Confused about the McCain-Iseman affair?

Not to worry, CJR's Clint Hendler is on the case:

Here, we have the Times—weakly, I’d say—implying that sort of garden-variety political-corruption causation between three McCain actions and Iseman. [...] the Paxson letters, strikes me as quite different—especially since we now know how seriously his aides took the developing scandal at the time.

Read the whole breakdown here.