In that so-called “Russiagate” investigation, it's now known that evidence was fabricated before it was submitted to a federal court to obtain permission for the FBI to spy on the Trump campaign. That court later voided some of the warrants it had authorized because of the false statements.
Solomon reported, “Even more stunning, Durham confirmed that the FBI had concerns about Danchenko's ties to Russian intelligence a decade earlier, opening up a counterintelligence probe on him after learning he was trying to buy classified information from the Obama administration.”
Durham's own explanation was that: “As has been publicly reported, the defendant was the subject of an FBI counterintelligence investigation from 2009 to 2011. In late 2008, while the defendant was employed by a prominent think tank in Washington, D.C., the defendant engaged two fellow employees about whether one of the employees might be willing or able in the future to provide classified information in exchange for money.”
The document charges that Danchenko knew people “who would be willing to pay money in exchange for classified information,” after one of the “employees” suggested he might b e able to enter the Barack Obama administration and gain access to those documents.