John McCain sent his assistant to Europe to hand-carry the Steele dossier
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to him in the US, and then McCain personally delivered it to James Comey at the FBI.
He didn't get the dossier and sit on it or otherwise suppress it. (Weeks or months earlier it had been passed along to someone in the FBI, but nothing appeared to be happening with it.)
The Rethugs in power must have hated him for that. And we should all be grateful.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/11/trump-russia-report-opposition-research-john-mccain
In mid-November, the documents took another route into Washington that ultimately led to them being mentioned in the joint intelligence report on Russian interference that was delivered to President Obama and President-elect Trump. On 18 November, the annual Halifax International Security Forum opened in the Canadian city, bringing together serving and former security and foreign policy officials from around the world.
Senator John McCain, a hawkish Republican, was there and was introduced to a former senior western diplomat who had seen the documents, knew their source and thought him highly reliable. McCain decided the implications were sufficiently alarming to dispatch a trusted emissary, a former US official, to meet the source and find out more.
The emissary hastily arranged a transatlantic flight and met the source at the airport as arranged. (The Guardian has agreed not to specify the city or country where the meeting took place.) The meeting had a certain cold war tradecraft to it, as he was told to look for a man with a copy of the Financial Times. Having found each other, the retired counter-intelligence officer drove the emissary to his house, where they discussed the documents and their background.
The emissary flew back within 24 hours and showed McCain the documents, saying it was hard to impossible to verify them without a proper investigation. McCain said he was reluctant to get involved, lest it be perceived as payback for insulting remarks Trump had made about him during his rambunctious campaign.
However, on 9 December, McCain arranged a one-on-one meeting with Comey, with no aides present, and handed them over.
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he wasn't compromisable, at least not to the degree we are seeing in the rest. That might not be a real word! 
I have a pretty good grip on the language but some days, I am just not sure when an unusual word comes up in my head, at least I could spell it! 
Just let that sink in. He saw all the names and all the connections before the FBI redacted those facts.
It makes me wonder why he didn't leave the GOP immediately?!
Maybe he thought he would be more effectual working from inside the party?
Can I gag yet?
“I like people who weren’t captured”, which seemed to be the beginning of his venom toward McCain...but McCain didn’t deliver the Dossier until about a year and a half later.
So my best guess is that trump knew from the get-go that Putin hated McCain for his Magnitsky Act sponsorship (along with Ben Cardin), and trump subsequently spewed anti-McCain rhetoric the first chance he got (for NO apparent reason at all) -
May 2011 - McCain and Cardin present their case re: Magnitsky Act:
Mr. McCAIN. I thank the Chair.
Mr. President, in a few minutes my colleague from Maryland, Senator Cardin, will be introducing a bill which I am a cosponsor of, along with a large bipartisan group of our colleagues. I wish to emphasize at the outset that some may characterize this legislation as anti-Russian. In fact, I believe it is pro-Russian. It is pro the people of Russia. It is pro the people who stand up for human rights and democracy in that country which, unfortunately, seems to be sadly deprived of.
Much more:
https://www.csce.gov/international-impact/press-and-media/speeches/senators-cardin-and-mccain-engage-colloquy-magnitsky
December 2012:
The Magnitsky Act, formally known as the Russia and Moldova Jackson–Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, is a bipartisan bill passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Obama in December 2012, intending to punish Russian officials responsible for the death of Russian tax accountant Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow prison in 2009.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act
July 2015:
“I like people who weren’t captured”
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/trump-attacks-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured-120317
December 2016, McCain delivers Dossier to Comey
As Bill Browder would tell us,
“its all about sanctions”
- always was, always will be
On edit, adding tweet from Mr. Browder yesterday:
@vkaramurza
and I pay tribute to John McCain on
@AliVelshi
@MSNBC
. Sen. John McCain stood up for the victims of
Putin’s dictatorship including Sergei Magnitsky and
we got some measure of justice with the passage of
the Magnitsky Act. RIP hero John McCain
Link to tweet
(and if you have any use for what I posted, please do help yourself!!)
I just could NOT puzzle out yesterday when I wondered, WHY was trump such a viscous jerk towards McCain, when I knew his Dossier delivery came so much later after that? So it has to be the Magnitsky Act, and it’s just that simple.
It’s along the same lines of trump’s targeting McCabe and Strzok (and Comey?) - either trump or Putin knew they had trumps number, and so he (they) disposed of them accordingly. It’s just...unimaginable, but here we are.
HANG TOUGH, mom!!
