Why did McCain write a letter on behalf of a person charged with a hate crime?

[ProSense]

October 07, 2008

John McCain: Dishonest and Dishonorable

Palling around with terrorists:

John Fleming: McCain wrote on behalf of ex-trooper now awaiting trial in civil rights slaying: Presidential hopeful John McCain has a connection to a former Alabama state trooper charged with the murder of a man at the height of the civil rights movement, according to documents obtained by The Star. In the early 1990s, Sen. McCain, R-Ariz., wrote a letter to the State Department regarding James B. Fowler, who was at the time imprisoned in Thailand on narcotics charges....

In 2005, The Star published an interview with James B. Fowler who admitted publicly for the first time that he shot Jimmie Lee Jackson, during a melee in February 1965 in the west Alabama town of Marion. Fowler insisted it was in self defense.... Fowler, whose trial was scheduled to start this month until a judge delayed it Monday, has a complex and varied background. He fought in the Vietnam War, he has said, to avenge his brother's death. He later worked with military prosecutors to expose a murder-for-hire plot in Southeast Asia. He raised a family in Thailand and in Alabama, and for about five years in the early 1990s, he was in a Thai prison cell after being arrested for heroin trafficking....

Robert Fischer, a press spokesman for McCain's Senate office in Washington, said files in his office do not go back to 1991, so he was not able to find additional correspondence involving the case, but added that "it is our policy not to comment on cases such as this." A McCain campaign press official... said Monday the office's spokesman... was not available to comment.... A press official at McCain's headquarters... could not provide comment to a regional publication...

From a diary at Daily Kos (not sure where this came from):

Why is McCain writing letters on behalf of a suspected (and pretty much confirmed) hate criminal, who does not even reside in his state? Perhaps he feels some strange brotherhood with the man over his service in the Vietnam War? All questions that demand answers.

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McCain Voted To Protect Domestic Terrorists Who Carry Out Violence At Abortion Clinics

[The Magistrate]

1. Because Old Lying John Is A White Supremacist Murderer's Best Friend, Ma'am: He Loves Those Sorts

He needs their votes, and knows his crowds and his party's base....

[ProSense]

3. Of course, the MSM media is completely unaware of this. n/t

[FrenchieCat]

2. And they talk about Character!

[MadMaddie]

4. Well because John is a racist himself!

That is why he couldn't look Obama in the eye! How can he look a man who he thinks is beneath him in they eye!

McCain will rue the day when he wanted to start playing dirty because all of his skeletons are coming out of the closet! He is not an honerable man and he never was.

[ProSense]

5. Would be great if someone in the media looked into this. n/t

[geek tragedy]

6. Key fact: Fowler was KNOWN as the shooter right away.

He just wasn't charged because of the racism of the Alabama judicial system.