News Orgs Investigate Possibly Fatal McCain '64 Car Crash

[Kelvin Mace]

Source: Huffington Post

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."

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

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When officials start stonewalling on issues that are obviously in the public interest by claiming they aren't, you know the story has merit. If there was nothing to this story, the records would have been released immediately and the issue would have simply disappeared without ever being reported on. Now that the incident has come to light, the Navy will try and "run out the clock".

Unlike Bush's DUI, if someone died because of McCain's notorious recklessness, this has a DIRECT bearing in the election.

(And personally, I think Bush's DUI was germane, and revealed a deep character flaw, especially his attempts to minimize it).

[norepubsin08]

1. I don't believe Bush's DUI was pertenanet to the election

unless he repeated the mistake..but enough years went by that it didn't happen again. What I do feel was of merit though, was how Bush tried to cover it up..that's where the character flaw comes in!

[izquierdista]

2. He's been dead for 44 years?!

That would explain a lot.

[patrice]

3. "... to retrieve personal physical effects." . . . hmmmmm ??? Shall we start a list of what that

might have been?

[clear eye]

12. But wouldn't the bottle have been smashed? n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. The wreck of his '08 campaign will shove that story to the back pages.

[slackmaster]

5. Thanks for the chuckle

This is the first time I have ever heard Vanity Fair called a "news org".

It's just a slick gossip rag, an upscale version of the National Enquirer, capitalizing on the same tawdry reinforcement of negative female stereotypes.



OTOH the story "Confessions of a Naked Sushi Model" could be Pulitzer Prize material.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/style/2008/10/naked-sushi.html

[stillcool]

13. Isn't it funny that magazines..

are now sources for news, and tv news is now the source for gossip? I like many of the contributors that have written expose's in Vanity Fair. I like the New Yorker too. Crazy.

[not fooled]

14. "Naked Sushi Models"

The name of my new all-girl rock band.

:P

[KansDem]

6. Road rage?

Isn't McCain known for his volatile temper...?

[GardeningGal]

7. I'm more suspicious of driving under the influence and the Navy

covered it up. Especially since his father was an admiral.

[skooooo]

8. October surprise!

:bounce:

[ailsagirl]

9. Ah, so he and Laura have that in common...

[Kelvin Mace]

10. Why was this moved from LBN?

It is LBN, it is from a reliable source, and it is already posted under this topic.

[Native]

11. Link to PDF of Complaint:

http://www.courthousenews.com/2008/10/20/McCainAccident.pdf