Senator John McCain is gone (God rest his soul) and a massive grieving over his passing is about to be exploited to the nth degree by election-bound Democrats.
For fans of the macabre, in the true-life-stranger-than-fiction category, Senator McCain died of the same cause, the same day, nine years later than Senator Ted Kennedy. “Sen. John McCain provides intimate details of how he obtained the infamous so-called Steele dossier in his new book, "The Restless Wave." “The Republican senator was attending an annual security conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia shortly after the presidential election in November 2016 when a retired British diplomat approached him.”Security conferences are always the best place to get approached by British diplomats.
“According to McCain, he didn't recall ever having a previous conversation with Sir Andrew Wood, but may have met him before in passing. Chris Brose, a staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and David Kramer, a former assistant secretary of state with Russian expertise, joined McCain and Wood in a room off the main conference hall. (Business Insider) “After discussing Russian election interference for a few minutes, Wood explained why he'd approached McCain in the first place. "He told me he knew a former MI6 officer by the name of Christopher Steele, who had been commissioned to investigate connections between the Trump campaign and Russian agents as well as potentially compromising information about the President-elect that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin allegedly possessed," McCain wrote.”
“Wood told McCain that Steele had compiled a report, while careful to note the information was unverified, which the former British spy "strongly believed merited a thorough examination by counterintelligence experts.” (Business Insider) "Our impromptu meeting felt charged with a strange intensity," McCain wrote. "No one wise-cracked to lighten the mood. We spoke in lowered voices. The room was dimly lit, and the atmosphere was eerie.”I’ll bet! After further discussion, the group agreed to send “former assistant secretary of state with Russian expertise” David Kramer to London to meet Steele.
“When Kramer returned from the meeting and told McCain that Steele seemed to be a reputable source, the Republican senator agreed to receive a copy of the dossier. (Business Insider) "The allegations were disturbing, but I had no idea which if any were true," McCain said. "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. I put the dossier in my office safe, called the office of the director of the FBI, Jim Comey, and asked for a meeting." “McCain ultimately turned the dossier over to Comey in a meeting on December 9, 2016 that he said lasted about 10 minutes. "I did what duty demanded I do," McCain wrote, adding that anyone who disagrees with his decision can "go to hell.”
“McCain wrote that he suspects Wood approached him about the Steele dossier because he has been such a persistent, staunch critic of Putin over the years, and that he would "take their concerns seriously." (Business Insider)The prog-left not only took Wood’s rumors “seriously”, they took them to heart and continue to use them to this very day as the best way to take down the duly elected populist President Donald Trump. A reminder for social media rubes who will try to write this story off as Fake News: It’s all chronicled in McCain’s book, ‘The Restless Wave’. Meanwhile, isn’t it high time to throw the prog-left’s imaginary black cloth on Sen. McCain’s empty Senate seat where it really belongs— on the bogus Trump-Russia conspiracy that is holding America hostage?
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Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years’ experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com.
