Cindy Story Fizzles

The mystery of the missing Washington Post article has been solved, as they published a very long front-page story today about Cindy McCain's drug addiction. I have to say that I think they puled their punches, however. Mainly it removes John McCain's involvement from the story, and the DEA investigation just sort of ends, according to their account. A lot of the burden is placed on heavyweight lawyer John Dowd instead of McCain himself. There's no mention of her securing a passport to hide her drugs on travel, there's no mention of McCain's office strong-arming the DEA to drop the charges. These are elements that Tom Gosinski was willing to put on the record to other journalists. WaPo didn't think they were worthy.

It reads more like a puff piece with a slight edge to it. You certainly learn about Cindy's criminal activities, but not about the abuse of power.

Very depressing.