Last week we posted an explosively controversial article written by Dr. Jack Wheeler about Sen. John McCain, which he had published at his site To The Point News.
The article generated considerable attention and engendered much debate in the blogosphere with many elite bloggers, who doubted Wheeler's claims. Many determined Wheeler's credibility to be suspect after a letter of commendation was written by James Warner, a former POW cell mate of McCain's.
We also had questions about Wheeler's claims, so we invited him on our radio program to discuss it. Jack came on the show last Monday, Feb. 4th, and spent the hour with us, describing what he knew and how he knew it.
Today, Wheeler posted more in the way of explanation of his claims that John McCain is no war hero. It involves a Russian in hiding, Putin, and some U.S. Senators and Representatives who are fearful of coming forward with corroboration. Wheeler also writes about Warner's attempt to defend McCain's honor, despite the Senator's reputation among other Vietnam war veterans:
"He is despised by legions of Vietnam veterans, and particularly the families of MIAs, American POWs or Missing-In-Action never returned by the North Vietnamese Communists. Take a look at the video on YouTube about the disgraceful blocking of the 1992 POW/MIA Senate hearings by McCain, or the voluminous material provided on the Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain website.
He is especially despised by the Swift Boat Vietnam veterans whose ads condemning the phony heroics of John Kerry prevented the nightmare of a Kerry Presidency. When the ads came out in August of 2004, McCain publicly denounced the Swift Boat veterans as "dishonest and dishonorable."
Okay, Jack, right, all well and good, but you may be asking: "What about ‘T'? What about McCain's alleged collaboration with his Vietnamese captors? How can that be squared with Jim Warner's moving description of McCain as his prisonmate?"
First, T is a real person. If you Googled T's real name, you would get hundreds of hits, and clicking on "images" would get you T's picture. Just to reconfirm things, yesterday I asked one of the Members of Congress who has been briefed by T if T was "credible." The answer was: "Oh, very credible. Everything checks out to the best I have been able to determine."
Last night, I had dinner with another Congressman, just the two of us. He said of T: "I have known [T] since the 1990s. This is a very impressive, very competent person who hated the Soviet Union and thus encouraged the CIA-GRU document swap in 1991. I have always found [T] to be impeccably honest. Credible? Absolutely."
Then he added: "You should know that [T] is in semi-seclusion right now. It is extremely dangerous for anyone in Moscow to be associated with Putin's rivals, which [T] has been, or do anything that might cause public attention and draw Putin's wrath."
So, for all those folks who have asked that I disclose my sources for the story of McCain's collaboration - the above three paragraphs is all the corroboration I'm going to provide.
My only observation about Jim's article is that, as an inmate in the Hanoi Hilton, he was in no position to know about the GRU overseeing it, as the Soviets went to great pains to have that be unknown.
I have known about this story, about T, for several years. But there was never any reason to expose it - until now. And I did so not to make a claim, but to provide an example.
An example so shocking that it would be a splash of ice cold water in the faces of those Republicans suffering the delusion that McCain, once he has the nomination for sure and the GOP is stuck with him, won't be torn to shreds by the New York Times and the liberal media."
I don't know if Wheeler's correct about this or not, however his article is interesting and will be widely read. The full article can be read at To The Point News.