Revealed: former British ambassador Sir Andrew Wood's key role in Trump investigation

[FarCenter]

Members of the international media have been trying to find out the identity of the British ambassador who had spoken to Senator McCain about the Trump allegations after reports of a meeting began to surface in the US. Sir Andrew told The Independent: “Yes I did meet Senator McCain and his aides at the conference.

“The issue of Donald Trump and Russia was very much in the news and it was natural to talk about it. We spoke about the kind of activities the Russians can be engaged in. We also spoke about how Mr Trump may find himself in a position where there could be an attempt to blackmail him with Kompromat (the Russian term for compromising material) and claims that there were audio and video tapes in existence.”

Sir Andrew, who became an advisor to Tony Blair after serving as ambassador to Russia from 1995 to 2000 and then Yugoslavia, said: “I would like to stress that I did not pass on any dossier to Senator McCain or anyone else and I did not see a dossier at the time. I do know Christopher Steele and in my view he is very professional and thorough in what he does."

Now an associate fellow at the Chatham House think-tank, he added: “Senator McCain and I talked about Russian hacking in the US election as well. I find it difficult to believe that Donald Trump could not have known something about the hacking. He had basically asked people to prove it; he has never said this is something which should be investigated. My view is that these are serious matters and that they should be investigated. I don’t think I have done anything wrong at all in what I have done.”

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British intelligence services were told about the Trump allegations by Mr Steele, The Independent has learned. A senior official from one of the services confirmed that this week, before the news of the dossier broke in the US.

Under normal procedure the seriousness of the issue and the importance of the person in the centre of it, the President-elect of the US, would mean that the Prime Minister and the relevant members of her cabinet would be kept informed.

This means that as Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson would almost certainly have been told about the allegations by MI6 and would have been aware of them during his visit to America this week to meet officials close to Mr Trump.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-russia-dossier-leak-sir-andrew-wood-john-mccain-british-ambassador-spy-a7524931.html

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http://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2017/01/12/2107676766444080736/640x360_MP4_2107676766444080736.mp4

[Wellstone ruled]

1. As the day goes on,

the Buzzfeed story has good legs.

[CentralMass]

2. We salute you Sir Andrew Wood.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. I should've known better. Never fucking read the comments section. These

fucking assholes are everywhere.

[Generator]

4. Fucking McCain suspects Trump is a traitor

still endorses and votes for him because he hates Obama so fucking much. Rest of article good. ALWAYS PARTY BEFORE COUNTRY. Republicons are the best Nazi's ever created.

[Generator]

5. Moscovian Candidate in the White House.

Can I be British now? PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[lindysalsagal]

6. We'll see if the u.s. media follow suit on these UK articles.