Arlen Specter: “I have grave reservations about the paragraph 6, which is the operative paragraph in both the McCain and Kerry…”

“I have grave reservations about the paragraph 6, which is the operative paragraph in both the McCain and Kerry amendments, which says that we should lift the embargo in order to obtain the fullest possible accounting. I have doubts about that because I have doubts that there will be further disclosure by lifting of the embargo. The question on my mind--and I have an open mind. I do not know how I am going to vote on this. The question in my mind is whether the Vietnamese Government has made a full accounting. If we are sure that there are no more prisoners of war, and I believe that is accepted on all sides, that there are no more prisoners of war which are being held, then the question is whether there has been a fullest possible disclosure of the facts on the MIA's, and if that is true, I am prepared to vote to lift the embargo. If it is not true that there has been the fullest disclosure as to the remains of the MIA's, then my instinct is not to vote to lift the embargo.”