nothing from the libs? nothing On Oct 6, 7:38 pm, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PHOENIX -- The McCain campaign pushed back hard against the new Obama > attack over the Keating Five, arguing that the Arizona senator was > treated unfairly by the Senate ethics investigation and asserting that > John McCain had been much more open about his relationship with > disgraced thrift executive Charles Keating than Obama has been about > his connection with one-time radical William Ayers. > > In a conference call with reporters this afternoon, John Dowd, the > Washington lawyer who represented McCain during the Senate > investigation, called the inquiry a "classic political smear job" by > the Democrats running the Senate at the time, saying that they only > included McCain to make sure that a Republican was among the targets. > "John had not done anything wrong," Dowd said. > > Dowd's point of view was amplified by Robert Bennett, the Washington > lawyer and Democrat who served as special counsel to the Senate Ethics > Committee during the Keating Five investigation, which focused on > whether McCain and other senators exercised improper political > influence over the regulation of Keating's failed Lincoln Savings & > Loan. > > In an interview, Bennett said McCain should never have been dragged > into the ethics case to begin with. He said that after his own lengthy > investigation, he came to the conclusion that the case against McCain > and former Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) "should have been dropped" because > the evidence suggested that once McCain understood that the Justice > Department was investigating Keating, he backed off any involvement. > Dowd noted that McCain threw Keating,once a strong supporter, out of > his office after Keating pressed him to intervene in his case. > > Bennett said former Sen. Howell Hefflin (D-Ala.) insisted that the two > be included in the formal public inquiry because otherwise there would > have been a month of public hearings "with no Republicans in the > dock." The other members of the Keating Five were Democrats. > > "It was clear that McCain should not have been at the table nor should > Glenn," Bennett said. "I felt it was unfair for McCain to be included > as part of the Keating Five." > > http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/06/mccain_lawyers_... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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