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The High Comedy of Spygate BRIAN CATES

The recently unsealed deposition of an associate of the late Sen. John McCain really would be a tale of high comedy if its implications weren’t so serious.

The Spygate plotters inside the government agencies and the DNC Media Complex were in such a hurry to cover their tracks and launch attacks on the incoming Trump administration that they made several crucial mistakes.

Former McCain associate David Kramer’s deposition was unsealed March 14, and you can read my earlier column on it, entitled “The Spygate ‘Insurance Policy’ Coup Never Had a Chance.”

Page 48 of the deposition is where Kramer is asked about what media contacts he had, once he had passed Christopher Steele’s dossier to McCain. Kramer had received the dossier from Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson at the firm’s office on Nov. 29, 2016, and McCain gave then-FBI Director James Comey the dossier on Dec. 9, 2016. So there was a 10-day gap between Kramer receiving the dossier from Fusion GPS and McCain passing it on to the FBI.

When discussing his contact with reporters about the dossier, Kramer reveals that he was contacted directly by a number of reporters. When these media people suddenly start reaching out to him out of the blue, Kramer testifies that he was completely mystified as to how they knew all about his role in this matter.

Q: Up until, let’s say, December 10th when you understood that The Senator had gone to Director Comey, had you yourself had any communications with media outlets about The Memos?

A: December 10th? I couldn’t tell you exact dates, but I was contacted by Mother Jones, and the Guardian, and ABC News. And then the Washington Post, there was a reporter whom I had known, who we had been talking to throughout The Campaign before I knew the existence of this, and became clear to me that he was aware of the document as well. I’m trying to think if there were any others. I was not in touch with New York Times. And I was in touch with McClatchy. And also up until December 10th I think those were the ones. But most of the ones I mentioned contacted me. How they knew my role, I don’t know. But I did not reach out to them. But they were aware that I had given it to Senator McCain.

It becomes obvious that either Simpson or Steele or both had given Kramer’s name and number to numerous reporters immediately after Kramer had received two different versions of Steele’s dossier....