McCain Did Not Disclose Keating Business Deal To Investigators

[catgirl]

Sam Stein at Huffington Post:

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.

If the allegation is true -- and TNR makes a healthy case as to its veracity -- it would mean that McCain violated Senate rules and could have been expelled from that body.

"All five senators -- including McCain -- had testified under oath and under the U.S. penal code that the leaks did not come from their camps," Sahil Mahtani reports. "The leaks were also prohibited by rules of the Senate Ethics Committee; according to the rules of the Senate, anyone caught leaking such information could face expulsion from the body."

But this is not be the only instance in which McCain defied the rules of the Senate when seeking to absolve himself of any wronging in the Keating affair. Public records in Arizona reveal that the Senator was also dishonest in discussing the extent of financial transactions he and his family had with the disgraced Savings and Loans chief.

More:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/02/mccain-did-not-disclose-k_n_140069.html

[rucky]

1. Cindy McCain may not do the laundry...

but I think she has some laundering skills.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Two things about this story:

1) It shows McNutso has been an unrepentant bastard for far longer than anybody knew.

2) This story will not make a whit of difference in changing the votes of any perceptible portion of Undecideds, which is the only thing that matters right now. Remember the Bush DUI story? It's deja vu all over again.

[mrJJ]

3. ....till death do us part."

McCain aided developer's bargain-price purchase of Fort Ord land

"An Arizona businessman with help from Sen. John McCain's office paid the federal government a mere fraction of the market value when he bought a Fort Ord land parcel in 1999, an Army appraisal obtained by The Herald shows. "

http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_10703347

Charlie Keatings love note

In 1986 John McCain wrote a political note — on official House of Representatives stationary — apologizing to Charles H. Keating Jr. for his campaign having listed his good friend and supporter as part of McCain's Senate campaign finance committee.
Keating responded with a handwritten note — addressed to "senator," seven months before McCain won his Senate seat — telling him not to sweat it, "I'm yours till death do us part."
The back-and-forth came when McCain was still in the House but seeking a Senate seat, and the year before he and a handful of other senators met with banking regulators on behalf of Keating.
McCain wrote: "As you know, I am deeply appreciative of your friendship and support over the years, and I would not want to do anything which would offend you. Please accept my apology, and be assured that there will be no future repetition of this kind."
Six days later Keating sent a handwritten note back assuring McCain he has done, and can do, no wrong.

"Don't be silly. You can call me anything, write anything or do anything. I'm yours till death do us part."

letter on McCain's letterhead

[RC]

4. Why do we tolerate all this high level corruption in our government?

What will it take to wake us, U.S. up? Merely electing Obama is not addressing the problem if the criminals walk.