An associate of late Republican Sen. John McCain, Ariz., gave a copy of the Steele dossier to BuzzFeed News in December 2016.

Former State Department official David Kramer, an executive at the McCain Institute, met with BuzzFeed reporter Ken Bensinger on Dec. 29, 2016, according to a court filing released Wednesday that the Daily Caller reviewed. BuzzFeed published the dossier less than two weeks later, on Jan. 10, 2017, after getting it from Kramer.