Kash’s Corner: The ‘Confidential Human Sources’ Sham | Special Episode With Guest-Host Lee Smith
Kash's Corner
Kash Patel
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode of Kash’s Corner, New York Times best-selling author Lee Smith guest hosts with Jan Jekielek and dives into new John Durham filings in the Igor Danchenko case.
“Wait a minute—the FBI had this guy under a counterintelligence investigation, and then they hire him as a confidential human source?”
Danchenko was the subject of an FBI investigation from 2009 to 2011 for apparently talking to a Brookings Institution coworker about selling classified information for money. According to a new filing in the Danchenko case, the FBI signed Danchenko on as a paid confidential human source in March 2017.
According to Lee Smith, the FBI has “outsourced” its lies, and John Durham should go after the agency to hold to account the people behind Russiagate and the Mar-a-Lago raid—scandals that Lee Smith views as intrinsically connected.
“They bury their corruption, and they make it impossible for people to ask questions. And then they turn it around on the people who are asking questions, saying, ‘Oh, no, no no. You’re the problem. You’re the one who’s going to get people killed,” says Lee Smith.
In 2017, Congressman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) was accused of endangering sources after demanding documents from the DOJ, and a recent New York Times article suggests that documents at Mar-a-Lago could compromise human intelligence sources.
Will Igor Danchenko ultimately be acquitted like Michael Sussmann? Did DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz know Danchenko was an FBI confidential source when he put out his 2019 report?
“The scandal grows larger and larger the more information we have,” says Lee Smith.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. We've got something really special for you today. Actually, cash is off the grid for a while. |
| 0:18.5 | So we actually got our mutual friend Lee Smith, who is the author of |
| 0:22.7 | The Plot Against the President and the Permanent Coup to join us and actually guest host for a day. |
| 0:28.5 | Hey everybody, welcome back to Cash's Corner. |
| 0:33.3 | Lee, you know, it's so fitting that you would be the one to be guest hosting today because I actually |
| 0:39.9 | became aware of Cash Patel and his role in all of this in your book, The Plot Against the President, |
| 0:45.9 | and it was really you, I believe, who connected us ultimately at the beginning. |
| 0:50.0 | Oh, I'm very happy to hear it. It's been an immensely profitable relationship, not just for |
| 0:55.7 | you and Cash and Epoch Times, but really, I mean, just all the different, all the information |
| 1:00.4 | that you guys provide, the insight that the show provides, and, you know, you really launched |
| 1:06.5 | cash as a media superstar. You see on truth truth social, hundreds of thousands of followers. |
| 1:12.6 | I have to say, I mean, I'm really surprised, but every time I look at the stuff that he's posting, |
| 1:17.6 | it's brilliant, it's informative, it's a lot of fun, so I couldn't be happier to have been the person |
| 1:24.6 | who introduced the two of you. |
| 1:26.6 | You know, when you read the plot against the president, I'm just kind of thinking back a little bit. |
| 1:31.3 | You know, Cash really understood how the DOJ worked. |
| 1:35.3 | And he, you know, the thing that really, really made an impression on me was that he really, he figured out how to depose these witnesses in ways that they could not kind of |
| 1:46.5 | get out of the fact that they really knew nothing about Russia collusion. And that kind of set the |
| 1:51.2 | stage for unraveling Russia Gate. |
| 1:55.2 | Yeah, I mean, that, that was one of the really important parts, you know, writing the book |
| 1:59.5 | and telling the story. I had to say also, I, you know, I didn't know that authors necessarily have favorite lines |
| 2:06.3 | or favorite passages from their book, but there's a part where Cash is talking about, you know, |
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