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Court files reveal role of McCain, aide in spreading anti-Trump dossier
FOX News ^ | 03-15-2019 | By Adam Shaw

Posted on 03/15/2019 2:26:31 PM PDT by Red Badger

Newly unsealed court filings show the office of the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., shared with the FBI and a host of media outlets the unverified dossier that alleged the Russians had compromising information on now-President Trump.

McCain had denied being 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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; US: Arizona; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; antitrump; coup; deepstate; doj; fbi; fusiongps; glennsimpson; mccain; senatormccain
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To: DAC21

She will ignore them all...............


21 posted on 03/15/2019 2:40:43 PM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger
Well,we can solace in the fact that McLame is wishing he had an asbestos suit right now.
22 posted on 03/15/2019 2:41:53 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: Red Badger

Maybe the Wall Street Journal will run this as their “Bottom Story of the Day”...similar to the other headlines they run like “Man leaves McDonalds after finishing meal” or something.


23 posted on 03/15/2019 2:43:29 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Red Badger

That’s why McStain is now a Dirt Stain!


24 posted on 03/15/2019 2:45:47 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: Red Badger

Kramer should have HIS life destroyed, after destroying so many
other lives.


25 posted on 03/15/2019 2:47:04 PM PDT by tennmountainman (Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: DoughtyOne

A serviceman by inheritance but not a patriot.


26 posted on 03/15/2019 2:51:38 PM PDT by A strike (Import third world become third world)
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To: Red Badger

Has the fat daughter chimed in?


27 posted on 03/15/2019 2:52:01 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

She will ignore it...................


28 posted on 03/15/2019 2:52:23 PM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

Rip his grave out and dump it in Syria.


29 posted on 03/15/2019 2:53:22 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Red Badger

They’re all tiptoeing very carefully around admitting that this document was being widely disseminated during the actual campaign. That’s where the election interference was, that’s where the collusion was. It was out there by January of 2016. They all had a sort of euphemism for it, they called it “the thing.” Hillary herself alluded to it several times in debate and on the campaign trail.


30 posted on 03/15/2019 2:55:11 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Red Badger

I think McCain realized that he had made a fool out of himself; and in fact, had been used as a tool by America’s enemies.


31 posted on 03/15/2019 2:55:21 PM PDT by donna (Finish the Wall)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Hi.

“Was there ever any doubt ?”

No.

5.56mm


32 posted on 03/15/2019 2:55:36 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: donna

No, he was full into the Never Trump mode..................


33 posted on 03/15/2019 2:56:12 PM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

And we all know he did it at the direction, and with the approval of his boss.


34 posted on 03/15/2019 3:10:01 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: KevinB
"Is it hot down there, Juan?"

I swear, if I see that F'er's face at the Pearly Gates, or the face of Ted Kennedy, or any of the other traitorous slugs who have gone before me, there's going to be Hell to pay.

35 posted on 03/15/2019 3:11:45 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Red Badger

Juan McStain, what a vicious nasty POS!

Juan is having a long agonizing visit with the Cloven-Hooved One. HeeHee


36 posted on 03/15/2019 3:16:42 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 (She will "Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves” a)
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To: SpaceBar

Actually she is now officially the morbidly obese daughter. The fatter she gets, the meaner she gets. She thinks her wretched dad is a national beloved hero, BWAH HAH HAH!!!


37 posted on 03/15/2019 3:22:08 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 (She will "Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves” a)
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To: Red Badger
I've said that we can be thankful for two things about President Obama. He prevented President McCain, and he prevented President Hillary Clinton.

I'll add another. He prevented President Romney and Vice President Ryan.

38 posted on 03/15/2019 3:40:30 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: Red Badger

The spoiled Meagan is going to have a hissy fit over this!


39 posted on 03/15/2019 3:41:05 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: Red Badger
"...the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz...." Music to the ears!😎
40 posted on 03/15/2019 3:44:49 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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