Go ahead, click this link to the washingtonpost.com and ask yourself why this Google search on “gosinski” would pull up this:

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And yet when you click that link you get this:

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It couldn’t be that the capital city’s paper of record would be doing a favor to John McCain by hiding this story of John McCain lying and abusing his senatorial power to cover up his wife’s stealing of drugs from her charity and avoid prosecution by the DEA… could it?  [Major hat-tip to AmericaBLOG]

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Open Left:: Did McCain Tamper with the Drug Enforcement Agency to Protect His Career?

You’ve probably heard about Cindy McCain stealing prescription drugs from her charity in the 1990s.  Today, Tom Gosinski, her former employee and a close friend of the McCain’s, came out on the record about the entire sordid episode.  …  Gosinski stayed quiet out of fear until today; a recent fight with cancer has strengthened his resolve.  As he told me today, if he can beat cancer, he can go on the record regarding how the McCain’s do business.

Gosinski was an employee of Cindy McCain who helped her run her charity, the American Voluntary Medical Team (AVMT) in the early to mid-1990s.  At the time Gosinski worked for her, Cindy McCain was addicted to prescription painkillers, taking between 30-50 pills a day of [Vicodin] and/or Percocet.  She had doctors writing out prescriptions in other peoples’ names, including Gosinski.  When Gosinski found one of the prescription slips, he got angry, and Cindy had him fired.  

Now, it begins to get dangerous and vicious after Gosinksi was fired.  At first the McCain’s said they’d help him find a job, but it became clear to Gosinksi that McCain was using his political connections to blackball him from another job in Republican politics in Arizona.  So he sued the McCain’s for wrongful termination, and went to the Drug Enforcement Agency to find out the legal repercussions of having prescriptions for painkillers written in his name.  To retaliate, McCain then had his political ally, Rick Romley, open an extortion investigation against Gosinksi.  In the course of that investigation, it was revealed that the DEA was circling around Cindy McCain and her charity.  It’s not clear what they were investigating her for, but it is clear she was bringing illegal prescription drugs around the world on a diplomatic passport secured for her by McCain’s Senate office.

McCain’s Senate staff and Senate resources were intimately involved in Cindy’s work with the charity.  John McCain procured her a diplomatic passport, which meant that her bags were not searched by customs, and Mark Salter and Torie Clarke were both coordinating with Gosinski on logistics for the trips abroad.

The charity was supposed to conduct medical missions abroad, but Cindy was also stealing from the charity’s supply of drugs for her own personal use.  In August of 1994, the story was going to come out, and so John McCain came out with his side of the story.  He claimed he didn’t know that Cindy McCain was using drugs until 1994, a clear lie.  Cindy McCain overdosed in 1991, and John McCain went to the hospital in Sedona and told the hospital staff not to make the information about Cindy public.  Gosinski heard about the overdose in 1992, after he began work for Cindy McCain.

There are lots of unanswered questions, but the basic contours of the story are clear.  John McCain used his position as a Senator to help his wife abuse illegal drugs and avoid being searched by customs, and somehow his wife managed to avoid any charges by the DEA or the state (which has mandatory minimums in cases like this) on drug charges despite ample evidence.  Did the DEA or the state not file charges against her because of political pressure?  Did they keep this on the Federal level to avoid mandatory minimums for Cindy McCain because of political pressure from McCain?  Did John McCain and/or his Senate staff tamper with a criminal investigation of his wife and her conspiracy to fraudulently obtain illegal drugs?

Silly blogger.  It’s OK if you’re a Republican.  I’ve noticed that doctor-shopping pill-popper Rush Limbaugh still has a job and managed to avoid a sharp look from the DEA and a stiff mandatory minimum sentence.  But if you are liberal or counterculture, like Tommy Chong, you don’t even have to be caught with drugs to have the DEA publicly humiliate and imprison you; they’ll spend months of time and millions of dollars to bust you for just selling the glass used by some to smoke marijuana!

Stop for a second and imagine that Michelle Obama was popping 30-50 Vicodin and Percocet a day, obtaining them through forged prescriptions, stealing the drugs from a charity she runs, and it is alleged that Barack Obama was using his Senate privilege to get her a diplomatic passport to help her hide her drugs while traveling, pressure the hospital to remain quiet about her overdose, and curry favor with the DEA and others to avoid prosecution, then lying about the details of the scandal.  Got that in your mind?

Do you think under that scenario that the first time you’d be hearing this whistleblower story would be in the Daily Audio Stash?  Do you think Barack Obama would have even won his state senate race, much less US senate and the nomination of the Democratic Party for president?

(For more details on the story, including Gosinski’s personal journal, see this 1994 article from the Phoenix New Times.)

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Cindy McCain: Drug Dealer – DrugDealerCindy.com

Our friend Mason Tvert and the good folks at SAFER have announced a new publicity campaign called “Drug Dealer Cindy”, which highlights the fact that Mrs. John McCain is a beer heiress guilty of pushing a drug more harmful than alcohol.

I’d also like to add that Mrs. McCain drives around Arizona with a personalized license plate reading “MS BUD”, which I can guarantee would be yanked as a “drug promoting reference” if it were on a cannabis user’s car.  Also, don’t forget that Cindy McCain is an admitted drug addict who stole Percocet and Vicodin from her own non-profit charity medical relief organization.  Mrs. McCain did no prison time for that crime, which defense lawyers noted would probably have been the case if she were a poor minority woman not married to a US senator.

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