Listen to McCain's lawyer say today that the Keating Five investigation was simply a partisan smear campaign against John McCain

"Senator [George] Mitchell [D-ME] was the [Senate] majority leader and [Democratic Senator] Howell Heflin [D-AL] was his stooge and he was doing what he was told because they had, the rest were Democrats in the hearing. So it's sort of a classic political smear job on John."

- John Dowd, lawyer for John McCain, on McCain campaign conference call to discuss the Keating Five Scandal, October 6, 2008.

McCain campaign conference call, today - McCain's lawyer is doing most of the talking.