The Justice Department plans to produce a"large volume" of classified materials this week in the Russiagate case against the main source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele's anti-Trump dossier.
"To date, the government has produced over 60,000 documents in unclassified discovery. A portion of these documents were originally marked 'classified' and the government has worked with the appropriate declassification authorities to produce the documents in an unclassified format," Durham said in the filing submitted to federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia.
The case revolves around Igor Danchenko, a Russian researcher based in the United States, who was charged in November with five counts of making false statements to the FBI in 2017 about the information he provided to Steele for his discredited dossier during the 2016 election.
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded in December 2019 that Steele's dossier played a"central and essential" role in the FBI's effort to obtain wiretap orders against former Trump campaign associate Carter Page. The Justice Department watchdog determined the FBI’s investigation was filled with serious missteps and errors and concealed potentially exculpatory information from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.