Naomi Wolf attacks McCain for giving enemies info
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by Jill Zuckman
Naomi Wolf, the woman who once advised Vice President Al Gore to act more like an alpha male and wear earth toned clothing, is going after Sen. http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3303, the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
Wolf, who is backing Sen. Barack Obama for president, went on MSNBC today and complained that the media is not asking McCain the tough questions.
“They are not even saying to McCain, you were tortured, you were held prisoner, you gave information under duress in enemy hands,” said Wolf, a well-known feminist writer. “And you allowed them to create loopholes in the Military Commissions Act that you passed in 2006. What happened with that?”
McCain was a prisoner of war during Vietnam, held by the North http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2804 for five and a half years. During that time, he was badly beaten and repeatedly tortured. Saturday marks the 35th anniversary of McCain’s release from prison. He was later awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart and the Distinguished Flying Cross.Although Wolf alleged that McCain “gave information” to his Communist captors, she did not specify what that was.
When asked for a list of members of his squadron, for example, McCain provided his interrogators with the names of the Green Bay Packers offensive line.
In another instance, after four days of constant beatings, McCain tried to kill himself rather than give in. A guard stopped him, and McCain finally agreed to sign a confession, something for which he has said that he never forgave himself for doing.
“I am a black criminal and I have performed the deeds of an air pirate,” he wrote. “I almost died and the Vietnamese people saved my life, thanks to the doctors.”
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