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   From: puss-for-brains@cnn.com   
      
   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.   
      
   https://www.dailywire.com/news/30463/john-mccain-yes-it-was-me-   
   who-handed-comey-james-barrett   
      
   RIP John McCain, the politician with two left faces.  Most of us   
   didn't like you either, John.  That's why you lost and Obama   
   didn't.   
      
   Apparently the most recent majority thought more of Trump than   
   they did of you or Hillary.   
      
   They were right.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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