McCain’s Strange Dossier Tale Has Some Holes After WaPo’s Report

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There are interesting inconsistencies that have come up in The Washington Post article which reported the DNC and the Clinton campaign paid for the widely debunked Russia dossier.

It’s unclear why and how the dossier ended up in FBI hands.

The Post (WaPo) wrote that Clinton attorney Marc Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained Fusion GPS in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Fusion GPS gave Steele’s reports and other research documents to Elias, the people familiar with the matter said.

On the other hand, John McCain says he sent an envoy to the UK to retrieve the dossier, who turned it over to McCain, who then personally delivered it to James Comey on December 9th, 2016. He could have just called Hillary’s lawyer.

Sen. John McCain said he did “what any citizen would do” by turning over the dirty dossier, which contained unconfirmed secrets about the president-elect, to the FBI.

The Guardian charted the path of how the dossier came to be and how it was that McCain got his hands on the controversial documents.

The story of the dossier began with an investigative firm in Washington, D.C., which was tapped by one of Trump’s primary allies, a Republican, to dig up some opposition research on the Republican hopeful.

The firm outsourced the research to a “retired western European former counter-intelligence official [Christopher Steele], with a long history of dealing with the shadow world of Moscow’s spooks and siloviki,” explained the Guardian.

There is confusion here as to when Steele was hired. The Washington Post says it was after the DNC and Clinton became involved which conflicts with prior reports, the Sentinel reports.

We were told the Republican then dropped out because his primary opponent had dropped out. That seems to suggest it was someone like Lindsey Graham or one of the other opponents like Jeb Bush but not Ted Cruz or John Kasich who dropped out after April.  by December 2015, Lindsey Graham, George Pataki, Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry and Scott Walker had dropped out. Marco Rubio dropped out March, 2016, Ben Carson in March, Jeb Bush, Jim Gilmore, Carly Fiorina, Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee,  and Chris Christie dropped out in February.

It sounds like something Jeb Bush or one of his allies would do. He did something similar to Marco Rubio but that is only guesswork by the Sentinel.

The DNC and the Clinton campaign picked up the dossier research.

According to the Guardian, Steele and another ex-British diplomat, Christopher Burrows, run their own company, Orbis Business Intelligence. They found the allegations, if true, very concerning.

According to the story at the time, over the summer Steele delivered the intelligence he had gathered from his Russian sources, living within the country and also in the west, to former colleagues in the FBI, possibly to his own country’s intelligence service as well.

When nothing seemed to happen, he went to David Corn of the Soros publication ‘Mother Jones’ to tell his story. The dossier story came out on October 31.

Why Corn? One cannot find much more of a leftist propagandist than Corn.

On November 18, as the story goes, at the Halifax International Security Forum, McCain was introduced to a “former senior western diplomat” [Sir Andrew Wood] who had set eyes on the documents and knew who put them together, telling the Arizona Republican that the individual was “highly reliable.”

Apparently he forgot to mention it was opposition research.

Wood told the Independent that he had met McCain, spoken to him about Trump, and about the potential for him to be compromised.

In a carefully nuanced statement he said: “Yes I did meet Senator McCain and his aides at the conference.”

“We spoke about the kind of activities the Russians can be engaged in.”

“We also spoke about how Mr Trump may find himself in a position where there could be an attempt to blackmail him with Kompromat [a Russian term for compromising material] and claims that there were audio and video tapes in existence.”

He added: “I would like to stress that I did not pass on any dossier to Senator McCain or anyone else and I did not see a dossier at the time. I do know Christopher Steele and in my view he is very professional and thorough in what he does.”

He did not however address whether he told McCain there was a dossier – and how to get it.

From there, McCain dispatched a “trusted emissary” who flew across the Atlantic to meet the source of the documents at an airport that the Guardian did not name.

The emissary was former State Department official, David Kramer, who worked in the Hillary Clinton State Department and is senior director for the McCain Institute for International Leadership. The McCain Institute has taken large donations from George Soros, the Sentinel reports.

The aide was instructed to look for a man with a copy of the Financial Times  and that’s how the individuals met, with the source taking McCain’s emissary back to his house and giving the American a copy of the documents.

Within 24 hours, the dossier was in Washington, though the contents of the file couldn’t be verified without an investigation.

McCain, the Guardian said, was worried that his actions might be interpreted as revenge [yeah, we’re sure he was worried], but he decided to hand over the documents to FBI Director James Comey on December 9 anyway.

Why all the James Bond spy stuff when Elias had it?

Where did the FBI get the dossier and why didn’t anyone know it was opposition research promoted by an anti-Trumper and Democrats? Why was it taken seriously? Is McCain compromised?

What do you think?


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Greg
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Greg
6 years ago

Considering what we now know it certainly sounds like the dossier was meant to cover up the Uranium One deal. The timeline of the supposed grooming of Trump for the Presidency coincides with the beginnings of the Uranium One deal.

It also seem coincidental that the Intelligence Report uses the same language as the dossier. There are countless references to “pro-TUMP / anti-CLINTON” which is the main subject of the “Report”. We now know Russia wasn’t so “anti-Clinton” as she was instrumental in securing that Uranium deal.

There are numerous references to Manafort and his dealings with Ukraine and other matters. Since it has been revealed that there is a link with Manafort and Podesta this may have been more related to Uranium than the campaign.

I was suspicious ever since it came out that McMullen mentioned his friends in the CIA and what “they” may do. When you have leaders like Clapper and Brennan who are visceral in their anti-Trump stance EVEN after a legitimate election one can ask if they had any involvement in this affair. They both have had issues with Agency cover-ups. Are these two close friends of McMullen. No one should ever forget the words of Schumer, “the CIA has six ways to Sunday to get back at you”.

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Greg
6 years ago

There is one person whose name hasn’t been mentioned and maybe should be investigated namely, Evan McMullen. He was making explosive charges well before getting into the race in August. Considering his ties to the Intelligence Community and the dossier supposedly an “intelligence” document it may have relevance. Did he have some part in creating the document. There was references to “friends” in the CIA by him or one of his associates.

It seems he may have had some knowledge of the contents around the time the dossier was written, or maybe even before. I believe Glenn Beck had referenced McMullen in many of the outrageous charges and this began the comparisons of Hitler and Mussolini.

Given all the new information I’ll have to re-read that document and see what if any correlations.