Monsieur Kerrie release your records s’il vous plait

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Yes folks, it’s that time again. Anything new to report? Maybe just a little: More smoke and mirrors.

Questions still remain about Kerry’s records.

But will the press answer them? The Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times published in-depth accounts this week but, according to Lipscomb, the form that produced the documents may have asked for “anything and everything” or “nothing much at all.”

Stumbled across this today and I thought it was quite interesting:

William Middendorf, the Navy chief from 1974 to 1977, told WorldNetDaily today that Kerry, who began inactive reserve status in 1972, would have been issued a document three years later either for a reserve reaffiliation or a separation discharge.

An “honorable discharge” from 1978 appears on the Kerry campaign’s website, but a Navy lawyer who served under Middendorf believes that document is a substitute for one that would have been issued in 1975.

However, no such document can be found among the records Kerry has made available.

“I should think it would be in his interest to open up the files, to clear up any misunderstanding,” said Middendorf, who later served as ambassador to the Netherlands, European Union and Organization of American States.

So after all was said and done, Monsieur Kerrie didn’t really release his records, and we’re still waiting. How rude of you, sir, to promise the American public on national television to do so, and to “fake right while moving left.”

Release your records, John Kerry. I know you’ve got nothing to hide, as you’ve said many times, so just sign the form, and release the records to me. I’ll be totally fair with my release of the information therein. The world is watching.

Middendorf-

…enthusiastically vouches for the character of Mark Sullivan, who formed the basis for a story today in the New York Sun by Thomas Lipscomb, the first to report discrepancies in Kerry’s discharge record.

Sullivan, who served in the secretary of the Navy’s office in the Judge Advocate General Corps Reserve between 1975 and 1977, says the “honorable discharge” on the Kerry website appears to be a Carter administration substitute for an original action expunged from Kerry’s record, Lipscomb reported.

John O’Neill told Matt Margolis he has some questions about this, too.

We called for Kerry to execute a form which would permit anyone to examine his full and unexpulgated [sic] military records at the Navy Department and the National Personnel Records Center. Instead he executed a form permitting his hometown paper to obtain the records currently at the Navy Department. The Navy Department previously indicated its records did not include various materials.

This is hardly what we called for. If he did execute a complete release of all records we could then answer questions such as

(1)Did he ever receive orders to Cambodia or file any report of such a mission (whether at Christmas or otherwise);

(2) What was his discharge status between 1970 and 1978 (when he received a discharge) and was it affected by his meetings in 1970 and 1971 with the North Vietnamese?

(3)why did he receive much later citations for medals purportedly signed by Secretary Lehman who said he did not know of them;

(4) Are there Hostile Fire and Personnel Injured by Hostile Fire Reports for Kerry’s Dec. 1968 Purple Heart (when the officer in charge of the boat Admiral Schacte, the treating Surgeon Louis Letson, and Kerry’s Division Commander deny there was hostile fire causing a scratch) awarded three months later under unknown circumstances. ‘

Kit points out that the Form 180 gives you the option to get a “deleted” copy, which leaves out the reasons for separation and reenlistment eligibility code. Kerry must really think we’re stupid.

Here’s the section on the 180 form that Kit and Matt were discussing *that Kerry probably checked*:

So I guess he thinks we’re going to be happy with his “going through the motions” but not really DOING ANYTHING. Kind of like watching the movies he took of himself on his super8 camera in Vietnam in an army uniform when he was in the navy, heh?

For those of you who keep wondering why we’re pursuing this, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect someone who’s been a Senator for 20 years to tell the truth, and especially someone who ran for president on the platform that he is a war hero so he was “reporting for doody”. Even General Eisenhower didn’t do that.

I urge you all, write to Kerry, fax to kerry, protest his faux “release” and keep blogging away and use the “OHB” standard to beat the hell out of press and media outlets for shirking their responsibilities and thus further erode what little trust remains of an otherwise noble craft called journalism. I, for one, am not going to let this go. Civil servants own the public trust and should be worthy of it–they’re getting paid with our tax dollars. Traits like honesty should be the least of what we get from this–and we shouldn’t allow him to get away with this without a lot of noise in the blogosphere.

Remember, there are some serious questions about his “war hero” claims which would be set to rest if he’d just release the damned records like we asked. Now he’s doing a tap dance around the issue, and a sleight of hand.

There is evidence out there about the question of his discharge. Beldar Blog has a post up which shows the documentation -at Kerry’s campaign website and adds it up for us. So many questions still unanswered, Mr. Kerry, you slippery guy, you!

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