Michael Dobbs, also at the WP, wrote about Brinkley's refusal to let him see Kerry's journals. Strange that every thing is secret about Kerry's Vietnam experience.
Like an onion, the lies are revealed layer by layer.
Brinkley's reputation for scholarship and objectivity has been ruined as a result of his press agent flackery in Tour of Duty.
> Brinkley's reputation for scholarship and objectivity
> has been ruined as a result of his press agent flackery
> in Tour of Duty.
He's in bigger trouble than that. The ToD book is what
set the Swifties off. The "Self Destruct" button on
Starship Kerry may not have been properly labelled,
but Brinkley is the fool who wondered "what does this
little button do?".
Brinkley apparently made little or no effort to contact
the surviving swifties (or perhaps he did call a couple,
and didn't like what he heard). In any case, he ignored
the ticking bomb of truths out there.
> I thought Brinkley had entered the witness protection
> program - at least that's what Mark Steyn wrote.
He's toast on both sides of the aisle now.