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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I agree. I think McCain was further enraged when he realized that he had underestimated Trump.
“Maganopotamus” will say, “Yeah, but it could’a happened.”
I have not seen this, and I'm quite interested.
Is there a source?
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He was a peevish little man, and a foul-up everywhere he went.
But bet he was mentally/brain dead six months after he went home to AZ...and his family and staff covered for him...and that staff more than likely were forced to sign DO NOT DISCLOSE OR DISCUSS McCAINS PHYSICALLY CONDITION...
They are just too quiet but one day the truth will be made known...same with Barry Hussein Obama...one day the records will be released..
Hanoi John
McCain = a substandard pilot but his dad was an admiral. Otherwise he would have washed out. If the North Vietnamese had a sense of humor they would have given him the distinguished flying cross. They had no sense of humor.
McCain = a hero for the horrors he endured as a POW. Others will disagree but he was. You can break any man. Yes he did talk as did all the others. They were broken. For his time in captivity he was a very honorable man.
McCain = a total political snake with an ego the size of Jupiter and totally fixated on being president. He was also a vicious back stabbing liar and charlatan. In his own deluded mind he considered himself a patriot, he was not. He was a patriot until he ran for office and became a part of the corrupt culture of Washington DC.
“Gods speed Captain McCain. Senator McCain I know you not.”
Agree!
McCain was a, to use his own words, “a scumbag of highest order”.
McCain stabbed his fellow POWs in the back.... the pos was a traitor. Read the books
Could somebody tell me WHY this slob McCain got a days long funeral capped with a laying in state at the Capitol? Few, including Presidents, have gotten this honor but it went on for days. I don’t denigrate his Vietnam service, my own family members were there in combat, but what exactly did this backstabber do to merit this type of national hagiography?
Where is Meghan on this?
The true red white and blue Manchurian Candidate.
That brouhaha on TV when the bastard went to his reward made me ill
The medIA loved them some McCain.
Without expanding on that, I think we’re on the same page.
Do an internet for “jeb bush dossier on trump”
I’ve always suspected he was “turned” while a patient in the VietNam POW hospital.
Has anyone here had the pleasure of pissing on his grave yet? Please post if you do.
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