Author Suspects GOP in Kerry FBI File Theft

NewsMax.com ^ | 4/04/04 | NewsMax email

[CyberAnt]

BREAKING NEWS FROM NEWSMAX

Vietnam War historian Gerald Nicosia said Friday that burglars who broke into his house a week ago Thursday and removed thousands of documents from Sen. John Kerry's FBI files were most likely Republican operatives.

"I would say that the Republicans had the largest motivation because there definitely is... a heck of a lot of explosive stuff about Kerry in there," Nicosia told MSNBC's "Scarborough Country."

The author, who has unabashedly proclaimed his support for Kerry's presidential bid, obtained the FBI files while working on his 1999 book "Home to War," filing a Freedom of Information Act request that took eleven years to yield results.

Nicosia said he didn't think the top Democrat or his staff were worried about the 20,000 page stash of surveillance material he had on him.

"The Kerry camp had no reason to believe I would not cooperate with them," Nicosia insisted, explaining that he shared portions of the files with Kerry operatives a few days before their theft.

Still, after Nicosia used the files two weeks ago to disprove Kerry's denials that he attended a 1971 meeting of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War where a plot to assassinate pro-war politicians was discussed - some see the motivations of the file thieves differently.

"This almost sounds like a West Coast version of Watergate 2004," host Joe Scarborough told Nicosia and fellow guest Pat Buchanan. "Maybe it was an inside job by somebody in the Kerry campaign."

Indeed, if the Kerry camp was involved in the FBI file break-in, it wouldn't be the first time it had engaged in Watergate-style political sabotage.

As the New York Post reported just last month, during Kerry's 1972 bid for Congress, his younger brother, Cameron Kerry, was arrested for "breaking into... the headquarters of a Kerry opponent" in Lowell, Mass.

Kerry's brother and another campaign worker pleaded not guilty to charges of "breaking and entering with the intent to commit grand larceny."

After the arrests, candidate Kerry told the New York Times that the break-in was a preemptive strike in response to threats that phone lines to his campaign headquarters were about to be sabotaged.

Cameron Kerry is now a partner in a Boston-based law firm and has been a key financial backer of all of his brother's campaigns.

[montag813]

Assuming the FBI made copies of these files, someone please ask MArk Levin or another super-smart lawyer to simply initiate a new request under the Freedom of Information Act. LET'S SEE THOSE DAMN FILES!!!

[Diddle E. Squat]

FYI, more of a timed pattern. Author is trying to draw parallels to the Nixon Administration. The same weekend that John Dean calls the Bush Admin more crooked than the Nixon Admin, the same weekend that 60 Minutes does a hit piece with a 'whistleblower' stating that the Bush Admin is more crooked than the Nixon WH. So who will be next to make that claim, Katie, a Dem Senator, or a DNC press release?

BTW, why would the GOP break-in and steal files it could obtain(and probably already has) via a FOIA request, just like the author did? Another manufactured faux scandal. Perhaps instead of the 'Clarke of the Week' strategy we're gonna see a 'Clarke de jour' one.

[CyberAnt]

LOL! You could be right!

[Yaelle]

"The Kerry camp had no reason to believe I would not cooperate with them," Nicosia insisted, explaining that he shared portions of the files with Kerry operatives a few days before their theft.

At which point the Kerry camp realized that they could severely hurt his chances at becoming President!

[FairOpinion]

Ask "who benefits".

The GOP had absolutely nothing to gain, but Kerry may get very embarrassed if some of those things come to light.

So, I ask again, who benefirs?

[CyberAnt]

In your 1st paragraph - hasn't this guy already said that he didn't have time to read this stuff - and he hadn't read the stuff that was stolen so he didn't know what was in it. Well .. if that's true .. then how would he know there was a "lot of explosive stuff about Kerry in there".

"Kerry is more important to Kerry than he is to Bush, no?"

I totally agree!

[Lucky2]

I seriously doubt the GOP snuck in and stole those docs. We've already had a Watergate. If those docs were that revealing, then I'd place my bet on the kerry hack stealing them and blaming the GOP.

[olinr]

"....expose all these morons for the traitors they are."

THANK YOU!

Someone willing to call them traitors. I've said it and
I believe they have the criteria to be called: TRAITORS!
How many GI's have been killed today because of their
actions?

[hoot2]

"Author Suspects GOP in Kerry FBI File Theft "

dang, thought we could get away with it this time...

[CyberAnt]

I smell a rat! I believe Hillary put him up to getting these documents. Then .. she also arranged to have part of them stolen in order to blame it on the GOP.

If this guy gets all the TV time - what does Hillary care.

[CyberAnt]

"Republicans stole the material to keep him from making it public and embarassing Kerry"

I love this one .. LOL!!

[Delta 21]

Thats a Classic !

[CyberAnt]

My bet is on the Kerry hack too.

[CyberAnt]

Who are the people on the left - I don't recognize them.

[CyberAnt]

Very good! I think we've solved this theft already.

[CyberAnt]

Exactly! This attempt to smear the GOP does not surprise me, but aside from hiding the files, what gain is there?

This guy said he hadn't read the files that were stolen .. which means he didn't know what was in the files .. the only people who knew what was in those particular files were the KERRY OPERATIVES with whom he shared the files.

Somebody's lying BIG TIME .. because why would the GOP steal files if they didn't know what was contained in the files ..?? That's ignorant! Only dems would do something that stupid.

[CyberAnt]

The FBI would definitely have made copies. They keep the originals.

[Lancey Howard]

George W. Bush, as President of the United States, can get his hands on those old FBI files anytime he wants (and probably without having to go through all the FOIA stuff, LOFL). In fact he could probably ask for them and have them on his desk in less than half-an-hour. But this author is saying publicly that he thinks it was GOP operatives who stole them? It's too stupid and embarrassing to even be laughable.

I reiterate, there is not a doubt in my mind that this little mouse turd Nicosia concocted the whole story to get his face on TV, and I am disappointed that Joe Scarborough accomodated him. But now, let's let him fade away. His self-orchestrated "fifteen minutes" are long over. Or should be.

[CyberAnt]

These people obviously think we're too stupid to figure this out for ourselves. This theft is just toooooo convenient.

[CyberAnt]

"missing and FBI files" = Hillary

Yeah, I had that as my first reaction too.