> A smaller number of former POWs, MIA families and veterans have suggested there is something especially damning about McCain that the senator wants to keep hidden. Without release of the files, such accusations must be viewed as unsubstantiated speculation. The main reason, however, for seeking these files is to find out if there is any information in the debriefings, or in other MIA documents that McCain and the Pentagon have kept sealed, about how many prisoners were held back by North Vietnam after the Paris peace treaty was signed in January 1973.
Maybe it reveals that McCain wasn’t really a POW for 5 years. Just sayin’ the way he acts about this particular matter does make you think...
Well I checked. Seems he was a POW but so were about 600 others there with him. Here’s an interesting artopicle by a guy who served with him and was also a POW with him: