Posted on 03/15/2019 6:55:05 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Newly unsealed court filings show how the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and an associate shared with the FBI and a host of media outlets the unverified dossier that alleged the Russians had compromising information on now-President Trump.
the source for BuzzFeed after it published the dossier, which was funded by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, but had acknowledged giving it to the FBI.
In a newly unsealed declaration from September, former senior counterintelligence FBI agent Bill Priestap confirmed that the FBI received a copy of the first 33 pages of the dossier in December 2016 from McCain.
In another filing, David Kramer -- a former State Department official and McCain associate -- said in a Dec. 13, 2017, deposition that the dossier was given to him by author and former British spy Christopher Steele, which he then provided to more than a dozen journalists at outlets including CNN, BuzzFeed and The Washington Post. The details were first reported by The Daily Caller.
The report was also shared with State Department official Victoria Nuland, Obama National Security Council official Celeste Wallander and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.
The filings were unsealed as part of an ongoing libel case against BuzzFeed by a Russian businessman.
In his deposition, Kramer said that McCain gave a copy of the dossier to then-FBI Director James Comey on Dec. 9. Kramer told investigators that it was the sense from Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson that “having Senator McCain provide it to the FBI would give it a little more oomph than it had had up until that point.”
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With the blessing of Mitch and Ryan ?????
This isn’t a surprise. Didn’t McCain fess up to it early on?
All snakes in the grass
Any word from daddy’s little girl, yet?
One of the snakes is under the grass now.Bye Johnny.
The eight years of Obama notwithstanding, I am happy that back-stabbing SOB never became President.
After all in her view her Daddy was the most honorable man ever!
Meghan is in deep denial about her Daddy and the kind of man he really was.
I am happy that back-stabbing SOB never became President.
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There was never any chance of that.
McCain was a willing Designated Loser.
And I sure hope none of that "but he was a war hero" bull is posted here, but I imagine it will be. Gets really old.
Is THAT ever the truth! It became undeniably evident when he effectively conceded the election during that second debate when he gave his assurances that America had nothing to fear of an Obama presidency. The election was over at that point.
as long as that bag of vomit is burning in hell right now...
McCain already proudly admitted to his role in the dossier affair. What I really want to know is what role Ryan, McConnell, Romney, and other republicans played in spreading it around. We all know that it wasn’t just McCain and his lackey. After all, they were just as interested as the dems in derailing and removing Trump, and are still engaged in that effort.
This is why I never liked or trusted McCain. The guy was another poor loser who hated Trump and did all he could to undermine the President.
Shut up, Meg(han)!
did McCain also give a copy to Kilimnik?
There once was a man named Kilimnik
Who is really a bit of a gimmick
He worked for McCain’s
IRI Moscow, but then again
Mueller says he’s just a mimic
When that brainwashed freak thumbs downed the repeal of
muslimmarxistcare that was a sharp shiv in all American
patriots backs
“Meghan is in deep denial about her Daddy and the kind of man he really was.”
This is probably true of many fathers and their children, regardless whether the father was a scoundrel or a Prince, or both.
I knew exactly who my father was. An $sshole. And many hours in a therapist’s chair.
McCain stabbed us in the back every chance he got. Like he was working for the other side. They must have had something “really bad” on him.
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