Lynch, Jessica
<h4 class="date">=</h4><h4 class="date">recent 60 min? 2014 story complete fabrication</h4><div>
</div><div>3rd day, maint co took several wrong turns, many killed/captured? JL never fired weapon; well cared for in civ hosiptal?</div><h4 class="date">
</h4><h4 class="date">=</h4><div><h4 class="date">Fri May 16, 2008 at 03:17:23 PM PST</h4><div class="intro"><p>John McCain talks straight, but he acts crooked. Mr. Reform strays from the straight path by following crooked lobbyists for their money, money that comes from corporations and brutal foreign governments. </p><p>McCain's been embarrassed several times the last few weeks by lobbyists connected to his campaign. Last week he was forced to fire two lobbyists who had worked for the brutal military junta in Burma/Myanmar, the oppressive goons who are killing people through their refusal to let aid workers in to the country and help the millions of Burmese affected by the cyclone. This morning we learned about a lobbyist working for McCain who also worked for the <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/McCains_conflict_policy.html">governments of Serbia and Qatar</a>. </p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">McCain also had to <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10394.html">dismiss</a> one of his top operatives in Virginia, <font color="#ff0000">Craig Shirley</font>. Shirley's has long been involved in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Craig_Shirley">shady dealings</a> on behalf of the GOP, including hyping the orchestrated "rescue" of US soldier <font color="#ff0000">Jessica Lynch</font> from a hospital in Iraq, and the scurrilous Willie Horton ad used against Michael Dukakis in 1988. </span> Shirley was simultaneously an official with McCain's campaign and involved in an independent campaign against Democrats. The McCain campaign is spinning his dismissal as a matter of principle, when in fact <strong>Shirley was <em>breaking the law</em></strong> by being on both sides of what should be a divide, the candidate campaign, and an independent operation that is legally prohibited from coordinating its activities with the campaign. </p><p>Most of these lobbyists are mid-level operatives who are primarily relied on to collect checks. But in a campaign jammed full of lobbyists, one lobbyist stands above all others: longtime McCain advisor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_R.Black%2C_Jr.">Charlie Black</a>. Charlie Black's mitts haven't only been all over grubby money from corporate special interests. As <a href="http://pol.moveon.org/charlieblack/video.html#facts">MoveOn</a> shows, one of John McCain's top supporters has taken blood money:</p></div></div><div>==</div><h4 class="date">Fri May 16, 2008 at 03:17:23 PM PST</h4><div class="intro"><p>John McCain talks straight, but he acts crooked. Mr. Reform strays from the straight path by following crooked lobbyists for their money, money that comes from corporations and brutal foreign governments. </p><p>McCain's been embarrassed several times the last few weeks by lobbyists connected to his campaign. Last week he was forced to fire two lobbyists who had worked for the brutal military junta in Burma/Myanmar, the oppressive goons who are killing people through their refusal to let aid workers in to the country and help the millions of Burmese affected by the cyclone. This morning we learned about a lobbyist working for McCain who also worked for the <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/McCains_conflict_policy.html">governments of Serbia and Qatar</a>. </p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">McCain also had to <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10394.html">dismiss</a> one of his top operatives in Virginia, <font color="#ff0000">Craig Shirley</font>. Shirley's has long been involved in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Craig_Shirley">shady dealings</a> on behalf of the GOP, including hyping the orchestrated "rescue" of US soldier <font color="#ff0000">Jessica Lynch</font> from a hospital in Iraq, and the scurrilous Willie Horton ad used against Michael Dukakis in 1988. </span> Shirley was simultaneously an official with McCain's campaign and involved in an independent campaign against Democrats. The McCain campaign is spinning his dismissal as a matter of principle, when in fact <strong>Shirley was <em>breaking the law</em></strong> by being on both sides of what should be a divide, the candidate campaign, and an independent operation that is legally prohibited from coordinating its activities with the campaign. </p><p>Most of these lobbyists are mid-level operatives who are primarily relied on to collect checks. But in a campaign jammed full of lobbyists, one lobbyist stands above all others: longtime McCain advisor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Charles_R.Black%2C_Jr.">Charlie Black</a>. Charlie Black's mitts haven't only been all over grubby money from corporate special interests. As <a href="http://pol.moveon.org/charlieblack/video.html#facts">MoveOn</a> shows, one of John McCain's top supporters has taken blood money:</p></div>