McCain To Disclose Partial Medical Records -- But Only For Three Hours!

This doesn't sound like full disclosure to me:

Senator John McCain is set to release 400 pages of medical records, including documents related to his melanoma surgery in August 2000, to a tightly controlled group of reporters on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend....

On Friday, the campaign will allow a small pool of reporters access to the records from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Pacific time in a conference room at the Copper Wind Resort in Phoenix, near the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale. The reporters will be allowed to take notes but not remove or photocopy the records. Campaign officials said they were imposing the restrictions to prevent the actual records from wide dissemination.

Around the same time, campaign officials said, they will post medical summaries of each year from 2000 to 2008 on the campaign Web site. The summaries will not include doctors’ notes in the actual records.

Why limit it to only three hours? Why do it on a Friday before Memorial Day weekend? Why limit it to only 11 news organizations?

And most importantly, why is he only showing them 400 cherry-picked documents? What about the other 1100?

In his first campaign for president in 1999, Mr. McCain made public, also to a tightly controlled group of reporters, 1,500 pages of in-depth medical and psychiatric records amassed in a Navy project to gauge the health of former prisoners of war.

Why is McCain hiding two-thirds of his medical and psychiatric records from the press? If he allowed reporters to peek at them in 1999, what has changed? I'm guessing they showed ailments and symptoms that might not have been a problem in 1999, but are a much bigger deal eight years down the road.

And you have to wonder if ANY of the psychiatric records are going to be disclosed this time. Wouldn't surprise me a bit if the old man kept a lid on the really disturbing stuff about his mental imbalance.