McCain involved in fatality accident in 1964? Anyone hear this?

[Carni]

I just received this from a friend apparently it is on Huffington Post.

There is more at the link as I had to trim to 4 paragraphs


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/news-orgs-investigate-pos_n_138449.html


For the past two months, a major American magazine and an allied news
service have been engaged in a legal battle with the United States Navy
over records that they believe show that John McCain once was involved
in an automobile accident that injured or, perhaps, killed another
individual.

Vanity Fair magazine and the National Security News Service claim to
have knowledge "developed from first-hand sources" of a car crash that
involved then-Lt. McCain at the main gate of a Virginia naval base in
1964, according to legal filings. The incident has been largely, if not
entirely, kept from the public. And in documents suing the Navy to
release pertinent information, lawyers for the NS News Service allege
that a cover-up may be at play.

"Plaintiffs have also obtained documents showing that law enforcement
officers were ordered back to the accident scene to retrieve personal
physical effects. The Navy has never publicly acknowledged this
information," one document reads. "This request involves federal
government activity, as it addresses what may be an attempt by the Navy
to protect by concealment the involvement of a former Navy officer,
sitting Senator and Presidential candidate in a serious incident
involving the injury or death of another human being."

The first request for information concerning duty assignment logs to
Portsmouth Naval Hospital -- where McCain was allegedly brought after
the accident -- came in the form of a Freedom of Information Act request
on August 28, 2008. The Navy acknowledged receipt of the request and
advised that it had located the relevant information a few weeks later,
only to deny the FOIA on grounds that it didn't prove an "imminent
threat to the life or physical safety of an individual" or satisfy the
criteria of "a breaking news story of general public interest."

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. There are a couple of threads about this already on DU and I believe it's

a surprise to everyone who has read about it.

[Carni]

2. I should have known it would already be on here!

Well I guess I have wasted band width with a duplicate!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

5. lol! Never enough bandwidth wasted when it comes to articles like this!!!

[bluestateguy]

3. The USS Forrestal fire in 1967?

I hear he may have been partially at fault.

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. Take this from a sailor who's worked the flight deck: You heard wrong.

I know people who were there that day.

McKamikaze's plane was parked TOW. Could not have caused a missile to go off by wet starting his airplane.

[DemoTex]

8. TOW means "tail over water."

For the uninitiated.

[FLyellowdog]

6. Already been debunked.

[DS1]

10. way to not even make it beyond the thread title

:applause:

[Blue Meany]

7. Oops, I thought you were saying that McCain died in 1964

but that's old news. Democrats may send dead people to vote, but only Republicans run them for President.

[Carni]

9. That would be an easy assumption to make!

The man doesn't exactly look too perky does he? LOL