The McCain Patch Dianne L. Ray Rolling Thunder XIII		Many Vietnam veterans and former POWs have fumed at McCain for keeping documents and information about American POW/MIAs in Vietnam sealed up. McCain, a downed Navy pilot, was a prisoner in Hanoi for 5 1/2 years. Critics say his anti-disclosure campaign, in cooperation with the Pentagon and the intelligence community, has been successful. Thousands of documents that would otherwise have been declassified have been legislated into secrecy. For example, Pentagon debriefings of returned Vietnam POWs are now classified and closed to the public under a statute enacted in the 1990s with McCain's backing. He says this is to protect the privacy of former POWs and gives it as his reason for not making public his own debriefing. From APBNews.com