Posted on 05/28/2005 10:38:40 AM PDT by Prost1
After pledging to Tim Russert that he would sign a form authorizing the Defense Department to release his military records, Sen. John Kerry has finally put his signature on the document.
Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Jan. 30, Kerry told host Tim Russert that he would sign the form known as SF 180, but did not say when he would do it.
It took him a solid 110 days to get around to it, and then only after a continuous drumbeat of demands from some conservatives.
A Kerry spokesman told the Washington Times the form is now in the hands of the Navy, where it will be processed before being passed to the National Personnel Records Center. The process could take a couple of months.
Once they are made public, the documents will either prove or disprove claims the Swift Boat veterans leveled against the senator during the 2004 presidential election campaign.
Kerry and his media allies such as the New York Times called the Swift Boat vets a bunch of politically motivated operatives who they claimed shamelessly vilified Kerry's war record.
For their part the vets charged that Kerry's real Vietnam service was so at odds with what he had for years claimed was his heroic war record that it proved him, as they put it, "unfit for command" as America's commander in chief.
Regretably, the Bush administration has shown a consistent urge to cover up for the Democrats--certainly for the clintons, but also for kerry. Can anyone doubt that if the shoe were on the other foot and clinton were still in office, he would have managed to leak his oponents' records to the press? He did so with Linda Tripp's records at the Pentagon.
I don't know why on earth the Bush administration would want to scrub kerry's records, but it would not surprise me if they did. I can't imagine Kerry agreeing to release these records unless he has some assurance that they won't hurt him.
Very eeeentehresting...
Need some pretty heavy hitters to get in and clean up
those records...
Perhaps a cleaner Kerry could keep the Hildabeast off her
feed for a while...
I think the talk of "scrubbing" the records a bit on the paranpid side. You can't demand he release them and then say even if he does they'll be fake and remain credible.
Once he signs the form, a FOIA request is all it takes to make them public.
And since his opponents have a lot to gain if--as we all think they are harmful to him--I'd be surprised if the press remains silent.
Should be a pretty short record, given that he was there only 4 months.
"Once they are made public, the documents will either prove or disprove claims the Swift Boat veterans leveled against the senator during the 2004 presidential election campaign."
These records will be sooooo redacted and inked up as to make them unusable. Won't change a thing since he has had a year to make them what he wants them to be through the help of his "buddies" in records and Bush-hating higher ups.
Did Kerry serve in Viet Nam?
This will certainly cost Bush Florida and the election.
We're DOOOOOMED!!
The incriminating sheets of paper are in Sandy Berger's pants.
Oops... Sorry about that last post. The clock on my computer was off.
Whoever in the US Senate that gave Hanoi Kerry
a Top Secret Clearance HAS seen all his military records.
The FBI, since 9/11, does non military clearances.
His most recent one who have been in the spring/summer of '04
when he won the dims's nomination against President Bush.
NO ONE gets a Top Secret Clearance WITHOUT agreeing to have all your records released.
OR pass a FULL FBI check when someone
runs for the highest elected
office in th ecountry.
Does the DC crowd think "We the People" are stupid?
damn you SERKIT, damn you!!
White-Out thickens the pages.
:p
That is a joke..........they will get lost or at least the damaging parts will be......no doubt!
Yep.
"Did Kerry serve in Viet Nam?"
No, but he spent a night on the "Love Boat."
If he changes so much as a period on his papers he will have real prosecutable troubles.
I don't think that is completely true. Functionally there must be an exception for some elected officials. E.g. would any honest security checker have given Bubba one if he hadn't been president? Yet we can't function as a president who can't be told everything and we can't prohibit someone from being president for a series of insecure lapses in their youth... and adulthood; at least we can't prohibit them long as we continue to ignore the 14th amendment, Section 3, and Article III, Section 3. I suspect all Congress-critters (but not staff) are also exempted and also major party presidential nominees.
I figure he is releasing them before Hillary gets a chance to leak them.
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