{"id":196109,"date":"2008-05-23T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/23\/mccain-going-to-extreme-lengths-to-conceal-medical-history\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T21:32:00","slug":"mccain-going-to-extreme-lengths-to-conceal-medical-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/23\/mccain-going-to-extreme-lengths-to-conceal-medical-history\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain Going to Extreme Lengths to Conceal Medical History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The campaign just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-blog.com\/swampland\/2008\/05\/controlling_the_mccain_medical.html\">made McCain&#8217;s medical records available<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To a limited number of reporter.<\/li>\n<li>Does not include earlier records, which might detail the physical and psychological consequences of his captivity in Vietnam.<\/li>\n<li>It is being done on a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Friday<\/span>, and not just any Friday, but one <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">before a 3 day weekend<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>The reporters get <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">3 hours<\/span> to review <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">400+ pages<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>They are not allowed to make copies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If I had something to conceal, and knew that I had to release something, this is how I would do it.  If you have a problem, even seemingly innocuous records can show a red flag, but if you have non-medical political reporters who have about 90 seconds to review a page, those flags get missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The campaign just made McCain&#8217;s medical records available: To a limited number of reporter. Does not include earlier records, which might detail the physical and psychological consequences of his captivity in Vietnam. It is being done on a Friday, and not just any Friday, but one before a 3 day weekend. The reporters get 3 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1198,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-health","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}