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4chan created the pee hoax as a joke. A liberal activist (Rick Wilson) gave it to McCain. McCain gave it to the FBI. The FBI gave it to the CIA who included the pee hoax in their report on “Russian hacking” our last election supposedly.

Of course, there’s also a CIA-paid UK spy named Christopher Steele who included the pee-hoax claim in a report that was circulated to many journalists in DC.

Basically, there were a lot of phoney claims being made based on no actual evidence that made it into a classified Intelligence report as if our spooks wanted the slander in there and paid for it or else that our spooks were too dumb to know how not to be fooled by a series of hoax claims (the pee hoax was just one of many).

it doesn't seem like McCain's talking about where he got it or when he got it.

the Guardian claims this:

Senator John McCain, a hawkish Republican, was there and was introduced to a former senior western diplomat who had seen the documents, knew their source and thought him highly reliable. McCain decided the implications were sufficiently alarming to dispatch a trusted emissary, a former US official, to meet the source and find out more.

The emissary hastily arranged a transatlantic flight and met the source at the airport as arranged. (The Guardian has agreed not to specify the city or country where the meeting took place.) The meeting had a certain cold war tradecraft to it, as he was told to look for a man with a copy of the Financial Times. Having found each other, the retired counter-intelligence officer drove the emissary to his house, where they discussed the documents and their background.

The emissary flew back within 24 hours and showed McCain the documents, saying it was hard to impossible to verify them without a proper investigation. McCain said he was reluctant to get involved, lest it be perceived as payback for insulting remarks Trump had made about him during his rambunctious campaign.

However, on 9 December, McCain arranged a one-on-one meeting with Comey, with no aides present, and handed them over.

“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,” the senator said in a statement on Wednesday morning.

possible McCain got punked.