The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s headquarters in Washington, Aug. 22.
Photo:
Al Drago/Bloomberg News
Special counsel
John Durham’s
inquiry into the Russia-collusion hoax isn’t over. We learned a lot from the trial of
Michael Sussmann,
despite his May acquittal in the District of Columbia. Mr. Durham’s team revealed that
Rodney Joffe,
a Sussmann associate who was involved in gathering derogatory information about
was also a confidential source for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
On Tuesday Mr. Durham started making his case against another FBI confidential source,
Igor Danchenko,
in Alexandria, Va. Whatever the outcome, the trial will reveal more about how the FBI was misled by informants and in turn misused them.
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The use of confidential informants by law enforcement, although a necessary tool, is always fraught with danger. That is…
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