John wrote this in March of 2007:

If you or I knowingly funneled $1.7 million to one of the worst, and best known, terrorist organizations in the world, we’d be sent to Guantanamo permanently. But when it’s the senior management of Chiquita Banana, the Bush administration gives them a fine.

It probably also helps that one of those senior managers is a major fundraiser for the GOP — and John McCain.

So, while John McCain is in Colombia today (with Joe Lieberman) to burnish his foreign policy cred, maybe he can take a minute to explain why one of his top supporters was funding a terror group in that country. Now, we all know that the traditional media types would never ask John McCain hard questions about a subject like this. They might not get the cool seats on the new plane. But, Huffington Post’s Nico Pitney will: