Posted on 10/20/2017 8:17:01 AM PDT by mandaladon
The number of people who could have provided BuzzFeed News with a copy of the infamous Trump dossier is vanishingly small. Only a few people had access to the full document, which consists of 17 memos dated between June 20, 2016 and Dec. 13.
One person who was provided a copy of the salacious document, written by former British spy Christopher Steele, is Arizona Sen. John McCain. But McCain, who has already acknowledged providing an early version of the dossier to former FBI Director James Comey, denied this week that he also gave a version to BuzzFeed, which published it on Jan. 10.
“I gave it to no one except for the director of the FBI. I don’t know why you’re digging this up now,” McCain said during a testy exchange with The Daily Caller on Wednesday.
McCain was asked whether he was BuzzFeed’s source after the Republican’s office declined to answer direct questions on the matter.
Only a few people are known to have had possession of the full 35-page document before BuzzFeed obtained its copy.
In addition to McCain and Steele, opposition research firm Fusion GPS had the dossier, as did David J. Kramer, a former State Department official and an associate of McCain’s.
Earlier this week, BuzzFeed reporter Ken Bensinger disclosed in federal court — in response to a lawsuit related to the dossier — that he obtained a copy of the report in December. Bensinger said that his source allowed him to take photographs of the dossier.
No, that was Linda.
Of course he denies it.
What would anybody expect?...................
Not exactly Mr Credibility.
John McCain is part of the conspiracy to kill Trump politically. He (McCain) is a professional character assassin.
A lot of McCain chickens are starting to come home to roost...
Only if those darn hobbits would believe him...
How would he remember? He has brain cancer.
I’d like to see more of the chickens released.
How about if Trump directs the release of all of McTraitor’s military records that the songbird’s father and others had sealed.
Let’s see how he feels about that type of records release.
How’s that glioblastoma treating you, Juan?
Someone commissioned Fusion GPS to commission Steele to write (fabricate) the dossier. Whoever commissioned it obviously was one of the first recipients of the dossier when it was finished. McCain was one of the first recipients of the dossier, in fact the only recipient besides Fusion GPS who we can trace directly back to Steele rather than some “unnamed source” further down the line.
McCain is a liar.
The story article out the possibility that Comey was the source.
Then how did he get it and then pass it to the FBI?
McCain has never been the brightest bulb in the Senate.
Juan McDemoccRat’s lips are moving ...
Wut?
Once a Songbird, always a Songbird.
LOL make this hateful disgusting man sweat. Put him on the defense, go after him relentlessly.
Why would McLame send a “trusted” assistant overseas to retrieve a copy of the dossier, then turn it over to the FBI if he wasn’t personally involved in its creation? All he had to do was alert the FBI of its existence, and let them do the rest. It wasn’t his business, nor his official duty to obtain a personal copy of the dossier. He used the power of his office to pursue his anti-Trump agenda. I’d like to know who paid for the airfare for the aide. Did McLame pay for it out of his own pocket, or did he use tax payer money?
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