IG Report Reveals Steele Funneled Claims Through John McCain After FBI Dropped Him

[mystery-ak]

IG Report Reveals Steele Funneled Claims Through John McCain After FBI Dropped Him

Aaron Klein 26 Dec 2019

Late Senator John McCain provided disgraced former FBI chief James Comey with five separate reports from Christopher Steele that the FBI didn’t previously possess related to unsubstantiated allegations of collusion between Russia and President Trump’s 2016 campaign, the Justice Department’s recent Inspector General report revealed.

There have long been questions about why it was necessary for McCain to pass Steele’s anti-Trump dossier to Comey on December 9, 2016, several weeks after the November 2016 presidential election. By then, Steele had already met numerous times with FBI agents to provide them with his controversial reports. Steele, however, was terminated as an FBI source in the fall of 2016 because he spoke to the news media.

The IG report discloses that McCain gave five new Steele reports to Comey that the FBI did not previously possess, showing that McCain served as a conduit for Steele’s information to reach the FBI even after the British ex-spy was formally cut off as an FBI source.

It is not clear whether McCain knew at the time that Steele had previously been terminated as an FBI source.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/26/ig-report-reveals-steele-funneled-claims-through-john-mccain-after-fbi-dropped-him/

[PeteS in CA]

The IG report discloses that McCain gave five new Steele reports to Comey that the FBI did not previously possess, showing that McCain served as a conduit for Steele’s information to reach the FBI even after the British ex-spy was formally cut off as an FBI source.

This (what I bolded) is the big news in this. That McCain had continued his back-stabbing ways was known a year or two ago. That he communicated new TDS BS was not. It would be interesting, "academically", to know whether McCain knew Steele had been cut off and that he was being a conduit for new claptrap. In the real world, he's gone and good riddance.