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Senator John McCain Pushed Trump Dossier to the Intel Community
Big Government ^ | 11 Jan 2017 | John Hayward

Posted on 01/11/2017 11:50:54 AM PST by drewh

The Daily Mail on Wednesday reported that Senator John McCain (R-AZ) pushed the dossier full of unverified claims about Donald Trump to the FBI:

Sworn Donald Trump enemy John McCain admitted Wednesday that he passed the dossier of claims of a Russian blackmail plot against the president-elect.

The Arizona senator issued a public statement amid mounting questions of his exact role in the affair – and how a document riddled with errors and unverifiable claims came to be published.

‘Late last year, I received sensitive information that has since been made public,’ he said.

‘Upon examination of the contents, and unable to make a judgment about their accuracy, I delivered the information to the Director of the FBI.

‘That has been the extent of my contact with the FBI or any other government agency regarding this issue.’

But the Daily Mail – which, it should be noted, seems to like McCain about as much as McCain likes Trump – argues that the “2008 Republican loser” might have been “far more intimately involved than that.”

Watergate legend Carl Bernstein is quoted telling CNN that McCain got the dossier from the former British ambassador to Moscow, who in turn got it from that mysterious “former British MI6 agent who was hired from a political opposition research firm in Washington” that we’ve been hearing so much about lately.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 115th; bhointelligence; dossier; johnmccain; mccain; trumptransition
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To: euram

Can he be impeached?


61 posted on 01/11/2017 12:20:27 PM PST by Bogie
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To: Bogie

The Senate can expel him by a two thirds vote. The process is different from impeachment in that the House does not have to vote to impeach. It’s purely an administrative function of the Senate.


62 posted on 01/11/2017 12:21:47 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: OKSooner

Yuck!

Don’t want to go there!:)


63 posted on 01/11/2017 12:22:56 PM PST by Grampa Dave (The deadliest Islamic terror cell America has ever faced is leaving office, 20 Jan 2017!)
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To: Publius

How can Arizona get the Senate to expel McCain?


64 posted on 01/11/2017 12:24:39 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Zenjitsuman

Post #62.


65 posted on 01/11/2017 12:24:59 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: \/\/ayne

It can’t. The Senate must be sufficiently outraged by McCain’s behavior to expel him by that all important two thirds vote.


66 posted on 01/11/2017 12:25:57 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: treetopsandroofs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO0mHEJyC3Y


67 posted on 01/11/2017 12:27:40 PM PST by Bogie
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To: WENDLE

McCain is also a North Vietnamese ACE, having downed 5 American aircraft.

http://correntewire.com/john_mccain_fighter_ace_destroyed_five_us_planes


68 posted on 01/11/2017 12:28:56 PM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: drewh

I am amazed at the number of complete imbeciles we have in Congress


69 posted on 01/11/2017 12:29:27 PM PST by jokemoke
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To: \/\/ayne; vette6387; HarleyLady27; Liz; tet68; Lumper20; mosaicwolf; ZULU; Doogle; Foolsgold; ...

Did anyone read or hear that McLame was called “Songbird” in the Hanoi Hilton??


70 posted on 01/11/2017 12:29:59 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: eyeamok

McCain was meeting with isis leaders....back when us was giving them aid to topple syria’s legitimate government.

He will have some explaining to do.


71 posted on 01/11/2017 12:30:17 PM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: drewh

McCain bump for later....


74 posted on 01/11/2017 12:31:56 PM PST by indthkr
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To: Publius

So a change.org petition should ask for McCain to be expelled from office.

Dems love this war monger traitor who hates Trump, won’t happen, but the GOP can censure him and the Folks in Arizona should vote him out of the GOP. That way he loses seniority on committees.


75 posted on 01/11/2017 12:32:09 PM PST by Zenjitsuman (Y)
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To: treetopsandroofs

I am amazed but you are right!! He took down 5 US planes . He got total blame for one as “PILOT ERROR” and they others were not directlt attributed to his errors. What a guy.


76 posted on 01/11/2017 12:33:12 PM PST by WENDLE (Ban CNN from Trump access on this FAKE NEWS they pushed!! Censure MCain in SENATE!!)
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To: euram

McCain graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in June 1958; he was fifth from the bottom in class rank, 894th out of 899. While at the Academy, he accumulated over 100 demerits per year, primarily because of conduct problems.

He is still having conduct problems.


77 posted on 01/11/2017 12:34:23 PM PST by paterfamilias
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To: Zenjitsuman

The folks in Arizona cannot vote him out of the GOP insofar as he has just won reelection. The Republican Senate brass can strip him of his committee assignments, but his response would be to change parties. With the Senate so closely divided, that would be a risky strategy.


78 posted on 01/11/2017 12:34:25 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: nfldgirl

The number 1 question indeed.


79 posted on 01/11/2017 12:37:06 PM PST by Bogie
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To: Zenjitsuman
There should be a Change.org petition calling for McCain to resign or be impeached.

Members of Congress can not be impeached. To remove a Senator from office two-thirds of the Senate would have to vote to "expel" him. That is not going to happen. Neither is he going to resign. He has to be defeated at the ballot box, unless he decides not to run for reelection.

80 posted on 01/11/2017 12:37:45 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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