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’ve taken a pretty extensive look at John over time.
If you look at his childhood years to just before he became a pilot, he was a total disaster.
If you look at his years post military until the present, he was a total disaster.
I’m not convinced North Vietnam had to work real hard to turn him. He was always in things for himself. He was a real piece of work that one.
He wanted to act like he was in charge of the total government. He tried to execute his own foreign policy a number of times.
He had a habit of doing that....................
He was a spoiled rotten little asshole................His entire life................
Ditto.....................
Does anybody really care?.......................
Bucket List.........................
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