Edited sentence: Critics argue that avoiding a discussion of the intelligence by shredding the intelligence report was not in keeping with pledges to put everything out in the open.Early during the committee Kerry  made public statements about the committee putting everything out in the open.Kerry's most criticized role as a United States Senator was his chairmanship of the 1991-1992 Senate Select POW/MIA Committee.Supporters argue it was time to put the Vietnam War behind so that U.Yet when when six live sighting investigators unanimously concluded that Vietnam and Laos held American POWs well after the war had ended, Kerry instructed that the report of the six investigators be shredded along with all of their personl notes.companies could participate in potentially lucrative trade with Vietnam