Key Trump dossier players clash over media leaks

Two pivotal dossier players, Christopher Steele and David Kramer, have provided strikingly different versions of how eight Washington news outlets were provided with the document’s anti-Trump charges during the presidential transition.

Mr. Steele, the dossier’s creator, said in a written, signed declaration in a London libel case that he instructed Mr. Kramer to jealously guard the document except for national security purposes tied to Sen. John McCain.

Mr. Kramer, a McCain associate, contradicts this account. He has testified that Mr. Steele told him to freely pass the information to media,...