@shipwreckedcrew at his first interview, Danchenko confessed that he had NEVER met Millian. You mis-state this in your interesting article. 
nor does it appear that FBI was misled by Danchenko's story of an anonymous telecon. It appears that Brian Auten disbelieved true part of Danchenko's confession: that he had never met Millian and had never even had a telephone conversation with someone who identifed as Millian
Auten and FBI appear to have decided that, for some obscure reason, Danchenko was "minimizing" his contact with Millian and accordingly disregarded his confession in favor of the original fabrications of the dossier.
the information in Danchenko's confession would have undermined the then fresh Intel Community Assessment, which the FBI had not only just endorsed but had insisted on the inclusion of the information undermined by Danchenko's confession
instead of recalling that component of the ICA (as the CIA had done when they learned that Curveball was not in a position to know the truth or falsity of his WMD allegations), the FBI permitted the sore to fester and become infected: Auten deep-sixed the Danchenko interview
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