Has this been posted? McCain and the POW Cover-up

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/schanberg

By Sydney H. Schanberg

This article appeared in the October 6, 2008 edition of The Nation.
September 17, 2008


Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute; a longer version of this article is available at nationinstitute.org.

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 people would logically imagine to be a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.

Sydney H. Schanberg: The war hero has long sought to bury information about POWs left behind in Vietnam.


Sydney H. Schanberg: A veteran newsman recalls Rupert Murdoch. Despite his promises to protect editorial integrity of the Wall Street Journal, don't expect him to get a soul transplant any time soon.


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 McCain has made his military service and POW history the focus of his presidential campaign. Reporters who had covered the Vietnam War have also turned their heads and walked in other directions. McCain doesn't talk about the missing men, and the press never asks him about them.

attention will inspire the m$m to 'pssst....do something'.

tourists who visiting Vietnam, and they were in the countryside, and they saw in the distance a small group of white men marching in a sort of line, together with a couple of Vietnamese.........one of the white men shouted to the group:

"tell the world about us!"

That is the last time I ever read anything about this.

I wonder if he got into politics because of this or somehow it's related to his working with the government and politics.

"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--
probably hundreds--of the US prisoners held in 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. "