Letters to the Editor
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Glad to see Keating Five is back
Just read the entire NYT article. From what is said, it is a bit shady to be sure. But between the lines of a carefully edited and heavily scrutinized story, there is a lot there. Beyond the (admittedly) tawdry romantic details, it is VERY important to start undoing John McCain's "straight talking" myth. He was heavily implicated and partially censured for using improper influence to help a business associate defraud the taxpayers of the United States. If that isn't an ethics violation, I don't know what is. So to see him now in his maverick incarnation playing a holier-than-thou ethics reformer is disgusting. And to know that 10 years AFTER the Keating Five scandal alledgedly made him clean up his act he was doing the same thing is very important for people to know. It's a pattern and about time someone brought this up. Just because it happened a while ago doesn't mean it's not important.