Thread by @ClimateAudit

@shipwreckedcrew the person most responsible for burying the Danchenko information was SIA Brian Auten. He appears to have disseminated 2-page summary memo, which concealed inconsistencies arising from Danchenko interview, while not distributing
the 57-page memorandum on Danchenko, other than

@shipwreckedcrew 2/ placing it in the Crossfire case file, where it appears to have remained unread until re-discovered by Horowitz. At least, all FBI officials senior to Auten profess ignorance of the document and that they know nothing except what was in 2-page memorandum.

@shipwreckedcrew 3/ this seems surprisingly incurious to me, but not impossible. From a professional perspective, how plausible is it that information in Auten's 57 page memo did in fact remain unknown to FBI officials?

@shipwreckedcrew 4/ a second oddity in failure to disseminate is that Auten pointed at the interviewing Case Agent as having responsibility. Somma transferred out of active Crossfire in Feb 2017 (more or less as Danchenko EC was being finalized).

@shipwreckedcrew 5/ a still unidentified WFO agent assumed carriage of Danchenko and interviewed him again in March and May 2017, but appointment of Mueller put an end to all efforts to validate Steele.

@shipwreckedcrew 6/ SSA Pientka had commenced extended validation of Steele in early Nov 2016 after Steele termination, but he was countermanded by Priestap and McCabe who ordered stop to Steele validation. Pientka transferred out of Crossfire in protest (tho he did some subsequent odd jobs).