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!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."