Russian analyst set to face trial on charges of lying to FBI

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Russian analyst set to face trial on charges of lying to FBIALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Five years after the term “Steele dossier” entered the political lexicon, a think tank analyst who contributed to research about Donald Trump and Russia goes on trial Tuesday for lying to the FBI about his sources of information.Igor Danchenko is the third person to be prosecuted by Special Counsel John Durham, who was appointed to investigate the origins of “Crossfire Hurricane” — the designation given to the FBI’s 2016 probe into former president Trump’s Russia connections.The compilation of research files, which included salacious rumors and unproven assertions, came to be familiarly known as the “Steele dossier.” Though the dossier did not help launch the FBI’s investigation into potential coordination between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, the Justice Department did rely on it when it applied for and received warrants to monitor the communications of a former Trump campaign adviser.Live Updates: Russia-Ukraine WarRussia unleashes biggest attacks in Ukraine in monthsHong Kong nixes US sanctions on Russian-owned superyachtPoll: Majority in US see relations with adversaries souringAs part of its efforts to verify information in the dossier, the FBI interviewed Danchenko in 2017.The indictment says the FBI could have better judged the veracity of the Steele dossier had it known that a Democratic operative was the source of much of its information."

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