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Part of McCain's denial appears untrue
Newsweek's Michael Isikoff finds a 2002 deposition by McCain that throws into question one part of his campaign's sweeping defense against a New York Times report.
Alex Koppelman [2008-02-22]

  • @ Elephantman

    Actually,

    McCain's official activities were open.

    --Elephantman

    if you'll read the Democracry Now report, they were not:

    ANGELA CAMPBELL: ... We were never sent a copy of Senator McCain’s letters by him, did not find out about them until December 15th, the day of the vote, when someone from the FCC’s general counsel’s office faxed copies over to me. So the FCC rules explicitly prohibit communications that go to the merits or communications that go to urging the FCC to act by a specific date. So this was a clear violation of the FCC’s rules. And on December 20th, we actually filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission’s general counsel, alleging that he had violated the rules, and we asked for them to act on it right away.

    http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/22/behind_the_john_mccain_lobbying_scandal

    -- rhenley
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    Friday, February 22, 2008 01:33 PM
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