Who will stop him?
Posted on 07/11/2017 1:54:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona will face questions as part of a defamation lawsuit regarding his role in the leaking of the opposition research dossier former British spy Chris Steele compiled on President Donald Trump.
The dossier, Steele and his London firm Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd. produced, made numerous unsubstantiated claims of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The dossier also included salacious details related to Trump’s alleged sexual perversion, which the dossier indicates left him vulnerable to Russian blackmailing.
Two defamation lawsuits, one in the U.K. and one in the U.S., are being brought against Steele and Orbis by attorneys for Cyprus based venture capitalist and tech expert Aleksej Gubarev, who was accused of hacking the Democratic National Committee (DNC) by Steele’s Russian sources.
The dossier includes unsubstantiated claims alleging Gubarev’s U.S.-based global web hosting firms XBT and Webzilla planted digital bugs, transmitted viruses and attempted to alter DNC data.
According to a court document related to the British suit obtained by McClatchy, McCain discussed the dossier with former British Ambassador to Moscow Sir Andrew Wood and they, along with Steele and former Department of State official David Kramer, decided the information should be shared with British and American authorities.
“The Defendants considered that the issues were self-evidently relevant to the national security of the US, UK and their allies,” the document says, explaining why Steele and his partner, Christopher Burrows, felt they should share the document with intelligence officials.
McCain issued a statement on Jan. 11, one day after Buzzfeed News published the explosive dossier, indicating that he had received the document prior to it being made public and “Upon examination of the contents, and unable to make a judgment about their accuracy, [he] delivered the information to the director of the FBI.”
The defendants’ counsel repeatedly reference McCain and Kramer in the court documents, likely as part of their strategy to navigate the defamation allegation by demonstrating the defendants were not acting maliciously but rather out of genuine concern for U.K. and U.S. national security. This contention is made more plausible by the fact that McCain and Kramer, who clearly had no financial motivation, came to the conclusion that the dossier should be shared with authorities.
In the court document, Steele’s barrister Nicola Cain, claims the portion of the dossier related to Gubarev, which was compiled weeks after the election and after Steele’s clients had stopped paying for the information, amounted to raw intelligence.
Val Gurvits, an attorney leading a similar U.S. defamation suit against Buzzfeed, dismissed Cain’s argument.
“The value of this document (dossier) is only if it is published,” Gurvits told McClatchy. “It is absolutely of no value to anybody unless it is published. Slander is slander when you say it to one person.”
Lock him up!
Hope he is grilled until he is well done.
This document made it into the press based on Trump being informed it existed. Then other media outlets jumped on sharing it because another outlet had reported it.
Complete work of fiction by Fusion GPS and now we find that same that same outfit was involved with the Russian lawyer meeting Don Jr.
#McCainIsATraitor
He looks like a security risk every day that passes.
Envious passed over presidential candidate.
NeverTrumper McCain knew His Leakyness was the right place to put this crap.
Who will stop him?
Or at least until he chimps out in public.
This bitter old bastard will never stop his evil
WOW! Awesome pay per view event! Strawberries anyone?
I would love to see McCain lose his shirt, but I don’t see from I read here (unless I’m missing something) that he’s in jeopardy by delivering the “dossier” to the FBI. If, however, McCain leaked it to the press then hopefully that will come out in the lawsuits and he will be in it up to his nose.
Senator McSlander
check out the story on McCain here - 11th paragraph down:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/11/trump-russia-report-opposition-research-john-mccain
McCain just didn’t happen to have this fall into his lap. He went and got a friend to go get it.
He gives it to Comey on 12/9/2016 when Comey already knows about the dossier and was willing to pay 50k for more.
Replace McCain’s name with Donald Trump Jr. in this story
If Jr. gets whacked in any way, the McCain has to get whacked in the same way.
There is the collusion
MCShamey is lying traitorous coward
Lick him and Comey up in the same cell
McCain is a terrible person. He should be in prison.
Our wack-job senator McPain is being paged for questioning.
He has a lot of ‘splainin to do.
He sent someone to the UK to pick up this dossier, yes he did, his hands are dirty in more ways than one.
Getting rid of him in AZ is harder than prosecuting a Clinton.
I know absolutely no one who has voted for him in years but he always seems to win re-election just to make our lives miserable.
See my tagline for further thoughts regarding John McCain.
J.D Hayworth was set to clean his clock until the Dems realized they were about to lose their best friend and poured mega bucks into his campaign coffers. As an old retired navy man the only recognition I would give him is a root salute!
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