US Senator McCain caught playing phone game at Senate hearing

US Senator John McCain has admitted
playing a game on his iPhone during a
Congressional hearing on Syria.

The Washington Post published a picture
of the senior Republican - an advocate of
military intervention in the Syrian conflict
- playing a poker game.

Mr McCain sarcastically alluded to the
"Scandal!" on Twitter, pointing out the
hearing had been more than three hours
long and adding: "Worst of all I lost!"
But several comments replying to the
post were critical of the senator.

The Washington Post said its
photographer Melina Mara had seen Mr
McCain playing the game during a
committee hearing - and taken a picture.

The US Secretary of State, John Kerry,
and other senior officials urged the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
during Tuesday's hearing that it was time
to act against the Syrian government,
which the US believes was behind a
deadly chemical weapons attack last
month.

"As much as I like to always listen in rapt
attention constantly [to] remarks of my
colleagues over a three-and-a-half-hour
period, occasionally I get a little bored
and so I resorted" to poker, Mr McCain
later told CNN.

"But the worst thing about it is I lost
thousands of dollars in this game," he
said - adding it was only "fake" money.

Mr McCain was a prisoner of war in
Vietnam, and was then elected to the
House of Representatives and later the
Senate, from the state of Arizona.
Building a reputation as a "maverick" for
breaking with his party on issues such as
campaign finance reform and
immigration, he won the Republican
Party nomination for president in 2008
but lost the general election to Barack
Obama.

Culled from BBC.

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