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John McCain Claims Responsibility Of Handing The ‘Fake’ Dossier On Trump To FBI
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
US Senator from Arizona John McCain admitted that it was he who gave the FBI a dossier which detailed claims of a Russian blackmail plot against President-elect Donald Trump. McCain, a long-time Trump critic, made the public statement on Wednesday as questions piled up about his alleged role in spreading an error-riddled document. The New York Post quoted him:
Late last year, I received sensitive information that has since been made public…Upon examination of the contents, and unable to make a judgment about their accuracy, I delivered the information to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. That has been the extent of my contact with the FBI or any other government agency regarding this issue….
According to ‘Watergate’ reporter Carl Bernstein, who contributed to a story about the dossier reported by CNN on Tuesday, said McCain was given the document by a former British ambassador to Moscow-
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 saw some questionable things about Russians, about his businesses in Russia. They in turn hired this MI6 former investigator….. a former British ambassador to Russia independently was made aware of these findings and he took the information to Senator John McCain in the period just after the election, and showed it to him - additional findings….
A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday denied Russia has collected compromising information, insisting that the Kremlin "does not engage in collecting compromising material".
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