How is Bomber McKook a "HERO"? Dropping bombs from 30,000 feet on innocent
people in an
illegal war is a "HERO"? Sounds like terrorism to me.
Seems you want "terrorists" executed for doing what you call McKook a
"HERO".
McKook needs professional help and a swift kick in the balls, if he had
any.
Bomber McKook killed women & kids and should've been executed in Hanoi as
a
war criminal.
Later Bomber McKook was aligned with the Keating Five criminals like Neil
"Loves Kids" Bush.
The Keating Five (or Keating Five Scandal) refers to a Congressional
scandal
related to the collapse of most of the Savings and Loan institutions in
the
United States in the late 1980s.
Following the deregulation of the banking industry in the 1980s, savings
and
loan associations (also known as thrifts) were given the flexibility to
invest their depositors' funds in commercial real estate. (Previously,
they
had been restricted to investing in residential real estate.) Many savings
and loan associations began making risky investments. As a result, the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the federal agency that regulates the
industry, tried to clamp down on the trend. In so doing, however, the
FHLBB
clashed with the Reagan administration, whose policy was deregulation of
many industries, including the thrift industry. The administration
declined
to submit budgets to Congress that would request more funding for the
FHLBB's regulatory efforts.
In 1989, the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association of Irvine, Calif.,
collapsed. Lincoln's chairman, Charles H. Keating Jr., was faulted for the
thrift's failure. Keating, however, told the House Banking Committee that
the FHLBB and its former chief Edwin J. Gray were pursuing a vendetta
against him. Gray testified that several U.S. senators had approached him
and requested that he ease off on the Lincoln investigation. It came out
that these senators had been beneficiaries of $1.3 million (collective
total) in campaign contributions from Keating.
This allegation set off a series of investigations by the California
government, the United States Department of Justice, and the Senate Ethics
Committee. The ethics committee's investigation focused on five senators:
Alan Cranston (D-CA); Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ); John Glenn (D-OH); John
McCain (R-AZ); and Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D-MI), who became known as the
Keating Five.
After months of testimony revealed that all five senators acted improperly
to differing degrees, the senators continually said they were following
the
status quo of campaign funding practices. In August 1991, the committee
concluded that Cranston, DeConcini, and Riegle's conduct constituted
substantial interference with the FHLBB's enforcement efforts and that
they
had done so at the behest of Charles Keating. The committee recommended
censure for Cranston and criticized the other four for "questionable
conduct."
As it happened, Cranston, who was nearly 80 years of age, had already
decided not to run for re-election in 1992. DeConcini and Riegle continued
to serve in the Senate until their terms expired, but they did not seek
re-election in 1994. DeConcini was appointed by President Bill Clinton in
February, 1995 to the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage
Cor****ation. [1]
Glenn did choose to run for re-election in 1992 and it was anticipated
that
he would have some difficulty winning a fourth term in the Senate.
However,
Glenn handily defeated Lieutenant Governor R. Michael DeWine for one more
term in the Senate before retiring in 1999.
The scandal was followed by a number of attempts to adopt campaign finance
reform-spearheaded by U.S. Sen. David Boren (D-OK)-but most attempts died
in
committee. A weakened reform was passed in 1993. Substantial campaign
finance reform was not passed until the adoption of the McCain-Feingold
Act
in 2002.
The only remaining member of the Keating Five still actively serving in
the
U.S. Senate is John McCain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five
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