's where we are today. That's where Britain is today. MI6 is the British CIA, theoretically spying only on foreigners. As we know, the CIA spies domestically and MI6 spies domestically. NSA spies foreign and GCHQ spies foreign. Their lines between them have been blurred. There is an unwritten rule between American and British intelligence that they won't steal each other's agents. So for years, it was kept under wraps that Chris Steele, MI6 agent, being paid by MI6, was also being paid by the FBI. Where did that money go?

It went to Chris Steele. What did he produce? A 29-page dossier alleging that Donald Trump did horrible, disgusting things with these prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room that nobody believes and has been totally discredited. Should the FBI be able to spend your tax dollars on things like this? Absolutely not. Should there be an FBI? No, there shouldn't. It's not authorized by the Constitution. We don't need federal cops. But since the days of J. Edgar Hoover under Woodrow Wilson, that's what we have. Morris, we get it. Judge Napolitano for judging freedom.