I know that John McCain somehow received a copy and passed it on.
Exactly who gave it to him I am not presently aware of.
He sent an aide to the UK to pick it up.
McCain has a history of colluding with the enemy.
Patriot? My ass!
McNoName actually sent someone to London to pick it up!! He was that hot to get his hands on some dirt, and the unctuous way he spoke about it (”I’m a hero, look what I did, are you proud of me Daddy”) was vomit inducing.
I’m happy he is dead.
AFAIK, McCain got a copy of the Steele dossier. If I am reading this correctly Morris is saying that Clinton people actually wrote it, then hired Steele to format it like raw intel and put his name on it.
This would be either to trick the FBI into thinking it was something ‘credible’, as Comey often said they thought Steele was credible; or as I suspect merely to give them plausible deniability - a paper trail that makes it look like they did due diligence but really they knew all along it was a bunch of Clinton manufactured hooey.
There are a number of reasons the FBI should have suspected the dossier - #1, they had already received a tip from the DNC alleging Trump’s computers were linked to a Russian bank, they checked it out and found nothing. When this same claim appeared in the dossier they had to suspect the source. #2, there was a Blumenthal dossier floating around with similar allegations. #3 they had received multiple warnings from State department and DOJ about the dossier. #4 they had already fired Steele for leaking. #5 they knew he was working for Clinton and heavily biased against Trump all along.
So my opinion is, they knew it was bunk and they were part of the scheme to put Steele’s name on it so they could cover their butts on the paper trail. It was part of the “insurance policy” and this is the real reason they ‘fired’ Steele - so they could move him off the books so as to keep appearances that they were not paying for political oppo research. 3 card Monty.
Scum McCain was the leader of the never trump gang, may the worms continue to eat him