Signing isn't enough. He has to send it in to the proper authorities and allow the papers to be released to the public.
I'm betting we will never see his papers untill Hillary releases them!
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.
...or he's had enough time to tidy them up?
Thoroughly scrubbed is a better description...
Seeing is believing--see Polipundit.com and kausfiles. How do we know he signed it . And if he does will he mail it in or release all the records? Watch this space!
Yes, but who makes them public? Will there at least be an inventory available? Will the newsies accept only what is fed from the Kerry campaign? Will Kerry be allowed to redact information? I thought the whole point of the one-eight-oh was to allow FOIA access to the information from th source.
the fix is in
Okay, so maybe another 2 more months (not holding my breath).
"...the documents will either prove or disprove claims the Swift Boat veterans..."
Oh geez not necessarily. They may have been Bowdlerized at the moment they were written.
I think you're misinterpreting. He realizes that he'll never get elected President unless he releases it. So he's doing it now, hoping that the release will clear the way for another run.
don't know but i don't think he can change anything??? but maybe a "friend" can
I share ya'lls thoughts on this---
we already know that there was "hanky-panky" with signatures on some of the forms...that the Sec. of Navy during the time some of these forms were supposedly signed by him, doesn't even remember signing them...
We also know from the Swifties, that Kerry managed to "massage" his record even while still in Vietnam, by writing his own reports with falsity and duplicity....
I wish I could be excited about this, but it is too EASY, all of a sudden....therefore, I highly doubt "the truth" will be known....
To borrow a famous phrase, "JUST DAMN".
5.56mm
They've learned a few things about creating fake documents.
Kerry then most likely went over his entire record and stipulated what documents will be or will not be released.
It would explain why it took Kerry 110 days to do the form 180.
form 180 PING
Signing isn't enough. He has to send it in to the proper authorities and allow the papers to be released to the public.
I'm betting we will never see his papers untill Hillary releases them!
Maybe, finally a start?
So has anyone actually seen a copy of this allegedly-signed form 180?
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