McCain staffer denies NY Times account

CNN:

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Dan Schnur, McCain's communication director during his 2000 presidential bid, told CNN on Thursday that he was involved in most high-level situations and that such a problem almost certainly would have "landed on my desk."

Schnur said that he was unaware of any "improper" relationship between the senator and Iseman and that he had never heard of any meeting with staffers and McCain about such a concern.

Schnur, a professor of political science at the University of California-Berkeley, has no connection to the McCain camp now.

Schnur said he spoke on the record with a Times reporter in December and said he knew of no problems surrounding Iseman. He said he was surprised the paper gave no hint of his views.

Schnur acknowledged that he could not be 100 percent sure about the story, but he said he believes his close contact and access would have brought such a situation to his attention.

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What we have here is out of about 150 staffers the people most in a position to know whether the allegations of the story in the NY Times are true say they are not. On the other side we have two people who are too cowardly to speak on the record who claim otherwise. Imagine the cover up the Times is alleging. We have 148 staffers plus the candidate and the lobbiest, i.e. 150 people, who say the Times is wrong. The Times is saying that those 150 people are lying, because it believes the two cowards. Perhaps that explains why they are cowards.