Reader comment: that P.....of.....S McCain claimed he had no idea whether it was accurate or not - but that he believed the FBI should have it because it was 'sensitive'. 'I did what any citizen should do. I received sensitive information and handed it to the FBI,' he told CNN - the network which broke the story that the document existed. It was then published in full by Buzzfeed..........P
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McCain in a RINO and a jackass!...............R; The Watchman -you forgot
traitor and globalist R
I just finished watching the President-elect's press conference and I came away totally impressed. Trump is donating the proceeds of his foreign hotels to the American people via the U.S. Treasury. We are blessed to have this man.
Watchman speculation: apparently 6 Republicans were part of this conspiracy agaunst Trump. You will recall that the anti-Trumpers met for a weekend last summer down south to stop Trump. Apparently they paid for this bull******** intelligence report that Buzzfeed printed. From what I can gather here are some of the six involved: 1. McCain 2. Graham 3. Romney 4. McConnell 5. ????? 6. ??????
I said it last week and I will say it again. If I had written such an intelligence report my boss would have have wanted first hand sources or witnesses and he would have told me to go back and find the "real" sources or tear up the report!
I can't believe McCain had the nerve to tell Comey to investigate this crap.
"It was me": Sworn Trump enemy John McCain
admits HE handed smear dossier to FBI - as details surface of document's
bizarre journey from British former spy and diplomat.
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Arizona Senator who disowned Trump before
election admits he handed document outlining claims of Kremlin blackmail to the FBI.
· In a brief statement McCain claims that he received
it and gave it directly to FBI Director James Comey because he was 'unable to
make judgment about accuracy.
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But Washington reporter Carl Bernstein
says former British ambassador to Moscow handed it to McCain.
The Ambassador has not been named, and the author of report also gave to FBI agent he knew at its station in Rome months
ago.
The Report was apparently paid for first BY
Republican enemies of Trump then by Democrats
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 2008 Republican loser, who disowned his
party's candidate weeks before the election, may have been far more intimately
involved than that
The dossier claims Russian authorities filmed Trump in a Moscow hotel room with two prostitutes who 'defiled a bed' which had previously been used by President Barack Obama.
The chain of how the document reached the FBI is
not officially known.
However Carl Bernstein, the Watergate reporter who contributed to the first
story about its existence, published
by CNN on Tuesday afternoon, suggested that McCain was handed it by
a former British ambassador to Moscow.
Bernstein told CNN: 'It came from a former British MI6 agent who was
hired from a political opposition research firm in Washington who was doing
work about Donald Trump for both republican and democratic candidates opposed
to Trump.
'They were looking at Trumps business ties, they saw some questionable
things about Russians, about his businesses in Russia, they in turn hired this
MI6 former investigator, he then came up with additional information from his
Russian sources, he was very concerned by the implications of it, he then took
it to an FBI colleague that he had known in his undercover work for years, he
took it to this FBI man in Rome who turned it over to the bureau in Washington
in August.
'And then, a former British ambassador to Russia independently was made
aware of these findings and he took the information to John McCain – Senator
John McCain of Arizona – in the period just after the election, and showed it
to McCain – additional findings.
'McCain was sufficiently disturbed by what he read to take it to FBI
director James Comey himself personally, they had a five minute meeting the two
men, very little was said, McCain turned it over to him and is now awaiting
what the FBI’s response is to that information.'
The identity of the former British ambassador has not been disclosed.
Only one former British ambassador to Moscow remains in UK government
service, Sir Tim Barrow, who went on to be Foreign Office political director
and is now Britain's ambassador to the European Union.
McCain's long-standing opposition to Trump is well known although he
only formally ended support for the Republican candidate in October, when the
notorious 'p****' tape emerged.
The Arizona senator said at the time: '"Donald
Trump’s behavior... concluding with the disclosure of his demeaning comments
about women and his boasts about sexual assaults, make it impossible to
continue to offer even conditional support for his candidacy.'
US intelligence agencies have claimed that Russian
spies hacked the Democratic National Committee and leaked damaging emails
designed to undermine Hillary Clinton's campaign for president.
The new information, which has not been independently verified, claims that Russian officials also gathered highly damaging information on Trump, but only released the details attacking Clinton through the WikiLeaks website.
DECEMBER 9, 2016
McCain meets FBI Director James Comey and hands
over the Kremlin dossier assembled by a former British spy However,
McCain was so concerned about the information contained within the 35-page
dossier, which included allegations that Trump had hired prostitutes in Moscow
to urinate on a bed that had previously been used by US President Barack Obama
and his wife Michelle, that he passed the information onto the FBI
CNN reported that intelligence chiefs had presented Trump with a
two-page summary of the dossier late last week following a briefing with
President Obama.
It is not known if it included the most salacious details.
Trump has consistently denied that Russian intelligence agencies had
launched a massive cyber attack ahead of last November's election.
The dossier which McCain passed to FBI Director James Comey was compiled
by the former MI6 man.
The memos describe sex videos involving prostitutes filmed during a 2013
visit by Trump to a luxury Moscow hotel, supposedly as a potential means for
blackmail.
They also suggest Russian officials proposed lucrative deals in order to
win influence over the Republican real estate magnate.
One claim, that special counsel to Trump Michael Cohen met with Kremlin
officials in Prague in August 2016 has been branded as 'fake news'.
Cohen denied that he was central 'to the ongoing secret liaison
relationship between the New York tycoon's campaign and the Russian
leadership'.
Cohen tweeted a photograph of his passport and said he had never visited
Prague. Dumb ass Buzzfeed apparently has the wrong Cohen.
According to reports, the former MI6 man had been hired to conduct
'opposition research' on the Trump campaign by first Republican enemies of
Trump, then Democratic ones.
Russia denied the claims, with President Vladimir Putin's spokesman
Dmitry Peskov telling journalists: 'The Kremlin does not have compromising
information on Trump.'
The Kremlin spokesman called the dossier a 'total fake' and 'an obvious
attempt to harm our bilateral relations'.
Earlier, the Kremlin had denied hacking the Democratic National
Committee and leaking information to deliberately weaken Hillary Clinton's
campaign.
Donald Trump's transition team has repeatedly denied allegations that it
had received any help from Moscow.
Buzzfeed followed up a report by CNN
which disclosed the existence of the explosive dossier, but only gave a brief
outline of the contents.
The 35-page document, which had been
collated by a former British Secret Intelligence Service agent had initially
been handed over to the FBI in August.
Buzzfeed's Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith
wrote the email below to his staff shortly after publishing the document.
BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith sent
a memo to his staff outlining the reasons why he published the Trump dossier
despite reservations over its accuracy
Smith said the dossier contained
'explosive and unverified allegations about Donald Trump and Russia'.
He justified the decision to release
the information to allow Americans 'to make up their own minds about the
allegations' which had been circulated at the 'highest levels of the US
government'.
Smith claimed publishing the dossier
was an example of 'transparent' journalism.
Further down in his memo, he appeared
to discredit his own story as 'there is serious reason to doubt the
allegations'.
He said Buzzfeed had been trying to
stand up the allegations for 'weeks' - suggesting that it had failed to do so.
Both the New York Times and the Washington Post said they had been handed the
material and been unable to verify it.
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