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Senator McCain has successfully passed legislation to lock up the U.S. records on our prisoners of war and MIA's from the Vietnam War, thus preventing public access to the 32 propaganda tapes he made for the Vietnamese while a prisoner and other reports on his behavior there by his fellow prisoners.
Undoubtedly, Vietnam still has copies of those propaganda tapes. Since the Soviet Union was also participating in the interrogation of U.S.prisoners of war, it is highly likely that Russia, now in possession of the USSR's files, also has copies of the damaging tapes.
Reports from anti-McCain POW organizations suggest that McCain was also filmed receiving special favorable treatment not accorded to other prisoners, including the provision of sexual companions to the notoriously randy airman.
Such films, likely still in the hands of two foreign governments, makes McCain a prime target for blackmail by those governments. Perhaps, given McCain's energetic efforts to open up trade with Vietnam, these tapes have already served that purpose. High officials in the Pentagon may also have access to these tapes, which could be used against McCain.
Whether or not McCain was truly tortured to force him to make these tapes, as long as they are kept secret they represent a potential blackmail tool, and thus a threat to the national security of the nation. Do we want a president who can so easily be blackmailed?
The only way to protect against blackmail is for all McCain's military records, and those of his fellow POW's, to be disclosed and fully investigated by the public press.
Whether or not McCain is "at fault" for these films is besides the point, their mere hidden existence represents a serious danger to our national security if he becomes president of the United States.
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