{"id":55531,"date":"2017-12-28T04:47:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T04:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=55531"},"modified":"2017-12-28T04:47:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T04:47:27","slug":"house-intel-panel-subpoenas-mccain-associate-over-trump-dossier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/house-intel-panel-subpoenas-mccain-associate-over-trump-dossier.html","title":{"rendered":"House Intel panel subpoenas McCain associate over Trump dossier"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">House Intel panel subpoenas McCain associate over Trump dossier<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The House Intelligence Committee has issued a subpoena to an associate of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) over his connection with the controversial dossier containing unverified allegations about President Trump and his ties to Russia, The Hill confirmed on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) wants to talk to David Kramer, a former State Department official and current senior director at the nonprofit McCain Institute, about his visit to London in November 2016, a source familiar with the matter confirmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Washington Examiner&#8217;s Byron York first reported on the subpoena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">While in London, Kramer met with the dossier&#8217;s author, former British spy Christopher Steele, at McCain&#8217;s request, to view \u201cthe pre-election memoranda on a confidential basis,\u201d according to court filings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Kramer then flew back to the U.S. and delivered a copy of the memos to McCain, who then handed the documents to the FBI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The subpoena for Kramer to appear before House investigators on Jan. 11 comes after he met with the panel earlier this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The dossier has long been a key interest of Republicans, who want to find out if its claims were used as the basis for a surveillance warrant on Trump campaign associates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Democrats, on the other hand, are interested to learn whether the allegations made against the president in the dossier are true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Certain parts of the dossier have either been confirmed or proven false, while other parts of the memo compilation remain unverified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton&#8217;s presidential campaign partly funded the dossier, created by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Trump has resoundingly dismissed the memo as &#8220;fake.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A spokeswoman for McCain&#8217;s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/366614-house-intel-panel-subpoenas-mccain-associate-over-trump-dossier<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/house-intel-panel-subpoenas-mccain-associate-over-trump-dossier.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Intel panel subpoenas McCain associate over Trump dossier The House Intelligence Committee has issued a subpoena to an associate of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) over his connection with the controversial dossier containing unverified allegations about President Trump and his ties to Russia, The Hill confirmed on Wednesday. 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