Apparently McCain was told about the Trump Russia blackmail dossier by an international

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diplomat at a Halifax, Nova Scotia, Security Conference in early December. He immediately sent an envoy to England on a 24 hour turn around to get the dossier from the source. After that McCain gave it to the FBI, who already had it.CBC.

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1. WHICH FORMER AMBASSADOR GAVE McCAIN THE DOSSIER?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4111608/Will-look-cat-Ex-MI6-spy-worked-murdered-Litvinenko-flees-1-5m-home-fearing-life-leaving-pet-neighbours-outed-man-dirty-dossier-Donald-Trump.html

Article has a list of the eight living former Ambassadors to Russia.

Note that Steele served in Moscow while Sir Rodric Braithwaite was Ambassador.

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2. It was someone at the meeting in Halifax, not a former diplomat who mentiined

it to McCain.

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3. Sir Andrew Wood was in Halifax

Maidan, Crimea and the Obstacles to Democracy in Ukraine
Michael Bociurkiw, Former Spokesperson, OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine
The Hon. Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration
Sir Andrew Wood, Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House
Bohdan Yaremenko, Chairman of the Board, Maidan of Foreign Affairs

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/watch-the-halifax-international-security-forum-2016/