This is why we don't say his name.
Note in bold DIA white hats battling McStain. Sound familiar?
Old news but perhaps relevant again.
One of the sharpest critics of the Pentagonâs performance was an insider, Air Force Lt. Gen. Eugene Tighe, who headed the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) during the 1970s. He openly challenged the Pentagonâs position that no live prisoners existed, saying that the evidence proved otherwise. McCain was a bitter opponent of Tighe, who was eventually pushed into retirement.
Included in the evidence that McCain and his government allies suppressed or sought to discredit is a transcript of a senior North Vietnamese generalâs 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 warâs end as leverage to ensure getting war reparations from Washington.
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McCain has insisted again and again that all the evidenceâdocuments, witnesses, satellite photos, two Pentagon chiefsâ sworn testimony, aborted rescue missions, ransom offers apparently scornedâhas been woven together by unscrupulous deceivers to create an insidious and unpatriotic myth. He calls it the âbizarre rantings of the MIA hobbyists.â He has regularly vilified those who keep trying to pry out classified documents as âhoaxers,â âcharlatans,â âconspiracy theorists,â and âdime-store Rambos.â
Some of McCainâs fellow captives at Hoa Lo prison in Hanoi didnât share his views about prisoners left behind. Before he died of leukemia in 1999, retired Col. Ted Guy, a highly admired POW and one of the most dogged resisters in the camps, wrote an angry open letter to the senator in an MIA newsletterâa response to McCainâs stream of insults hurled at MIA activists. Guy wrote, âJohn, does this [the insults] include Senator Bob Smith [a New Hampshire Republican and activist on POW issues] and other concerned elected officials? Does this include the families of the missing where there is overwhelming evidence that their loved ones were âlast known aliveâ? Does this include some of your fellow POWs?â
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/mccain-and-the-pow-cover-up/