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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: Where Was Their Outrage When... [View all]dougolat
(716 posts)It shielded him and the other POWs from pending prosecution for aiding the enemy. In McCain's case there was something about 32 propaganda tapes, some of which were broadcast to Americans in Viet Nam.
The Pentagon brass thought him a hero when he shielded them from a lot of work and embarrassment in '92 in the Senate Select Committee on MIA-POW Affairs hearings by personally blocking the bill passed in the House, for access to information on Korean war and Viet Nam War MIA-POWs. (who had officially been considered dead after one year, and denying evidence to the contrary)(see the book "Perfidy - the Government cabal that knowingly abandoned our prisoners of war" by Sgt. Major John Holland and father Patric Bascio) (or the other book "An Enormous Crime - the difinitive account of American POWs abandoned in Southeast Asia" by US Rep. Bill Hendon and Elizabeth Stewart)