Sydney H. Schanberg is the editor of APBnews.com’s investigative unit. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his 1975 coverage of political and social chaos in Cambodia. His news reports and a best-selling book about his experiences in Southeast Asia became the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields.



The War Secrets Sen. John McCain Hides
Former POW Fights Public Access to POW/MIA Files
April 25, 2000 By Sydney Schanberg




NEW YORK (APBnews.com) — The voters who were drawn to John S. McCain in his run

for the Republican presidential nomination this year often cited, as the core of

his appeal, his openness and blunt candor and willingness to admit past lapses

and release documents that other senators often hold back. These qualities also

seemed to endear McCain to the campaign press corps, many of whom wrote about

how refreshing it was to travel on the McCain campaign bus, “The Straight Talk

Express,” and observe a maverick speaking his mind rather than a traditional

candidate given to obfuscation and spin.



But there was one subject that was off-limits, a subject the Arizona senator

almost never brings up and has never been open about — his long-time opposition

to releasing documents and information about American prisoners of war in

Vietnam and the missing in action who have still not been accounted for. Since

McCain himself, a downed Navy pilot, was a prisoner in Hanoi for 5 1/2 years,

[b]his staunch resistance to laying open the POW/MIA records has baffled colleagues

and others who have followed his career. Critics say his anti-disclosure

campaign, in close cooperation with the Pentagon and the intelligence community,

has been successful. Literally thousands of documents that would otherwise have

been declassified long ago have been legislated into secrecy.


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Call for openness and disclosure



During the campaign, McCain, who is chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee,

had to address a controversy over queries he had made to the Commerce Department

on behalf of a major campaign contributor. To deal with the press interest, he

announced he was releasing all of his correspondence with the Commerce

Department, not just the letters involving the one case. In addition, to show

his full commitment to openness and disclosure, he called on every other

government agency to release his communications with them. On Jan. 9 on the CBS

program Face the Nation, he announced: “Today, we are asking the federal

government to release all correspondence that I’ve had with every government

agency.”



McCain’s staff has acknowledged that this request includes the Pentagon. But the

Pentagon says it needs an official document from McCain designating a surrogate

before it can show his debriefing report to anyone else. APBnews.com has

repeatedly asked the senator for this waiver. He does not respond.

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http://www.aiipowmia.com/sea/schanberg_mccain.html

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What is John McCain hiding? Yeah sure, he could be hiding the champagne and cigar story.

We also know that McCain has the same daddy illness that W. has - resentful of daddy, feeling unloved, ignored, not respected by daddy, deserted by daddy: and when daddy finally shows, all he does is criticize and demean, McJunior. So McJunior has the "I'll show him attitude for leaving me with mommy all the time." Turns into the rebel without a cause escuse we hear a lot about. (Cool Hand Luke)

Once again, what is McJunior hiding? And is this the driving force for him having sold out to the PTB? (lobbied up to his eyeballs)

I think he was tortured brutally, gave in, got the deluxe treatment, and the one true thing in the real biography of McCain is the daddy complex aspect.

But we will not know anything until we kick out the ones who still protect AND destroy all the truth - information - intel - secrets. (we the people can't handle the truth) 'nother escuse.

Truth is becoming rarer and rarer each minute we continue to let the PTB (who took over somewhere around the time Kennedy was killed - and, btw, emanates out of Texas) rule.