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   In his upcoming book "The Restless Wave" (to be released May 22), Sen.   
   John McCain (R-AZ) admits that he was the person who handed then-FBI   
   Director James Comey the salacious, unverified dossier compiled by   
   former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and paid for by   
   the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign. It was   
   that action that appears to have set off the sequence of events   
   ultimately resulting in Robert Mueller's Russia probe.   
      
   In its report on McCain's admission, The Daily Beast — which fails to   
   mention who funded Steele's project in the report — notes that   
   McCain's involvement came after Steele had met with American officials   
   in Rome to discuss his findings. However, it appears to have been the   
   decision by McCain, a frequent critic of Trump, to hand Comey the   
   dossier that really got things rolling.   
      
   "I agreed to receive a copy of what is now referred to as 'the   
   dossier,'" writes McCain in his upcoming book. "I reviewed its   
   contents. The allegations were disturbing, but I had no idea which if   
   any were true. I could not independently verify any of it, and so I   
   did what any American who cares about our nation’s security should   
   have done."   
      
   In November 2016, McCain says, he met with former British diplomat Sir   
   Andrew Wood at the Halifax International Security Forum where Wood   
   told him about Steele's investigation. Soon after the meeting, David   
   Kramer, the senior director for Human Rights and Human Freedom at the   
   McCain Institute, flew to London to meet with Steele in person. When   
   the dossier was in McCain's hands, he says he put it in a safe in his   
   office until he could meet with Comey.   
      
   "I went to see him at his earliest convenience, handed him the   
   dossier, explained how it had come into my possession," said McCain.   
   "I said I didn’t know what to make of it, and I trusted the FBI would   
   examine it carefully and investigate its claims. With that, I thanked   
   the director and left. The entire meeting had probably not lasted   
   longer than ten minutes. I did what duty demanded I do."   
      
   In an interview promoting his own new book, Comey revealed that when   
   he briefed Trump on the salacious details of the dossier, he didn't   
   bother telling him that his political enemies funded the investigation   
   as opposition research.   
      
   In a report published in February, The Washington Post provides a   
   profile of Steele that underscores his "struggles to navigate dual   
   obligations — to his private clients, who were paying him to help   
   Clinton win, and to a sense of public duty born of his previous life."   
      
   He had left the famed Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, seven years   
   earlier and was now working on behalf of Fusion GPS, a private   
   Washington research firm whose work at the time was funded by Trump’s   
   opponent, Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic Party.   
      
   The meeting in Rome captured the unusual and complicated role of   
   Steele, who wrote memos that came to be known as the dossier and who   
   has become the central point of contention in the political brawl   
   raging around the Russia inquiry by special counsel Robert S. Mueller   
   III.   
      
   Those who believe Steele consider him a hero, a latter-day Paul Revere   
   who, at personal risk, tried to provide an early warning about the   
   Kremlin’s unprecedented meddling in a U.S. campaign. Those who   
   distrust him say he is merely a hired gun leading a political attack   
   on Trump.   
      
   Hurry up and die a horrible painful death you treacherous old weasel.   
      
   https://www.dailywire.com/news/30463/john-mccain-yes-it-was-me-w   
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