John McCain has had a long career. And that career has been stained by one awful mess after another. Whether its his skin saving leak to reporters during the Keating five corruption scandal, or the now obvious boost he gave to Barak Obama’s Presidential bid. Peering behind the truth of McCain’s media facade as a war hero while going to great political lengths to hide all of the information needed by now countless American families to discover the truth in what pulitzer prize winning Author Sydney H. Schanberg described in a 2008 issue of The Nation as “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.” Those documents reveal that possibly hundreds of POWs were not returned after the signing of the January 1973 peace treaty was signed. Senator John McCain spent his time at the Hỏa Lò Prison, aka Hanoi Hilton, staring at deaths door until his status as a POW was upgraded by the North Vietnamese because McCain’s Father was a top admiral. Hanoi released 591 detainees and John McCain was one of them. In 1991, McCain was appointed as chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs due to the fact that internal Pentagon whistleblowers had been complaining that significant information was being withheld regarding the POWs. McCain would use this committee to cover up the truth until today. Following a pattern constructed by theWhite House,CIA, Pentagon Chief, and National Security Advisor since Dick Nixon took office. Sydney H. Schanberg continues Included in the evidence that McCain and his government allies suppressed or sought to discredit is a transcript of a senior North Vietnamese general’s briefing of the Hanoi politburo, discovered in Soviet archives by an American scholar in 1993. The briefing took place only four months before the 1973 peace accords. The general, Tran Van Quang, told the politburo members that Hanoi was holding 1,205 American prisoners but would keep many of them at war’s end as leverage to ensure getting war reparations from Washington. There is no telling how many POW’s died waiting for our leaders to bargain them out of those nightmarish conditions. True unknown soldiers that may even be there today. - Watch now