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McCain’s Focus on Georgia Raises Question of Propriety August 15, 2008

Posted by trouble97018 in Foreign Policy, McCain, News, Obama, Politics.
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After Chiding Obama, He Dwells on Crisis as a President Might

By Dan Eggen and Robert Barnes

Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, August 15, 2008; Page A16

Standing behind a lectern in Michigan this week, with two trusted senators ready to do his bidding, John McCain seemed to forget for a moment that he was only running for president.

Asked about his tough rhetoric on the ongoing conflict in Georgia, McCain began: “If I may be so bold, there was another president . . .”

He caught himself and started again: “At one time, there was a president named Ronald Reagan who spoke very strongly about America’s advocacy for democracy and freedom.”

With his Democratic opponent on vacation in Hawaii, the senator from Arizona has been doing all he can in recent days to look like President McCain, particularly when it comes to the ongoing international crisis in Georgia.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says he talks to McCain, a personal friend, several times a day. McCain’s top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, was until recently a paid lobbyist for Georgia’s government. McCain also announced this week that two of his closest allies, Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), would travel to Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi on his behalf, after a similar journey by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Source Article

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1. trouble97018 - August 16, 2008

McCrazy’s actions are not only incredibly presumptuous but also they may very well be illegal. There is a law on the books called the Logan Act. The text of the act reads as follows:

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.

This seems really clear to me. By sending his own representatives, contacting the countries involved in the issue and all of the other things McCrazy is doing is a direct violation of the Logan Act.

I call upon the Dept. of Justice and the Senate Ethics Panel to rein the loose cannon in before he starts WWIII.

~Susan~
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