> “’m not sure why everything was classified, “
C’mon now. You can be fairly sure it was classified to cover up the truth about things involving McCain and others that they did not want to see the light of day. There is absolutely no technological or security risk in releasing the records from 50 years ago unless there were war crime material that would implicate the US Government or persons that are still alive today. And even then they could be redacted to avoid legal liability.
McCain was in the party that went to Hanoi to gather records the Vietnamese had on POWs including himself. He knows what the records say. He had to have had to turn them over to Pentagon bureaucrats and an order was obtained to have them sealed. Senator Bob Smith said the Pentagon bureaucrats could be prosecuted for their handling of POW and MIA matters and it lends plausibility as to why the records are classified.
A recent witness said the declassification of those records has now been delayed indefinitely, in other words forever. That can be reversed but it will take a President that is willing to get to the bottom of it.
Hostage, I haven’t studied the reasons for the classifications. What you say does make sense, but I haven’t seen other reasoned objections, so I don’t want to state it was McCain related.
It may be. I don’t have an axe to grind on it either way.
Bob Smith is the guy that I have seen marvel at the classifications. He was the one that said he expected to seen everything dumped, and then was shocked how little was.
He also said he knew the government had more information than it forked over.
McCain has been sitting and chairing important committees for decades. He has been an evil influence in Washington, D. C.