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DownWithTyranny!: The Unexplored Character Issue-- Is John McCain Fit For Public Office At All?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com: McCain Did Not Disclose Keating Business Deal To Investigators
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The Unexplored Character Issue-- Is John McCain Fit For Public Office At All?
DownWithTyranny! —
... It would be no news at all to DWT readers that even if McCain escaped doing hard prison time for his Keating Five corruption, he certainly should have been kicked out of the revolting Gentleman's Club known as the United States Senate for accepting massive bribes from bank swindler and close family friend Charles Keating. Someone just told The New Republic, which is trumpeting exclusive evidence you've never heard. A little late to do any good and probably less effective than the right's ...
McCain Did Not Disclose Keating Business Deal To Investigators
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The New Republic published an explosive story Saturday evening detailing how John McCain, in all likelihood, leaked information to investigators of the Keating Five scandal that was designed to help his image at the expense of the other four Senators involved. ...
McCain Did Not Disclose Keating Business Deal To Investigators
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... The New Republic published an explosive story Saturday evening detailing how John McCain, in all likelihood, leaked information to investigators of the Keating Five scandal that was designed to help his image at the expense of the other four Senators involved. ...
How Did McCain Escape Expulsion from the Senate?
Firedoglake —
... for his fellow Senators to expel McCain from their ranks, had they been discovered at the time.
How did John McCain escape expulsion from the Senate? Leaking details of the investigation, lying under oath about those leaks, and lying to investigators about the details of one's family's business dealings with Charles Keating are certainly valid reasons for being expelled from the Senate.
First, the leaks from the Senate Ethics Committee investigation. Sahil Mahtani reports in The New Republic (my bold): ...
McCain Was The Most Reprehensible Of The Keating Five And He Hasn’t Changed
Firedoglake —
... Teddy at the Campaign Silo pointed out yesterday, citing a damning new article in The New Republic, that John McCain was almost certainly the source for a set of illegal leaks during the Keating Five investigation -- leaks that, if proven, would have been cause for his expulsion from the United States Senate for perjury, not to mention the underlying corruption and malfeasance from his relationship with Charlie Keating.
As The New Republic related: ...
McCain/Palin Bashing (Final Edition)
Discourse.net —
... (transcript)
TPM, Obama On Cheney’s McCain Endorsement: Congratulations, John!
TPM, Breaking the Law for McCain
Digby, Springing A Leak
TPM, Conyers Writes to Chertoff
Bruce Wilson, HuffPo, Palin’s Movement Urges ‘Godly’ To ‘Plunder’ Wealth of The ‘Godless’
Sahil Mahtani, The New Republic, McCain First, Second, And Always
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The McCranky leak tale has Digby wondering why reporters are so keen to "protect people who lie to them and use them for nefarious political purposes"
DownWithTyranny! —
... -- Sahil Mahtani, in "McCain First, Second, and Always," in The New Republic "Golly, if only we'd known. . . . "I will never understand why reporters think it's so important that they protect people who lie to them and use them for nefarious ...
