From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 00:57:03 +0800
To: Lee Tien <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: McCain's War for Security
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At 11:23 PM -0700 6/22/97, Lee Tien wrote:
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>Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there also stuff in the article about
>how McCain had been badly stung by some "ethics" problem, which apparently
>was not really very serious but disturbed him personally and tainted his
>image?

Are you referrring to him being one of the four or five in the "S & L
scandal"? MCain was indeed one of them, along with Alan Cranston of
California, who elected not to run again, and several others. This was
indeed a big new story, lasting at least two years, and McCain's reputation
was hurt badly by it.

>If that's a correct remembering, then that sense of a need to restore his
>image may have made McCain a perfect target for "a treatment" by a clever
>Administration gunning for Pro-CODE (sponsored by Burns, a less powerful
>member of the Commerce Committee chaired by McCain, and someone already on
>McCain's bad side according to Declan).

And we may speculate that FinCEN and CIA had the goods on him, vis-a-vis
kickbacks, illegal contributions, bribes, and suchlike.

(FinCEN is the new J. Edgar Hoover, having dossiers of all financial
dealings. These dossiers can be used to make Congressvermin more compliant.)

--Tim May

There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws.
Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!"
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