More Attacks to Expect Against McCain

There is also the issue from 1994 regarding federal prosecutors looking into whether the senator's wife received special treatment when she was allowed to apply for a diversion program rather than face prosecution for stealing painkillers from an international medical charity she headed.

Even after it turned out Cindy McCain lied about her status with federal prosecutors and about the dates when she'd entered treatment, it never blew up into scandal. Her husband by her side, she entered a federal diversion program instead of spending years doing time, and when she left, her record was cleared.

None of this was bad for McCain.  Until only days after his wife's legal agreement was reached, McCain voted against crime legislation that would have provided $1 billion in funding for more diversion programs that might have helped others.