<![CDATA[Keating Economics: McCain Counsel Calls Investigation A Political Hit Job]]>

1.0 link 132262 <![CDATA[Keating Economics: McCain Counsel Calls Investigation A Political Hit Job]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/06/mccain-counsel-calls-keat_n_132262.html Tasked with defending John McCain's past involvement in the "Keating Five" scandal, the Senator's legal representative tried to dismiss the entire significance of what occurred some two decades ago.

Speaking to reporters on a conference call, John Dowd, a partner at the powerhouse lobbying/consulting firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, painted the Keating investigation as a "political smear job" led by Democrats who needed to make the issue a bipartisan embarrassment rather than own it themselves.

"He was the...

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