Mr. Auten said that that information would have been critical to FBI investigators trying to judge the reliability of the allegations in the dossier, which was compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele.
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He later said the interviews were more about “breaking the ice” with Mr. Danchenko rather than eliciting new information for the Trump-Russia probe.
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