From: johnny@invalid.net   
      
   By Jake Gibson , Brooke Singman , David Spunt   
   Published October 11, 2022   
      
   The FBI offered ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele $1   
   million to corroborate salacious allegations made in his dossier   
   against former President Donald Trump and members of his 2016 campaign,   
   but he was unable to do so, an FBI official testified Tuesday.   
      
   FBI supervisory counterintelligence analyst Brian Auten was the first   
   witness in the trial of Igor Danchenko, the Russian national who served   
   as the primary sub-source for Steele's anti-Trump dossier and has been   
   charged with five counts of making false statements to the bureau.   
      
   Auten testified that he and a group of FBI agents went overseas in   
   early October 2021 to speak with Steele about the dossier. During   
   questioning by Special Counsel John Durham on Tuesday, Auten said that   
   during those meetings the FBI offered Steele $1 million if he could   
   corroborate allegations in the dossier. Auten testified that Steele   
   could not do so.   
      
   Auten also said that the FBI had no corroboration of allegations in the   
   dossier but nevertheless took that information and inserted it into the   
   Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil former   
   Trump campaign aide Carter Page.   
      
   "On October 21, 2016 [the date of the Carter Page FISA application],   
   did you have any information to corroborate that information?" Durham   
   asked.   
      
   "No," Auten said,...   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/durham-probe-fbi-offered-christ   
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