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Carni (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-28-08 12:03 PMOriginal message McCain involved in fatality accident in 1964? Anyone hear this? 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 paragraphshttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/news-orgs-inve... 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 (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-28-08 12:06 PMResponse to Original message 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.
bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-28-08 12:09 PMResponse to Original message 3. The USS Forrestal fire in 1967? I hear he may have been partially at fault.
cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-28-08 12:15 PMResponse to Reply #3 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.
bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-28-08 12:09 PMResponse to Original message3. The USS Forrestal fire in 1967?I hear he may have been partially at fault.
What a stupid thing to say. Hey, DUMMY -- there is video of the incident. How could John McCain, who was with his plane yards away from the plane that fired the missle, possible be at fault?You can't even BUY this amount of stupidity.
