The first Native woman to serve as U.S. Attorney has a "tremendous amount of respect" for Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) but declined to comment about Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois).

U.S. Attorney Diane Humetewa, a member of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona, worked for McCain during his two terms as chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. "It becomes a family of sorts," she said in an interview with The East Valley Tribune . "So it doesn't matter if you're gone from the staff three years, five years or 10 years, you're going to run into the staff and you have that sort of common bond."

When asked about McCain's presidential opponent, Humetewa .didn't have much to offer. I don't want to answer that. I'm not sure . . . I don't have to answer it, quite frankly," she said.

Humetewa was sworn into her post last December.

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