Only a RINO (Republican-In-Name-Only) would have given a smear report with such unverified, non-credible info about a fellow Republican to the intel community.
And that’s what avid (read, raging) anti-Trumper, John McCain, did.
He admits he couldn’t authenticate the information, but rather than discuss it with Party leaders (or the target of the report), he passed it on to Obama’s intel agency?
Bad enough that Pres-elect Trump has to watch his back with rabid Democrats, but when you add treacherous RINO’s like McCain, the job gets even tougher.