The Mueller mistakes

 Daily Caller:

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office established a “dossier validation” unit consisting of at least five FBI agents, but the 448-page Mueller report failed to disclose the team’s findings that none of Christopher Steele’s reporting could be corroborated.

The Mueller Special Counsel office also shut down attempts by FBI agents to investigate a Clinton crony with high-level connections to Putin and failed to complete an espionage investigation into Steele’s Russian primary sub-source. (RELATED: CLEVELAND: America Has A Two-Tiered Justice System And The FBI Just Proved It)

Testimony and court filings in Special Counsel John Durham’s criminal case against Steele dossier primary sub-source Igor Danchenko revealed these details. So, while a jury acquitted Danchenko earlier this week of the false statements’ charges brought by Durham, the case serves, not as an indictment of Durham, but of Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation.
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Testimony from the Danchenko case now establishes that Special Counsel Mueller’s team intentionally buried concerns that the Steele dossier served as part of a Russian disinformation campaign.

Two agents assigned to Special Counsel Mueller’s team, Brittany Hertzog and Amy Anderson, raised concerns about Democrat operative Charles Dolan. Dolan’s connection to the Danchenko case stemmed from email conversations between the two in which Dolan falsely claimed he “had lunch with a GOP friend who knows the players” involved in the departure of Paul Manafort from Trump’s campaign.

The Steele dossier would later include that detail in the memoranda provided to the FBI, as well as names of Russians to whom Dolan was connected. Dolan was also connected to another Russian dossier source Olga Galkina.

As FBI intelligence agent Hertzog explained at trial, she had serious concerns about Dolan because he had connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov.

As “a longtime ally and close confidant to Russian President Vladimir Putin,” Hertzog testified, Peskov “would have likely overseen Russian propaganda and disinformation campaigns.” Additionally, Dolan previously worked for a firm that oversaw a PR campaign for the Kremlin.

Those connections, as well as Dolan’s business relationship with Russian dossier sub-source Galkina and his travel to Cyprus in the summer of 2016 to meet with her, led agent Hertzog and Supervisory Special Agent Amy Anderson to recommend Dolan be interviewed.
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That a later investigation by Special Counsel Durham vindicated Dolan, however, does not excuse Special Counsel Mueller’s refusal to open an investigation into Dolan to assess whether he knowingly, or unknowingly, fed Christopher Steele Russian disinformation.

Dolan’s connections to high-level Russians far exceeded the connections Trump campaign volunteers George Papadopoulos and Carter Page had with Putin cronies which the FBI had used to justify launching investigations into them under the Crossfire Hurricane umbrella investigation.
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There is much more.

 I think the Mueller probe was clearly flawed and I suspect it was because it focused too much on trying to prove there was a Trump-Russia collusion instead of on the attempts to mislead voters about Trump. There was in fact no evidence of collusion between Trump and his campaign with Russia.  The suggestion that there was, came from a fraudulent attempt by the Clinton campaign.  

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