Conspiracy Hinted At

Something salacious to pass along from a site DC Whispers whose name suggests caution in taking its revelatons as absolute gospel. It concerns the alleged role of Sen. John McCain in the transmission of the Steele-compiled, Clinton-funded dossier on then-candidate Trump to the Obama administration.

The goal of providing the dossier to McCain, the Fusion GPS founders explained, was to pass the information contained in the questionable document to the U.S. intelligence community under the Obama administration.

The disclosure raises questions about whether McCain knew that the information he delivered to the intelligence community was actually an opposition document reportedly funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

Their headline sums up the overall nastiness of the alleged conspiracy:

John McCain Worked With Foreign Agents, Obama White House, DNC, & FBI To Try And Defeat Trump In 2016

My Analysis:
McCain was entitled to oppose his party’s candidate, if he chose. It appears he allowed his office to be used to give a falsely bipartisan “aroma” to the dossier.

Seeing this, his party was entitled to take whatever punitive action against him was within their power - most likely backing a primary challenge. The “foreign agents” were hired hands who likely did nothing illegal, at least in the U.S.

While we’d expect nothing less than partisanship from an opposition party White House and national committee, eavesdropping on an opponent by falsely claiming a national security justification does cross a line and could be criminal.

If the FBI is proven to have been more than an unwitting tool used by non-FBI outsiders, that is criminal. Indictments should follow. We can’t have our national police takng sides in political campaigns, down that road lies tyranny.