Kramer revealed in previous testimony that he held a meeting about the dossier with a reporter from BuzzFeed News, who he says snapped photos of the controversial document without Kramer’s permission when he left the room to go to the bathroom. The unnamed McCain staff member is known to be David J. Steele said he was “absolutely flabbergasted” when BuzzFeed published his election reports. Steele also said he understood from a former Ambassador that Senator McCain requested that Steele trust the staff member. Steele explained that the staff member had spent his career handling sensitive intelligence. Steele told the OIG that he trusted the staff member to handle his reports discretely and that the staff member betrayed that trust. Additionally, the staff member testified that Steele was aware that the staff member was furnishing Steele’s reports to The Washington Post. According to the McCain Institute staff member’s testimony in the same litigation, Steele requested that the staff member meet with BuzzFeed, and that Steele neither requested nor prohibited the staff member from sharing the reports with BuzzFeed. Steele testified in foreign litigation that he did not provide his reports to journalists or media organizations and did not authorize anyone to share them. Steele made the remarks about Buzzfeed and the McCain staff member during an interview with the IG. That tidbit was buried in a footnote on page 176 of the Justice Department’s recently released 476-page Inspector General (IG) report on the FBI’s Russia collusion investigation. Anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele testified that he was “absolutely flabbergasted” when BuzzFeed published the dossier after an advisor to late Senator John McCain shared the controversial document with the media outlet purportedly against Steele’s wishes.
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