McCain Secrets Need History Channel Airing

Rumors of Early Car Crash, Refusal of Bush Computer Expert to Testify Clouds "Truthiness" of "Straight Talk Express"

OhioNewsBureau

Op-Editude

with John Michael Spinelli

Columbus, Ohio: If turning on the History Channel to learn whether Republican presidential nominee John McCain was involved in a possibly fatal car crash from the early 60s or whether his chief computer expert knows if Republican-built cyber systems are still in place to flip voting records on Election Day is something everyone should do before next Tuesday, join the chorus of inquiring minds who think McCain should talk straight about this incident now so voters who have yet to vote will have more information before they cast their ballot.

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Erratic Route of Straight Talk Express

McCain has kept tight control of his medical records, allowing some but not all reporters to look at them under very strict conditions. The medical records of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, McCain's surprise choice for vice president, have likewise been off limits to the media. The drum beat to learn more about McCain's medial past has now been joined by a new drum beat about whether then-Lt. McCain, stationed at a Virginia military base in 1964, was indeed involved in a car crash that may have killed another person.

The story of an incident in McCain's history that is being shielded from public scrutiny is the center of this report by Sam Stein at The Huffington Post, which says Vanity Fair magazine and the National Security News Service claim to have knowledge "developed from first-hand sources," based on legal filings, of a car crash that involved McCain at the main gate of his Virginia military base. Largely, if not entirely, kept from the public so far, documents suing the Navy to release pertinent information by lawyers for the NS News Service allege that a cover-up may be at play.

It behooves McCain, who challenged the LA Times Wednesdayto release video information provided to them by a private source that allegedly shows Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee for president, talking about his relationship with a Palestinian activist, to come clean about this incident from his past that is being kept secret by Navy authorities. Reports released today also show that McCain, then chairman of a Republican institute, also gave about $500,000 in loans or grants to the same Palestinian he is tarring Obama of having talked to.

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." [Huffington Post]

McCain Should Direct Airing of Mike Connell Show on His History Channel

Selectively turning on and off the History Channel, depending on whose history is in question, has been a favorite campaign tactic of McCain, Palin and their campaign operatives. When it suits them, they dredge up the history of William Ayers, a 60s radical who engaged in terrorist activities when Obama was only 8-years of age and who along with other prominent and respected community leaders served on a Chicago non-profit board with Mr. Obama, who by then was a fully formed adult actively engaged in his community. McCain and Palin don't want to turn on the History Channel when it comes to their past, which shows both of them complicit in the very same actions and accusations they are now accusing Obama of, like cavorting with and lobbying for shamed and prosecuted money managers like William Keating of the so-called "Keating Five" or raising taxes on small-town Alaskans for a sports arena or taxing the profits of Big Oil so they could be spread around to every man, woman and child in Alaska.

McCain also needs to talk straight about Mike Connell, one of his top computer and Internet operatives, who has been a trust IT handyman for the Bush family and who left the White House operation of President George W. Bush to join the McCain camp. Connell, a resident of Ohio, has been linked over the years to many efforts by Republican front groups and Republican office holders, like Jeb Bush when he was governor of Florida. Connell is now the subject of a subpoena issued by Ohio plaintiff attorneys in a live lawsuit that says he and other professional cohorts helped build cyber systems of Ohio, and maybe other states, that were rigged to flip elections to Republican candidates like President Bush in 2004.

Columbus attorneys representing Connell have said their client would be unable, before the election, to testify on what he knows about the architecture of computer networks that he and others worked on in contractual services with high office holders like former Republican Ohio secretary of state Ken Blackwell.

If McCain continues to believe that the LA Times should disclose History Channel information about Obama's past acquaintances, he should follow his own advice and allow further open scrutiny of his medical records, his time as a young Lieutenant in Virginia and the fatal car crash he is alleged to have been in and direct Connell, his campaign staffer, to tell what he knows now about what will happen on Election Day if the vote is within the margin of error.

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