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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