Russian analyst who worked with Christopher Steele arrested in Durham probe
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Washington — A Russian analyst who worked with Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence officer behind a controversial dossier about former President Donald Trump and Russia, was arrested Thursday by federal law enforcement, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News.
The arrest of Igor Danchenko stems from a broad investigation led by special counsel John Durham into the origins of the FBI's probe of Mr. Trump's alleged links to the Kremlin. The New York Times was first to report Danchenko was taken into custody. It's unknown what Danchenko is charged with.
Danchenko, employed by Steele, was the primary researcher for what came to be known as the Steele dossier, according to the New York Times. The document was a collection of opposition research notes that contained unproven claims about Mr. Trump and his 2016 campaign, some of which have since been shown to be false. The dossier came under scrutiny after some of the accusations contained in it were cited by FBI investigators in an application to secure a warrants to surveil a former Trump campaign aide, Carter Page.
U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade.
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