Interesting article from the Washington Post that talks about Cindy McCain's drug use which could have put her into jail for a felony charge. (Wrote about this before)

Her misuse of painkillers prompted an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and local prosecutors that put her in legal jeopardy. A doctor with McCain's medical charity who supplied her with prescriptions for the drugs lost his license and never practiced again. The charity, the American Voluntary Medical Team, eventually had to be closed in the wake of the controversy. Her husband was forced to admit publicly that he was absent much of the time she was having problems and was not aware of them.

Have said before that obviously John mcCain is not a family man. He not only was an adulterer, but as that last graf says he didn't even know she had a drug addiction problem BECAUSE HE WASN'T AROUND. Some family value.

Here's about her own charity that she was not only stealing drugs from, with the help of a doctor, but forging other people's names on the prescription slips.

Her charity, AVMT, kept a ready supply of antibiotics and over-the-counter pain medications needed to fulfill its medical mission. It also secured prescriptions for the narcotic painkillers Vicodin, Percocet and Tylenol 3 in quantities of 100 to 400 pills, the county report shows.

McCain started taking narcotics for herself, the report shows. To get them, she asked the charity's medical director, John Max Johnson, to make out prescriptions for the charity in the names of three AVMT employees.

The employees did not know their names were being used. And under DEA regulations, Johnson was supposed to use a form to notify federal officials that he was ordering the narcotics for the charity. It is illegal for an organization to use personal prescriptions to fill its drug needs.

The big question is, why wasn't Cindy McCain put in the slammer?

McCain's conduct left her facing federal charges of obtaining "a controlled substance by misrepresenting, fraud, forgery, deception or subterfuge." Experts say she could have faced a 20-year prison sentence.

Dowd negotiated a deal with the U.S. attorney's office allowing McCain, as a first-time offender, to avoid charges and enter a diversion program that required community service, drug treatment and reimbursement to the DEA for investigative costs. Johnson agreed to surrender his medical license and retire.

P.S. It's interesting, and telling, to me that this week Tom Gosinksi decided to talk about this on the record and yesterday all of a sudden McCain's camp comes in with a drug abuse rant against Obama. Even though he was 18 years old at the time and wrote about it in his book. The man who's doing it, breathtakingly, is named, um, KEATING and he's trying to imply that OBAMA IS HIDING SOMETHING. Looks like more of that "Hey Look Over There" stuff that was purposely thrown out there because of this big story about Cindy McCain, who had no scruples but to steal from her own charity and forge other people's names in order to feed her own drug addiction.

The criticism is the latest in a spate of increasingly aggressive attacks from the McCain-Palin camp.

It's unclear what Keating meant by "a guy of the street," but his assertion that Obama should "admit" his brief drug use in high school makes little sense, since it was Obama himself who did disclose it in his memoir published 12 years ago.

Keating was one of McCain's earlier supporters, endorsing the Arizona Senator even before he officially launched his 2008 presidential bid. Keating is a member of McCain's National Campaign Committee, and serves as co-chair for various campaign groups, such as Catholics for McCain and Sportsmen for McCain.