Senator McCain's transition chief was a lobbyist for Saddam Hussein

Senator McCain's transition chief was a lobbyist for Saddam Hussein.

I'll say it again.

William Timmons, whom Senator McCain has hired to lead the presidential transition team after he wins the election, was a lobbyist for Saddam Hussein, and two of his colleagues in the effort "were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government" (HuffPost):

In early 1992, [Samir] Vincent joined together with John Venners, then a public relations consultant, and William Timmons, a Washington lobbyist, to pursue the purchase and sale of Iraqi oil and the exploration by a consortium of companies of the Majnoon oil field in Iraq. The business plan, intended as a possible alternative to a United Nations oil-for-food program, envisaged that the United Nations would receive the bulk of the profit form sales of Iraqi crude oil from this field. Mr. Vincent suggested that sanctions against Iraq would be lifted imminently and that the Iraqi government might grant a long-term concession to an American oil company.