Keating 5 gives McCain an "October Surprise"- Lied under oath and leaked!

[agentS]

Happy Halloween you lying snitching corrupt SOB.

http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/11/02/how-did-mccain-escape-expulsion-from-the-senate/

Yet the Ethics Committee's was not the only investigation into the scandal. There were two other probes at the time that got barely any public attention--both of which largely focused on McCain himself. These were probes into illicit leaks about the proceedings of the Ethics Committee--leaks that repeatedly benefited McCain and hurt his Keating Five colleagues. One of those senators described the leaks at the time as a "violation of ethical behavior at least as serious as anything of which we senators have been accused."

The leaks, if they were coming from a senator, were also illegal. 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. 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. These, then, were not the usual Washington disclosures: Discovered, they could have stopped the career of any Washington politician in his tracks.

The two investigations into the leaks suggested McCain's involvement but were officially inconclusive. New evidence, obtained in recent weeks, again points back to the McCain camp. The investigator of those leaks now says that he does not doubt that they came from McCain or his team. A reporter who possessed evidence in the Keating case now says he believes that McCain was the source and got away with it. Finally, a senator who has emerged as a key backer of McCain's presidential campaign turns out to have authored a letter stating flatly that McCain was the source of the damning leaks. Put together, a large record of evidence now points in the direction of Senator McCain. Far from McCain's reputation of putting "country first," these leaks depict a formidable politician willing to go through great lengths to maintain his standing. More than McCain's relationship with Keating, it is the story of the Keating investigation leaks that voters should know.

McCain shouldn't be a senator, let alone a president.

He would shoot your kid if it would swing a purple state in his favor.

[No Elephants]

1. McCain has ALWAYS done whatever he wanted. Anyone who thinks he has changed is naive. It's only

that he started emulating Goldwater, then Reagan, and ended up emulating Rove/Dummya. But, he always did what he thought would get him what he wanted. This is NOT a nice guy who changed in the last few years. People are deluded on that one.

[Delphinus]

2. M$M

needs to talk about this ...

[formercia]

3. John McCain is a sleazy, self-entitled old Navy brat.

He shoved his way through the system because his daddy and gramps were Admirals. He lived off their reputation like a blood-sucking parasite and would probably not made it into the Naval Academy, let alone pass if it were not for them.
He is a user, liar and manipulator.

[WinkyDink]

6. He's a stubby-handed grotesque with the same hot-shot playboy pilot mentality he's always had.

[formercia]

10. He's a lot like Junior in many ways.

They are both examples of why monarchies eventually collapse from inbreeding and corruption.

[book_worm]

4. only if the msm picks up on this will it get any wide exposure

and I doubt they will.

[bushisanidiot]

5. And the silence by the MSM is deafening..

they will carry McHate's water right up to the end. They will not stray from their right wing talking points.

[dmr]

7. Who is the Senator who outed McCain?

"Finally, a senator who has emerged as a key backer of McCain's presidential campaign turns out to have authored a letter stating flatly that McCain was the source of the damning leaks."

http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2008/11/02/how-did-mccain-escape-expulsion-from-the-senate/

Maverick, my ass!

His history is disturbing. McCain is an orchestrated, and out of tune, myth.

[agentS]

11. Maverick? No, Loose cannon? Yes.

Loose cannons have a habit of sinking friendly ships.

[DeeDeeNY]

8. Was this in the mainstream media at all?

Funny how they all scrambled to write about Obama's half-aunt but nothing about this.

[agentS]

12. On "The View" Hasselbeck was blabbing that mcCain was....

"cleared of all wrongdoing".

Right...and now we know why.
He lied about his involvement with Keating and ratted out everyone else so they'd take the hit and he'd get to keep his career intact.

IS THIS THE BEST THE REPIGS can do in 2008? A shameless moral and ethical hypocrite?!

[Rockholm]

9. Payback is indeed a Beatch.