McCarthy, as always, writes an interesting and important article about Danchenko which gets some key points right but makes a couple of gross errors. Frustrating. (In fairness, unless you're really in the weeds, it's hard to know the details.)
2/ here's a simple but important error. McC notes that FBI began FISA process on Danchenko in July 2010, that FISA process abandoned when D left country "two months later", but that D "did eventually come back" and sit for Jan 2017 FBI interviews.
3/ what's the error? Danchenko actually returned to Washington on or before **October 2010**. He was gone for maybe a month. He's been working in Washington area for the past 10 years. He has a US-born daughter.
4/ McCarthy's penultimate sentence was "A good friend of mine likes to say, “It’s always worse than you think.”"
This would also be true of the Danchenko FISA.
5/ second, McCarthy assumes that Danchenko was the supplier of the extremely important Report 95 allegation of "a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” between Trump campaign and Russian leadership.
6/ Report 80 (the pee tape memo) has gotten more oxygen but Report 95, issued just after Wikileaks dropped DNC emails, was the report that more or less fulfilled the Democrat wish list (the Democrat Wet Dream Report, for short).
5/ I've got a few more comments. Since McC has cordially commented, I'll be a bit more detailed.
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.