McCain First, Second, And Always
Should he have been expelled from the Senate? Exclusive evidence reveals the Keating Five story you've never heard.
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 ... Full Story »
Posted by Tanya J. Maurer
The other four senators were Democrats, and McCain leaked information to try to pass the scrutiny onto them. McCain was not censured in large part also because the head of the committee was a Republican and wanted to put more blame on Democrats. McCain has a long history of reaching across the aisle.