McCain Did Not Disclose Keating Business Deal To Investigators
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.
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I covered McCain as a journalist during the Keating days. His relationship with Keating was typical of the compromised political relationships both parties engaged in during the deregulated S&L days. He was no better or worse than the dozens of other elected officials who took the money and did the bidding of the Charles Keatings of the time. And they did it to us again, which is why we are now bailing out the financial services sector to the tune of nearly a trillion bucks. Heck of a job Johnny.