Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain[1] was a 527 Political Action Committee formed in 1997.[2] The group made controversial allegations against John McCain concerning his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. The group was founded by Vietnam veterans Jerry Kiley and Ted Sampley.[2]
In 2000, Sampley called McCain a "Manchurian candidate" on his Web site and said that McCain was an agent of the Vietnamese, and in 2008, Kiley, who says he served in Vietnam for about a year, was behind a flier that claimed McCain was a "Hanoi Hilton songbird" who collaborated with the enemy.
In 2004, Kiley and Sampley formed a similar group targeting another Vietnam veteran, John Kerry, who was running for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States. In May 2018, a Fox News analyst, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, was terminated from the network for reviving the debunked charges against McCain, calling the senator “Songbird John”.[3]
The group made a video in which Bob Smith, former Republican senator from New Hampshire, Bob Dornan, former Republican representative from California, former Congressional staffers and others made various allegations against McCain.[4] The group also disseminated taped excerpts[5] of McCain's questioning of Dolores Alfond of the National Alliance of Families before the United States Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs.
^"Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain Website". Archived from the original on February 15, 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
^ abRoston, Michael (2007-03-09). "Anti-McCain vets ready salvo against Senator's presidential campaign". The Raw Story. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
^“Was Sen. John McCain a ‘Hanoi Hilton Songbird’?”. ‘’Snopes’’, May 11, 2018, Retrieved 5/17/2018
^"Vietnam Veterans Against McCain". YouTube. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
^"John McCain Losing His Cool". YouTube. Retrieved 2008-03-30.
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