U.K. Spy Steele Claims John McCain Aide Leaked ‘Pee’ Dossier to BuzzFeed

The blame starts, let’s start with the dead guy

Anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele testified that he was “absolutely flabbergasted” when BuzzFeed published the dossier after an advisor to late Senator John McCain shared the controversial document with the media outlet purportedly against Steele’s wishes.

-That tidbit was buried in a footnote on page 176 of the Justice Department’s recently released 476-page Inspector General (IG) report on the FBI’s Russia collusion investigation. Steele made the remarks about Buzzfeed and the McCain staff member during an interview with the IG.

-The relevant footnote relates:

-Steele testified in foreign litigation that he did not provide his reports to journalists or media organizations and did not authorize anyone to share them. According to the McCain Institute staff member’s testimony in the same litigation, Steele requested that the staff member meet with BuzzFeed, and that Steele neither requested nor prohibited the staff member from sharing the reports with BuzzFeed. Additionally, the staff member testified that Steele was aware that the staff member was furnishing Steele’s reports to The Washington Post.

-Steele told the OIG that he trusted the staff member to handle his reports discretely and that the staff member betrayed that trust. Steele explained that the staff member had spent his career handling sensitive intelligence. Steele also said he understood from a former Ambassador that Senator McCain requested that Steele trust the staff member. Steele said he was “absolutely flabbergasted” when BuzzFeed published his election reports.

-The unnamed McCain staff member is known to be David J. Kramer.

-Kramer revealed in previous testimony that he held a meeting about the dossier with a reporter from BuzzFeed News, who he says snapped photos of the controversial document without Kramer’s permission when he left the room to go to the bathroom. That meeting was held at the McCain Institute office in Washington, Kramer stated.

-BuzzFeed published the Christopher Steele dossier on January 10, 2017, setting off a firestorm of news media coverage about the document.

-The Washington Post reported last February that Kramer received the dossier directly from Fusion GPS after McCain expressed interest in it.

-Fusion GPS was paid for its anti-Trump work by Trump’s primary political opponents, namely Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) via the Perkins Coie law firm.

-As Breitbart News reported last week, the IG report also reveals that McCain provided disgraced former FBI chief James Comey with five separate reports from Steele that the FBI didn’t previously possess related to unsubstantiated allegations of collusion between Russia and President Trump’s 2016 campaign.

-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 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.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/02/u-k-spy-steele-claims-john-mccain-aide-leaked-pee-dossier-to-buzzfeed/

The Sad reality of all these groups that seek to destroy our southern borders and country, the migrants end up dead and the smugglers and attorney groups still make a lot of money

During an interview late last year with Breitbart News Tonight, Dr. Stern said her facilities are packed beyond capacity. “A large part of my responsibility is to recover and identify border crossers — those migrants who die in their attempts to cross the border between Mexico and the United States,” Dr. Stern told Breitbart “We are in dire need of space. We have two portable morgue units that are on loan to us from the Laredo City Health Department — they are full. We also have a large one from the State.” “We have [the migrants] tripled on each table,” she explained. Dr. Stern said they were forced to remove the gurneys from her two large coolers. “We didn’t have enough space so we put them on the floor.” Dr. Stern said she witnessed more migrant deaths during 2019 than any other year she has served as medical examiner. As of the date of the interview, Stern processed the remains of more than 155 decedents.

—Dr. Stern’s office serves multiple counties along the Texas border, which do not have the funds or capacity to process the deaths locally. Dr. Stern discussed the high number of migrant deaths in Brooks County. She explained the county is unique because it is not a border community. It is set 80 miles north of the international boundary. At least 46 migrants died in Brooks County during 2019, Breitbart Texas reported.

—“So why do so man migrants die in Brooks County?” she asked. “What’s happening is, when those migrants cross the river, those migrants that end up in Brooks County cross the river in McAllen, Texas. They are picked up by guides [cartel-connected human smugglers].” Stern explained that migrants are frequently held for long periods of time in a safe house. “We talked to some family members who said that their loved ones were held in a safe house for up to three months. And, when I say a ‘safe house,’ I mean it’s like a warehouse.” She said they are held until they are picked up by another guide who drives them to Brooks County.

—“They’re left on one of those large ranches,” she explained. “They’re given points of reference so they can walk around the checkpoint. Once they’re around the checkpoint, they’ll be picked up and that’s why they’re dying in that vast ranch land.”

—“Brooks County is very different than Webb County,” the medical examiner continued. “We are a border county. We sit on the banks of the Rio Grande River.” She said that in her county they get the ranch land deaths, but also have to deal with drownings.

—“We actually have to go into the river,” she said. Dr. Stern said Maverick County experienced an unprecedented number of drownings this year.

—“They’re getting an inordinate amount of drownings because of the caravan of Hondurans,” Stern stated. “They came up through Piedras Negras. Some of them have applied for asylum and they’re given a court date.” She said they get impatient and get tired of waiting so they try to cross the river. “They’ll jump in the river and try and come across themselves.”

—“Recently, within the past few months, I had a mother and her one-year-old son — they came up to the border in Val Verde County,” Dr. Stern recalled. “They applied for asylum. They were given a court date. They went back to wait [in Mexico]. Mom didn’t want to wait. [She] paid a coyote to bring them across and they both drowned. They ended up on my autopsy table.”

The Webb County Medical Examiner’s Office stores the remains of Dr. Stern’s patients as a courtesy until the identification process is complete and the remains can be properly processed. While the office has a very high success rate of patient identification — including those of skeletal remains — many must remain in storage for an extended period. Stern explained the painstaking process her staff goes through to attempt to identify the remains of the decedents. They receive a complete autopsy and all forensic tests are utilized to make the identification process successful. “If we look at intact remains, our identification rate is 85 percent,” Stren stated. “If you put skeletal remains with that it drops down to about 70 to 75 percent.”

—During the interview, Stern discussed the impact on her and her staff in dealing with this massive number of deaths. “My staff, we are a very close-knit family,” Stern said about dealing with the stress of her job. “What we see or what we deal with on a daily basis are unlike that of any other physician’s office. It is very unique. We deal with it together.”

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/01/02/graphic-exclusive-video-texas-border-county-medical-examiners-painstaking-efforts-to-identify-store-deceased-migrants/

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They sure did, and from my count it’s no long two out of three and one to go, it’s three out of three, hurrah for the good guys