Posted on 01/18/2018 12:48:43 PM PST by mojito
Edited on 01/18/2018 12:50:30 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
An associate of Arizona Sen. John McCain’s who handled the dossier is asking a federal judge to block the release of a videotape and transcript of a deposition he recently gave in a lawsuit related to the salacious document.
David Kramer, a former State Department official and former director at the McCain Institute for International Leadership, filed a motion in federal court in Florida asking a judge for a protective order to block the public release of his deposition.
Kramer was deposed last month by lawyers for a Russian businessman suing BuzzFeed News for publishing the dossier. The lawyers for the businessman, Aleksej Gubarev, are interested in Kramer because he is one of just a few people known to have handled the dossier after it was completed by former British spy Christopher Steele and before its Jan. 10, 2017 publication.
Gubarev’s attorneys want to find out whether BuzzFeed’s source gave any warnings about the veracity of the dossier and whether it was verified or unverified.
Steele, McCain and Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that commissioned the dossier on behalf of Democrats, have all denied being BuzzFeed’s source.
Kramer has not commented publicly on the issue.
Kramer’s lawyer, Marcos Jiminez, argued in a motion to seal that the release of the deposition would jeopardize his personal safety, make him subject to hounding from the press, and conflict with congressional investigations looking into the dossier.
Why can’t the American people see this?
It must be pretty bad.
Motion DENIED
Tough sh!thole!
He is afraid of Arkancide.
Did Trump assassinate JFK?
Kramer has filed a motion that his deposition be sealed, but the judge in the case could deny the motion and the deposition would be made public.
Yep...guilty as sin!
Do you all hear it?
It sounded like nothing a few months back. Then, I occassionally heard a hiss. Now, it’s fairly steady but still pretty quiet.
Know what it is? It’s the beginning of the beginning of the draining of the swamp. And all the swamp creatures, they don’t even know it yet, but that water level is comin down, exposing them....day by day... Soon, they’ll be pathetic, laying there exposed in their mud and shame.
It’s never too late for them to kill themselves.
Asking a Judge to ‘seal’ McCain’s deposition is just another way of saying “cover it up”!
Yep, McCain is involved in this coverup and the GOP-e is trying to save his job.
Obstruction of Justice.
Wake up GOP-e
I suspect they’ll protect McCain giving that his days are few ahead.
“I want you to protect me from the consequences of my actions”
“Why can’t the American people see this?”
No worries. Whatever is sealed, Soetoro can get unsealed.
Oh wait, that was personal.
LOL, as absurd as that question is, we can expect a Leftist to ask it publicly at some point.
This AND Lois Lerner’s! Criminals need to go to prison! I don’t care if they are from the protected Class (dems, Media, dem sympathizers).
See huma/wiener. “Canceling” divorce. Gives me slight hope of movement on law breaking political gasbags.
After Mr. McCain takes his last ‘departing flight’, my bet is Sarah Palin will begin to open up about what that campaign was really like.
Actually, Huma and the Horndog are still getting divorced-but they have agreed to cancel lawsuits, etc and settling out of court-probably in an attempt to scurry under a rock and avoid more public scrutiny...
Why the cover up ?
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