RINO Senator John McCain will always be remembered as being a traitor to conservatism, as well as his failed presidential campaign, but newly discovered secrets about his past are continuing to tarnish his legacy.
According to multiple sources, Senator John McCain crippled efforts to bring American prisoners of war home from Vietnam, and even went as far as trying to ‘debunk’ their existence.
During his career in the Senate, McCain quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that made sure that revealing information about POWs in Vietnam was 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,” the American Conservative reported.
Senator McCain was also instrumental amending the Missing Service Personnel Act.
The legislation had been strengthened by POW advocates in 1995, adding criminal penalties.
“Any government official who knowingly and willfully withholds from the file of a missing person any information relating to the disappearance or whereabouts and status of a missing person shall be fined as provided in Title 18 or imprisoned not more than one year or both,” the law stated.
Just one year later, during a closed House-Senate conference discussing unrelated military legislation, McCain added a crippling amendment to the Missing Service Personnel Act, which stripped out the criminal penalties and the ability to enforce the act. McCain’s actions, which were reportedly at the behest of the Pentagon, reduced the “obligations of commanders in the field to speedily search for missing men and to report the incidents to the Pentagon,” according to reporting from the American Conservative.
In arguing to amend the legislation, John McCain claimed that the existence of the criminal penalties would have made it impossible for the Pentagon to find people willing to work on POW/MIA related matters.
“By eviscerating the law, McCain gave his stamp of approval to the government policy of debunking the existence of live POWs,” the American Conservative concluded.
