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Title: McCain and the POW Cover-Up
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URL Source: http://www.theamericanconservative. ... s/mccain-and-the-pow-cover-up/
Published: Jul 1, 2010
Author: Sydney Schanberg
Post Date: 2017-07-18 19:39:35 by Ada
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The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam. Eighteen months ago, TAC publisher Ron Unz discovered an astonishing account of the role the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, had played in suppressing information about what happened to American soldiers missing in action in Vietnam. Below, we present in full Sydney Schanberg’s explosive story. * * * John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books. Almost as striking is the manner in which the mainstream press has shied from reporting the POW story and McCain’s role in it, even as the Republican Party has made McCain’s military service the focus of his presidential campaign. Reporters who had covered the Vietnam War turned their heads and walked in other directions. McCain doesn’t talk about the missing men, and the press never asks him about them. The sum of the secrets McCain has sought to hide is not small. There exists a telling mass of official documents, radio intercepts, witness depositions, satellite photos of rescue symbols that pilots were trained to use, electronic messages from the ground containing the individual code numbers given to airmen, a rescue mission by a special forces unit that was aborted twice by Washington—and even sworn testimony by two Defense secretaries that “men were left behind.” This imposing body of evidence suggests that a large number—the documents indicate probably hundreds—of the U.S. prisoners held by Vietnam were not returned when the peace treaty was signed in January 1973 and Hanoi released 591 men, among them Navy combat pilot John S. McCain.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
If there were any justice in this country McCain would be tried for treason and then executed.
They say when he disappeared from Hanoi Hilton, he was in Soviet Union. Don't know this for certain, but it comes with high confidence. Another form of his name would be McStain. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Surprised that Russia hasn't released what they have on him. Really. Putin has opened up all the old KGB files. It is a new policy of openness in the new Russia which is back under the old Russian tri-color flag. When Putin rides around in his car, there are no legions of agents surrounding him and he feels perfectly safe. In this country, they even tried to kill Harry Truman twice. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination 
#2. To: FormerLurker (#1)
McCain
#3. To: BTP Holdings (#2)
They say when he disappeared from Hanoi Hilton, he was in Soviet Union. Don't know this for certain, but it comes with high confidence.
"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination
#4. To: FormerLurker (#3)
Surprised that Russia hasn't released what they have on him.
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