John McCain was my commanding officer during my stint in a training squadron back in 1976...while I respect his service and sacrifice of both time and health, I cannot support him for his part in getting the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform passed.
Oddly, the squadron I ended up going to after training was VA-46, the squadron McCain was in when his A-4 was hit by that Zuni on the Forrestal. Ironic.
The War Secrets Sen. John McCain Hides
But there was one subject that was off-limits, a subject the Arizona senator almost never brings up and has never been open about -- his long-time opposition to releasing documents and information about American prisoners of war in Vietnam and the missing in action who have still not been accounted for. Since McCain himself, a downed Navy pilot, was a prisoner in Hanoi for 5 1/2 years, his staunch resistance to laying open the POW/MIA records has baffled colleagues and others who have followed his career. Critics say his anti-disclosure campaign, in close cooperation with the Pentagon and the intelligence community, has been successful. Literally thousands of documents that would otherwise have been declassified long ago have been legislated into secrecy.