[lugsoul]

Of course. That's why the calls to sign the 180 were pointless posturing. It was inevitable that, if and when he signed it, those who had been calling for his records would claim that they had somehow been sanitized.

Is there anything short of a document indicating that Kerry had been dishonorably discharged that would lead you to believe that the entire file had been produced?

[tobyhill]

Any finding of an original Dishonorable Discharge could be hard to find if a military judge or high ranking officer ordered the discharge changed and all records leading to the original discharge be permanently removed from the individual's file. The missing files may have even come as a surprise to Kerry himself or it may have been part of the agreement that Kerry will leave the military, without a fight, if he received an honorable and all negative records removed from his file?