Sen. John McCain might want to stay in Cornville a little longer. He was supposed to return to DC at the end of January. The last sighting of McCain was on Twitter, when his daughter tweeted a pic of her and daddy.
This week, the Daily Caller reported that a former director of the McCain Institute invoked his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination in response to a congressional subpoena related to the Fushion GPS dossier.
Cornville might be cold, but not as cold as DC and certainly not as heated.
According to the Daily Caller “The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence wants to know how David J. Kramer handled a dossier of unvetted opposition research on Donald Trump.”
“Kramer has not denied sharing the dossier with BuzzFeed News.”
In a Dec. 19 interview with the committee, Kramer said that he had information about some of the sources of information in the dossier, which was written by former British spy Christopher Steele and financed by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
According to the Arizona Daily Independent, the McCain Institute is used for less-than-up-front actions:
“In the wake of Russia’s attack on the 2016 election, it is more important than ever to strengthen our defenses against foreign interference in our elections,” said McCain in a statement. “Unfortunately, U.S. laws requiring transparency in political campaigns have not kept pace with rapid advances in technology, allowing our adversaries to take advantage of these loopholes to deceive millions of American voters with impunity. ….