Posted on 10/29/2008 12:34:40 AM PDT by tlb
Last week, Vanity Fair magazine and the National Security News Service filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in federal court seeking records related to a 1964 vehicle accident involving then-Navy Lt. John McCain.
According to the complaint, filed Oct. 16 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, National Security News Service reporter Christopher Law, who is also working with Vanity Fair for this story, requested duty logs from July 24 and 25, 1964 at Portsmouth Naval Hospital. Those logs would indicate whether McCain, now the Republican presidential candidate, was a patient there.
“Plaintiffs and Vanity Fair have developed from first-hand sources information indicating that Lt. McCain was involved in an automobile accident on Hampton Boulevard outside the main gate of the Naval Base at Norfolk, VA in July 1964,” the complaint said.
“Plaintiffs’ investigation has disclosed that responding civilian law enforcement officers recall the accident, that another person was injured, and that a Naval officer dispatched a messenger to take a change of clothing to Lt. McCain at Portsmouth Naval Hospital,” it continued.
According to the Huffington Post, the news groups are looking into whether the other person died of his or her injuries.
The Navy denied Law’s FOIA request on privacy grounds, prompting Law to file the lawsuit.
To play this card this late in the game, I guess speaks loudly that McCain actually is closing in the polls.
Comment posted at the link makes a good point too:
"If the wreck happened on Hampton Blvd. in Norfolk OUTSIDE the base entrance, wouldn't the jurisdiction have been the city's? So, wouldn't one find police reports and Virginian Pilot newspaper articles?"
But Obama was only 3 when this happened so it is irrelevant. Right? s/
Wow this is encouraging.
Nothing says “panic” quite like dragging up something from 41 years ago. lol
If McCain is found to have been in an accident, and suppose he was drunk, and even worse, suppose someone died in the accident, and heaven forbid, he left the scene and didn’t report it until hours later, his career would be finished as a Republican and he would have to become a Democrat to be given a free pass and future political opportunities!!!
Nothing new about this tactic - honestly, you’d think we were dealing with the mob.
Big Deal. McCain has said that when he was in that Navy that he was a Wild One.
Life must make you bitter when you wake and find your husband with another man.
DOH!
I mean 44 years. (My brain saw 1967, not 1964) :S
....how did Vanity Fair hold the hammer while they were nailing themselves to that cross?
Throw in a dead girl and a live boy in the car and Democrats all across the country will push McCain to sure victory.
Once a beard, always a beard.
Fascinating!
The media is NOT interested in learning or teaching us ANYTHING about the Black Obamanation — but are dumpster diving for records 45 years old on McCain and interviewing every Palin hater in Alaska.....
The bias is beyond criminal and approaching TREASON.
The “media” would find a lot more turds if they pushed their faces into Obama’s toilet of life......
Oh brother. The fact they’re asking for hospital records and not police records means Vanity Fair doesn’t have jack.
Police records are public documents, medical records are not. if the civilian police officers responded to the accident, there should be an accident report filed. Go bug the DC Police Department and check their archives. The fact that the Navy keeps its files in better order than the DC city government is no excuse to violate patient confidentiality.
Let’s see how fast the msm will run with this.
Ted drives into a lake. They find a young attractive campaign aid dead in the car and ? He keeps getting elected to senate.
Who’s McCain?
Did someone say accident
Does that mean finally Chapaquitic Teddy Kennedy is exposed
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