Kerry citation a 'total mystery' to ex-Navy chief (John Lehman)

Sun Times ^ | August 28, 2004 | Thomas Lipscomb

[Grampa Dave]

Kerry citation a 'total mystery' to ex-Navy chief

August 28, 2004

BY THOMAS LIPSCOMB

Former Navy Secretary John Lehman has no idea where a Silver Star citation displayed on Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's campaign Web site came from, he said Friday. The citation appears over Lehman's signature.

"It is a total mystery to me. I never saw it. I never signed it. I never approved it. And the additional language it contains was not written by me," he said.

The additional language varied from the two previous citations, signed first by Adm. Elmo Zumwalt and then Adm. John Hyland, which themselves differ. The new material added in the Lehman citation reads in part: "By his brave actions, bold initiative, and unwavering devotion to duty, Lieutenant (jg) Kerry reflected great credit upon himself...."

Asked how the citation could have been executed over his signature without his knowledge, Lehman said: "I have no idea. I can only imagine they were signed by an autopen." The autopen is a device often used in the routine execution of executive documents in government.

Kerry senior adviser Michael Meehan could not be reached for comment on Kerry's records.

Thomas Lipscomb is chairman of the Center for the Digital Future in New York

[mass55th]

Bronze Star Signature:

Silver Star Signature:

9/11 Report Signature:

[Grampa Dave]

"Well, my goodness. And just a few minutes ago on MSNBC, Bill Press announced that every smear against Kerry had been proven false, so case closed. Guess this is one he missed. Press looked like someone had just died."

Bill Press and his buddy Al Hunt are the world class serial liars of the Lunatic Left. They lie so much, they damn near make moi Kerri look honest. I would take oral surgery without any pain reduction before watching Press and/or Hunt for a single moment.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Holy ...., how is Kerry's Spinmeisters gonna handle this one!

[Mo1]

What's this??

A Reporter actually asking questions??

[atomicpossum]

Well glory be ... somebody is actually going to look at the source! Good luck correcting the folks here who labor under false impressions.

Lehman's signature on both of those looks, to me, to be identical (meaning, 'not handwritten').

[7.62 x 51mm]

You are corrent: Main Stream Media

[Grampa Dave]

"It is a total mystery to me. I never saw it. I never signed it. I never approved it. And the additional language it contains was not written by me," he said.
What????"


It appears that John Lehman has entered the side of honesty versus the pathological serial liar, moi Kerri!

[M-cubed]

the MSM is begining to catch the scent of blood in the water....<<< Ya think so?...When you're drowning in a pool of blood its very hard NOT to smell it!...They can only be so ignorant for so long...then its their asses that are on the line!...When they turn...they'll be vicious!...Just hope we're not setting Hilderbeast up to "save the day!"

[e_castillo]

I think by normal standards "nutjob" would fit his epitaph quite well. Judging by all the different stories about the same issues being "seared" into his mind etc... Maybe it got too hot in there.

[Grampa Dave]

"Big WOW! Is anything about Kerry real, I wonder?"

As I have posted many times as challenge to those who try to support Kerry, "Is there anytime that Kerry has not lied to the American People?"

[Lancey Howard]

Very interesting indeed.

[libs_kma]

I just want this to come out so that we can listen to the total silence of all the foaming at the mouth dims that say his record is un-impeachable... They are still not giving an inch on this and they have to beleive that eventually all this data will hit a main(left)stream media source.

[Cboldt]

The replacement citation should not have been altered at all unless there were an error to be corrected. The flowery prose praining the traitor's exploits is nothing but "padding" - aka bovine excrement.

Read the citations, and point out the changes that amount to padding. I read them, and the word "calm" was removed (regarding Kerry's demeanor) from a boilerplate sentence. Otherwise, the citations are identical.

[Wu]

Here is my post:

Silver Stars are never awarded for anything but Valor thus have no need for a "V" device to differentiate between a meritorious or valor award. Good eye on the pub date!



62 posted on 08/12/2004 9:34:34 AM PDT by Wu
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[MeekOneGOP]

More refutation of yet another .....

[Moomah]

This is starting to read like a novel ... newly elected president indicted on war crimes and document forgery before inauguration leaving the constitutionalists scrambling to see if the VP becomes Pres before every actually BEING VP ... Hehehe.

Forgerygate here we come ...

[devolve]

The Great Pretender:   

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Critical dates: Oct 14 & 15, 1969

While on active duty at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Lt(jg.) John Kerry illegally signed out to a bogus
destination and flew Adam Wilensky to anti-war rallies.

Source: Harvard Crimson and Peggy and John Kerry

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Critical dates: Nov 12-15, 1971  

While at a VVAW Steering Committee Conference in KC
John Kerry on Nov 15, 1971 "allegedly" votes
against the VVAW "Phoenix Project" plot
to assassinate 6 US Senators.

Source: FBI documents, VVAW witnesses and minutes.

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The blood is in the water!

[bvw]

My searing recollections searingly recollect MSM floating upriver in Cambodia NET last three searing weeks.

NET == "No Earlier Than"

[Prost1]

It is also a federal crime to destroy classified documents without proper authority.

But, last I heared, Sandy (sticky fingers) Berger was still loose...

[Cboldt]

Those are boilerplate differences. No substance in them covers the action that lead to the award.