The FBI runs its own CHS program. Indicting a CHS, and putting out the amount of info about him that they have, does great damage to that program. It is the very epitome of the saying "Throwing out the baby with the bath water." It will make it more difficult to recruit sources -- SPECIFICALLY foreign intelligence sources, which are the most difficult to recruit. "Confidentiality" is the basis upon which that recruiting is done, and there is now a huge smoking hole in the middle of any such future promises to sources being recruited.DOJ -- a far more political operation no matter what your opinions are about the FBI -- made the decision to indict Smirnov and it is DOJ prosecutors who wrote and filed those documents with all that information in them. To me, I think there is an unseen hole card here that is behind this play. Smirnov is an Israeli citizen. I think some part of this is a back-handed slap at Netanyahu. It is a stand-alone 1001 count -- almost certainly a sentence of probation without more. The FBI is on record -- its own records -- saying this guy was reliable and credible for over a decade. This is all a Kabuki Theater -- but to say it is to warn off others who might want to offer evidence of Biden family corruption is two-dimensional thinking. That horse is out of the barn. It might help in the short term by giving the Biden defenders in the media something to talk about and deflect, but it's not making that problem go away.