UNPROVEN REPORTS ON THE USS JOHN MCCAIN FIASCO: AMERICAN JOURNALISM IS DEAD

THESE TWO PHOTOS SHOW WHY THE USS JOHN S. MCCAIN WAS IN JAPAN FOR THE PAST 2 YEARS, A COLLISION WITH ANOTHER VESSEL THAT TOOK THE LIVES OF TEN U.S. SAILORS.

NOT ONE MSM HAS SUGGESTED A REQUEST FOR COVERING COULD HAVE BEEN TO SPARE SURVIVING FAMILY MEMBERS FURTHER GRIEF BY SHOWING PHOTOS OF IT STILL IN REPAIRS, OR THAT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN BECAUSE THE 'MCCAIN', ALONG WITH 24 OTHER SHIPS, WAS CONTAMINATED BY RADIATION FROM THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR 'ACCIDENT' AND THAT THE REQUEST MIGHT HAVE BEEN MADE TO PREVENT SHINZO ABE AND OTHERS FROM BEING REMINDED OF THE LAWSUITS HUNDREDS OF NAVAL PERSONNEL HAVE FILED AGAINST JAPAN'S TEPCO, AND OF THE PREVENTABLE MELTDOWNS THAT CONTINUE TO CONTAMINATE OUR ENTIRE PLANET.
ABE IS DETERMINED TO HAVE HIS 2020 OLYMPICS AT ANY COST. 

NOT SHOWING THE 'MCCAIN' COULD HAVE HELPED ABE "SAVE FACE". 

THIS VESSEL WAS NOT NAMED FOR THE LATE SENATOR MCCAIN.

The USS John S. McCain was initially named after the late Senator McCain’s father and grandfather, who were both Navy admirals.

In 2018, the Navy added John McCain III to the official namesake of the guided missile destroyer.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA HAS YET TO NAME THE SOURCE OF THIS ALLEGATION THAT "SOMEBODY" REQUESTED OR ORDERED THE MCCAIN BE KEPT OUT OF SIGHT.

THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF IT, SO WHO ELSE COULD HAVE DONE IT?

Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan asked his chief of staff to find out what happened. On Sunday he told reporters that after reviewing the facts, he did not plan to call for an inspector general investigation into the incident.

He said his chief of staff did not have prior knowledge of the White House directive and reiterated that a search had not found any emails to his staff about it.

President Trump said on Wednesday he had not been aware of the request.  
WHAT NONE IN THE MEDIA HAVE MADE CLEAR IS WHO "IN THE WHITE HOUSE", COULD HAVE GIVEN SUCH AN ORDER, OR WHO HAD THE AUTHORITY TO EVEN MAKE SUCH A REQUEST.

I FOUND ONE NEWS ARTICLE BY REUTERS THAT STATES WHAT BRANCH OF "THE WHITE HOUSE" ALLEGEDLY DID THIS AND IT WAS NOT TRUMP AND IT WAS NOT THE TOP DOGS IN THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT.

"THE WHITE HOUSE MILITARY OFFICE directed the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet to minimize the visibility of the USS John S. McCain, a warship bearing the name of Trump’s former political rival, during a speech by the president in Japan last week."
  
WHY KEEP REPEATING THAT "THE WHITE HOUSE REQUESTED" SUCH A LUDICROUS THING AND NEVER OFFER THE FACT THAT IT WAS NOT TRUMP AND NOT THE D.O.D.? 

THE IDIOTIC PHRASE "THE WHITE HOUSE" IS USED SIMPLY TO TRASH TRUMP, PERIOD, THE END.

DOES MAINSTREAM MEDIA (MSM) REALLY THINK TRUMP GIVES A DAMN WHERE THAT SHIP IS OR DO THEY THINK THAT AMERICANS STILL BELIEVE THEIR "UNNAMED SOURCES" RUSE ON STORIES LIKE THIS?
THAT OLD JIG IS UP!

IT MIGHT ALSO HELP THE MSM TO REALIZE THAT AT LEAST HALF OF AMERICA NEVER DID AND DOESN'T NOW SEE MCCAIN AS THE "WAR HERO" NOR THE "GREAT POLITICIAN" THEY KEEP TRYING TO MAKE HIM SEEM.
HE WAS A VERY POOR MILITARY OFFICER WHO MADE MORE MISTAKES THAN MOST AND WHO, ACCORDING TO MANY, BETRAYED HIS COMRADES IN ARMS AND AMERICA AFTER HE WAS CAPTURED.

HE WAS A SMALL ANGRY MAN, A VINDICTIVE FAILURE AT MANY THINGS, A BASE BOOR WHO PUBLICLY CALLED HIS WIFE THE "C-WORD" AND FOAMED AT THE MOUTH QUITE OFTEN IN PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF RAGE.

AS ONE HARSH ARTICLE STATED: "McCain had 25 years in Congress to help veterans, yet nearly all he's done is talk about his own experiences as a prisoner of war — and push the country to go to war again."

NO MENTION IS MADE OF HIS INTERVIEW WITH MIKE WALLACE ON '60 MINUTES'. 
HE PROPOSED TO HIS 2ND WIFE WHILE STILL MARRIED TO HIS FIRST. 

FEW IN CONGRESS LIKED THE MAN. HE ACCOMPLISHED VERY LITTLE.

THERE WAS THE KEATING FIVE SCANDAL HE SOMEHOW ESCAPED. 

THERE WAS MCCAIN'S ROLE IN THE POW/MIA COVER-UP SCANDAL.
IN LIFE, HE WAS NOT MUCH, AND THE PRESS CANNOT REMAKE HIM IN DEATH. THEY MERELY USE HIM AS A PROPAGANDA TOOL.

THE PRESS MERELY USES MCCAIN AND OTHERS TO STIR UP THE FAR LEFT LIBERALS AGAINST TRUMP.

ARE THERE ANY REAL JOURNALISTS LEFT IN AMERICA, OR IS EVERY NEWS AGENCY BEING RUN BY EITHER PETULANT CHILDREN, STILL ANGRY BECAUSE HILLARY LOST, OR SOLD-OUT WHORES TO WHOMEVER OWNS THEM?

NOT ONE NEWS AGENCY HAS MENTIONED THE POSSIBILITY THAT ANYONE WHO MIGHT HAVE REQUESTED THE SHIP BE "HIDDEN" DID SO BECAUSE OF THE ONGOING LAWSUITS BROUGHT BY U.S. SAILORS OVER THE FUKUSHIMA ACCIDENT.
SHOWING THE SHIP ON JAPANESE TELEVISION MIGHT HAVE INCITED SOME JAPANESE TO IMAGINE IT AS A 'SLIGHT', A SLAP TO OLD SHINZO ABE'S FACE ON INTERNATIONALLY TELEVISED COVERAGE OF TRUMP'S 'TRADE VISIT'.

In March 2011, in company with the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, the USS McCain was deployed off northeastern Honshu, Japan to assist with relief efforts after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake.
During that time, the ship may have been exposed to leaking radiation from the Fukushima I nuclear accidents.

U.S. sailors are STILL dying from radiation poisoning and trying to sue Japan's TEPCO for that incident. 

Actually, "16 US Ships That Aided Japan Still Contaminated With Radiation":
"The low levels of radioactivity that remain are in normally inaccessible areas that are controlled in accordance with stringent procedures," the Navy said in an email to Stars and Stripes. "Work in these areas occurs mainly during major maintenance availabilities and requires workers to follow strict safety procedures.
Eight USS Ronald Reagan sailors, claiming a host of medical conditions they say are related to radiation exposure, filed suit in 2012 against the nuclear plant's operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Co.
In 2014 the list of sailors who had joined the lawsuit had grown to 370.

The suits assert that TEPCO lied, coaxing the Navy closer to the plant even though it knew the situation was dire."  Dr. Shinzo Kimura -- a professor at Dokkyo Medical University in Japan who has studied radiation exposure from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Chernobyl and, now, Fukushima -- has said it wasn't too early for sailors to show symptoms of exposure-related conditions. Doctors have seen conditions in children living near the plant that surfaced earlier than would normally be expected.

In total 130 aircraft, 12,510 personnel and over 16 American naval ships took part in Operation Tomodachi, including USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), USS Chancellorsville (CG-62), USS Cowpens (CG-63), USS Shiloh (CG-67), USS John S. McCain (DDG-56), USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62), USS Stethem (DDG-63), USS McCampbell (DDG-85), USS Preble (DDG-88), USS Mustin (DDG-89), USS Germantown (LSD-42), USS Tortuga (LSD-46), USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49), USS Essex (LHD-2), USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19), USNS Safeguard (T-ARS-50)

THREE former Japanese prime ministers have stated repeatedly that Abe should NOT hold the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo because of the hazards to attendees of radiation exposure.
Abe's administration had a gag order placed on the press about all that and threatened prison for any journalists who wrote about it.

It would be logical for someone to imagine that Abe would be offended by anything that brought back memories of Fukushima radiation...especially since many in Japan have long sought an end to U.S. military presence there.

They remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Many there also remember all the charges against 7th Fleet Naval personnel for drug-dealing in Japan, for rape of Japanese women and for murder of Japanese citizens.
There has been a LOT of that for a long, long time.

The Associated Press originally sought the records for U.S. military personnel stationed in Japan after attacks against Japanese women raised political tensions there.

The Associated Press obtained more than 1,000 summaries of sex-crime cases involving U.S. military personnel stationed in Japan, following Freedom of Information Act requests filed with the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and NCIS.
The NCIS documents show that out of 473 Marines and sailors accused of sex offenses, 179 were given some punishment, and 68 went to prison. 
In 1995, an uproar over the rape of a 12-year-old girl by three U.S. servicemen on Okinawa triggered massive protests and led to the relocation of an air base to a less densely populated part of the island.

US military personnel have committed over 5,800 crimes on Japan's Okinawa Islands since the territory was returned to Japan in 1972, according to police statistics there. Mass protests are regularly staged by the island’s inhabitants. 
JAPAN WANTS AMERICAN FORCES OUT OF JAPAN AND ABE WANTS NO MENTION OF FUKUSHIMA RADIATION. 

COULD "SOMEONE IN THE WHITE HOUSE" HAVE WANTED TO AVOID SHOWING THE 'MCCAIN' BECAUSE OF THOSE TEN SAILORS KILLED ABOARD IT DURING A 2017 PREVENTABLE COLLISION, PERHAPS THINKING SURVIVING RELATIVES WOULD BE UNNECESSARILY GRIEVED BY MEDIA REHASHING OF THOSE SAD EVENTS?
THAT'S WHY THE MCCAIN IS STILL IN JAPAN, UNDERGOING REPAIRS, AFTER ALL.

THE COMMANDER AND OTHER OFFICERS ON THAT SHIP HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH CRIMES AND NEGLIGENCE.

At 5:24 a.m. on 21 August 2017, the USS McCain was involved in a collision with the Liberian-flagged 'Alnic MC' off the coast of Singapore and Malaysia, east of the Strait of Malacca.

Ten U.S. Navy sailors needlessly died as a result.

The McCain collision was the fourth accident the Pacific fleet had in 2017.
In January, the cruiser 'Antietam' ran aground in Tokyo Bay, and in May, another cruiser, 'Lake Champlain', crashed into a Korean fishing boat in the Sea of Japan.

RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION INTO COLLISION:

At no point did either ship sound a warning signal of five short blasts on the whistle (Colregs rule 34(d)) or attempt to contact the other via VHF radio.

 The report describes the actions taken in the aftermath of the collision.
On page 49 it states that the external lights were changed to "red over red" ("vessel not under command"), but the timeline on page 65 claims that this was done at 05:22, at least a minute before the collision.

The report criticizes John S. McCain under two headings: "Seamanship and Navigation" and "Leadership and Culture".
The former heading mentions that a higher state of readiness was required in congested waters, that the "Sea and Anchor" detail should have been set earlier and that both vessels failed to sound the required signals or use VHF.

The latter heading contains criticisms about the ship's organization. Specifically the CO did not set the Sea and Anchor watch, watch-standers had not attended the navigation brief, leadership failed to assign sufficient experienced officers, the CO issued unplanned orders which were not communicated to the watch officers, who in turn failed to provide input and backup to the CO. 

"The collision between USS John S. McCain and Alnic MC was also avoidable and resulted primarily from complacency, over-confidence and lack of procedural compliance. A major contributing factor to the collision was sub-standard level of knowledge regarding the operation of the ship control console. In particular, McCain’s commanding officer disregarded recommendations from his executive officer, navigator and senior watch officer to set sea and anchor watch teams in a timely fashion to ensure the safe and effective operation of the ship. With regard to procedures, no one on the Bridge watch team, to include the commanding officer and executive officer, were properly trained on how to correctly operate the ship control console during a steering casualty."

In October, 2011, the U.S. Navy fired the McCain’s top two officers, calling the warship’s deadly August collision with an oil tanker “preventable.”

Cmdr. Alfredo J. Sanchez, the McCain’s commander, and Cmdr. Jessie L. Sanchez, its executive officer, were relieved of their duties and reassigned, Navy officials announced in a statement. Both were fired because of a lack of confidence, officials said. 
“While the investigation is ongoing, it is evident the collision was preventable, the commanding officer exercised poor judgment, and the executive officer exercised poor leadership of the ship’s training program,” officials said in the Navy’s announcement. 

THERE ARE OTHER REASONS WHY AN INEPT STAFF FLUNKIE SOMEHOW ATTACHED TO "THE WHITE HOUSE" MAY HAVE BEEN LED TO REQUEST SUCH AN ASININE THING AS THIS, BUT EVEN TRUMP, WITH ALL HIS INFERIORITY COMPLEXES, NARCISSISM AND CLUELESSNESS ON HOW TO CONDUCT HIMSELF ON STATE VISITS, WOULDN'T COME UP WITH SUCH A CHILDISH PRANK AS THIS...  HIDING AN ENTIRE SHIP.

I'VE MADE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR FOR 10 YEARS NOW THAT I LOATHE ALL POLITICIANS, BUT DAMN THE MSM FOR THEIR CONTINUED, CEASELESS, UNWARRANTED AND POINTLESS HEADLINES TRYING AGAIN AND AGAIN TO SOW DISCORD AND "DUMP TRUMP".

TRUMP IS THE PRESIDENT AND, THANKS TO MAINSTREAM MEDIA'S TACTLESS, RABID, FALSE HEADLINES, HE WILL LIKELY WIN A SECOND TERM.  

AND WE WILL ALL BE SUBJECTED TO ANOTHER 4 YEARS OF TRUMP-BASHING WHILE REAL NEWS, INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM, HONEST REPORTING GOES COMPLETELY TO HELL.









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