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CLAREMONT - The Pentagon knows exactly where Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan, it just can't get to him, a member of the 9-11 Commission said Thursday. Commissioner John Lehman's remarks echoed those made Tuesday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who asserted the al-Qaida terror kingpin was alive and operating in the western part of that country. Bin Laden is living in South Waziristan in the Baluchistan Mountains of the Baluchistan Region, Lehman said, after delivering a keynote speech on terrorism at Pitzer College in Claremont to kick off the university's three-day writer's festival. In the exclusive interview,...

Watchdog Appeals Non-Investigation of Kerry Awards & Conduct Additional Navy Documents Sought Under Open Records Law (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed an appeal letter with Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England over a September 17, 2004 letter from the Naval Inspector General (“IG”), Vice Admiral Ronald A. Route, concerning the awards and conduct of Lieutenant (junior grade) John Forbes Kerry, USNR. The appeal letter was also addressed to Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Vern Clark, and to the Pentagon’s Inspector General, Joseph E. Schmitz....

The U.S. Navy has launched a new probe into Sen. John Kerry's Silver Star citation, after the Navy Secretary whose signature appears on the document said he never signed the award. "It is a total mystery to me," former Navy Secretary John Lehman told the Chicago Sun-Times in August. "I never saw it. I never signed it. I never approved it. And the additional language it contains was not written by me," he complained. The Lehman document is the last of three versions of Kerry Silver Star citation that have been posted to Kerry's campaign website. On Friday, Navy Inspector...

Navy Launches Second Kerry Medal Probe The U.S. Navy has launched a new probe into Sen. John Kerry's Silver Star citation, after the Navy Secretary whose signature appears on the document said he never signed the award. "It is a total mystery to me," former Navy Secretary John Lehman told the Chicago Sun-Times in August. "I never saw it. I never signed it. I never approved it. And the additional language it contains was not written by me," he complained. The Lehman document is the last of three versions of Kerry Silver Star citation that have been posted to Kerry's...

Possible Forged Documents in a CBS story anti-Bush hit-piece ought to revive questions as to whether there are any documents on John Kerry's website that are also forged. Particularly, still in question is the document entitled Silver Star which shows the 2nd and 3rd versions of his SS citation and in which John Lehman, Sec of Navy at the time, disputes its authenticity or validity. http://www.grassboots.org/#2

RECORD BREAK-IN It appears that the Kerry campaign is finally getting some of its own medicine, as it is feeling heat to release the bulk of the Sen. John Kerry's service record. For months, the campaign has been hiding behind Freedom of Information Act requests and what it has said was an exclusivity contract with its paid historian, Douglas Brinkley. But Brinkley late Friday said that there was nothing holding back the campaign from releasing documents. By some counts, there are more than 100 pages of documents related to Kerry's military service that may answer some of the many unanswered...

Sunday editorial, New York Post:KERRY'S WAR VS. KERRYFormer Navy Secretary John Leh man denied at week's end having written the Silver Star citation that appears on John Kerry's campaign Web site over Lehman's signature, dealing the Democrat's presidential campaign another stunning blow. Which makes us wonder: Does Kerry still believe that running on his Vietnam will gain him the White House? Kerry's Silver Star is the most prestigious of his Vietnam decorations — it's the nation's third-highest for combat valor — but there are at least three official versions of how he earned it. The most recent — and the...

JOHN FORBES KERRY SILVER STAR CITATION REVISIONS - FULL TEXTS "The Incredibly Shrinking Silver Star" NOTES Zumwalt Original Hyland Revision Lehman Revision HEADING: Aside from the differences in the issuing authority and minor punctuation, Kerry's middle name is shortened in the final revision to the initial "F." which more resembles Kerry's hero, John F. Kennedy. COMMANDER UNITED STATES NAVAL FORCES VIETNAM The President of the Unites States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to JOHN FORBES KERRY LIEUTENANT JUNIOR GRADE UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE for service as set forth in the following: CITATION COMMANDER IN CHIEF UNITED...

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.

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,...

Just turned on my TV and John Lehman was on Fox & Friends. It sounded like they had just been discussing the Front Page magazine article about Kerry's awards citations. Did anyone see the entire interview? Did Lehman shed any light on why HE signed Kerry's citations....13 years after Kerry left Vietnam?

John Kerry had his Citation for the Silver Star rewritten 14 years after he received it, according to Brit Hume, Fox News. The rewritten version signed by John Lehman, Secretary of Defense during the Reagan Admin., assumingly, Mr. Hume says, because Lehman would go along with a senior member on the Intelligence Committee.

Uneven military service records have proved toxic to John Kerry's campaign for president, prompting him to post his full military record on his Web site (www.johnkerry.com) for critics to peruse. But one sharp-eyed Washington Times reader — a former B-52 pilot and U.S. Air Force colonel — isn't buying Mr. Kerry's pre-emptive strike. It is for an action that took place in 1969, but it is signed by Secretary of the Navy John Lehman. Strangely, Lehman was secretary of the Navy from 1981 to 1987," he noted. "How could Kerry have received a citation from an official that would not...

While researching Kerry's medal controversy found that the page(s) on his website re the document for his bronze star that was signed by Lehman (Secy of the Navy 81-87) is now blank. On terpsboy.com found a link to KerryEdwards site for the Silver Star cerificate signed by John H. Hyland and then a SECOND certificate signed by Lehman. This link also shows a blank page on the KerryEdwards site. Is this info still on KerryEdward site and I just can't find it? Are those medals in Kerry's office the original? If so why anything signed by Lehman?

Uneven military service records have proved toxic to John Kerry's campaign for president, prompting him to post his full military record on his Web site (www.johnkerry.com) for critics to peruse. But one sharp-eyed Washington Times reader -- a former B-52 pilot and U.S. Air Force colonel -- isn't buying Mr. Kerry's pre-emptive strike.

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is seriously considering nominating John Lehman, businessman, former Navy secretary and current 9/11 commissioner, to replace George Tenet as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, NBC News has learned from multiple sources at the White House, the State Department and on Capitol Hill. The nomination of Lehman, who is being viewed as the leading candidate, could come as soon as Thursday, in an attempt to deflect attention from a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the agency, a report expected to be highly critical. The official release of the report has been delayed because ranking Democratic...

'Our Enemy Is Not Terrorism' The U.S. Naval Institute 130th Annual Meeting and Annapolis Naval History Symposium (2004) Address by Former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman We are at a juncture today that really is more of a threshold, even more of a watershed, than the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was in 1941. We are currently in a war, but it is not a war on terrorism. In fact, that has been a great confusion, and the sooner we drop that term, the better. This would be like President Franklin Roosevelt saying in World War II, "We are...

Media coverage of the 9/11 Commission's most-recent staff statements has centered on debunking the assertion that al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein had a working relationship. Largely lost in the debate are a number of interesting revelations. The Commission's Staff Statement No. 15 ("Overview of the Enemy"), states that one plot floated by the mujahedeen in Afghanistan involved taking over a launcher and forcing Russian scientists to fire a nuclear missile at the United States. Former presidential consultant and GeoStrategic Analysis President Peter Heussy says, "The commission's staff report gives major credence to the need for a ballistic missile defense system...

A senior officer in Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's security services was a member of the terrorist group that committed the September 11 attacks, a member of the commission investigating the suicide hijackings said yesterday. "There is at least one officer of Saddam's Fedayeen, a lieutenant colonel, who was a very prominent member of al Qaeda," said September 11 commission member and former Navy Secretary John Lehman.

The commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks has received new information indicating that a senior officer in an elite unit of the security services of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein may have been a member of al-Qaida involved in the planning of the suicide hijackings, panel members said Sunday. John F. Lehman, a Reagan-era GOP defense official told NBC's "Meet the Press" that documents captured in Iraq "indicate that there is at least one officer of Saddam's Fedayeen, a lieutenant colonel, who was a very prominent member of al Qaida