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Lists of links to articles are only interesting if you read the articles.

Here is a good one.

The War Secrets Sen. John McCain Hides

It is a long article and well worth the read. Here is an excerpt.

Another bill gutted in 1996
And then there is the Missing Service Personnel Act, which McCain succeeded in gutting in 1996. A year before, the act had been strengthened, with bipartisan support, to compel the Pentagon to deploy more resources with greater speed to locate and rescue missing men. The measure imposed strict reporting requirements.
McCain amended the heart out of the statute. For example, the 1995 version required a unit commander to report to his theater commander within two days that a person was missing and describe what rescue and recovery efforts were underway. The McCain amendments allowed 10 days to pass before a report had to be made.
In the 1995 act, the theater commander, after receiving the MIA report, would have 14 days to report to his Cabinet secretary in Washington. His report had to "certify" that all necessary actions were being taken and all appropriate assets were being used "to resolve the status of the missing person." This section was stricken from the act, replaced with language that made the Cabinet secretary, not the theater commander, the recipient of the report from the field. All the certification requirements also were stricken. 'Turn commanders into clerks' "This," said a McCain memo, "transfers the bureaucracy involved out of the field to Washington." He argued that the original legislation, if left intact, "would accomplish nothing but create new jobs for lawyers and turn military commanders into clerks."

I’ve read that and I just read it again. I’m not trying to be obstinate, but I side with McCain on the issue. I’ve read about the MIA/POW’s extensively and for decades. I had a personal involvement.

Thanks for all of the links you provided.

The Schanberg article from 2000 is especially damning to McCain.

I wish he had fought as hard to be President in 2008 as he did to keep secret the information about the men left behind in Vietnam as POWs.

It is a long article and well worth the read.

I agree.