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Found this so far.

http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=741

J.H.: I’m a political activist, but on a very limited basis. I’ve had two politicians that I’m very fond of. One was Father Robert Drinan, who was a congressman from Massachusetts for ten years and whose campaign I got involved in. [Drinan retired from Congress in 1980 when the Catholic Church prohibited priests from holding public office]. And the second is John Kerry. I view them both as the non-typical politicians they are. I admire them for their character, their integrity, their honesty, their intellectual ability, and their sense of history. It’s not one specific issue, it’s the makeup of the whole individual that has attracted me to them.

I have been involved in John Kerry’s campaigns, starting when he ran for Senate in 1984, and then again in 1990 and 1996. In 2002, he had no campaign to speak of, no challenger. I don’t consider myself a political junkie; I consider myself to be somebody who is very admiring and very supportive of John Kerry and want to do everything I can. I think this is a critically important election for the country. I think the country is categorically going in the wrong direction under George Bush, and I have every confidence in the honesty, the integrity, the character, the principles, and the motivation of John Kerry. I support him without question, without reserve.

In one of the most-ignored stories surrounding the Swift Boat Vets flap, the head of "Veterans for Kerry" is himself a former Vietnam war protester, who has known Kerry since 1971, and worked on each of his campaigns since 1984.

"Veterans for Kerry" was started by, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of, Kerry for President. It really isn't an organization at all, but the name of the Kerry campaign's outreach program to veterans, and it's head, picked by John Kerry, was indeed a veteran, but he first met Kerry when they were both war protesters.

The head of the group, John Hurley, a semi-retired Wellesley lawyer, works full-time for the Kerry campaign, and has worked on Kerry's previous campaigns dating back to at least 1984, by his own account. He also marched in the John Kerry/VVAW-organized "Dewey Canyon III" in 1971. (The medal-tossing protest.) Read for yourself:

http://www.drredwood.com/interviews/hurley.shtml

Hurley also has reportedly made calls to try to strong-arm people into changing their recollections of Kerry's VVAW past (such as his presence at the meeting discussing the plot to assassinate Senators):

http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/03/22&ID=Ar00106

He even posted this note searching for one of Kerry's crew in November, 1996
- remember this when they suggest that Kerry's this "Band of Brothers" reassembled on their own:

http://www.vietvet.org/navy005.htm

In case it's purged later, here's what it says:

Trying to locate: Delbert "Del" Sandusky
Branch of Service: Navy
Unit was: swift boats
Where served: the Delta
When served: 1969

Message is: Trying to locate Delbert Sandusky for reunion of Swift Boat 94.
Call 617-235-2287
Please contact: John Hurley
Mailing address: 78 Longfellow Rd
City, State, Zip: Wellesley, MA 02181
Or send email to John Hurley using this automatic email form BQI@AOL.com

It doesn't say, "come work for John Kerry" - it says "trying to locate... for reunion." Why would an Army vet be trying organize a reunion with a Navy guy he'd never met? Obviously, this was a political recruitment - and a dishonest one.

While Swiftvets are grilled about whether they have ever voted for a Republican, and treated like stealth political operatives, every show I've seen John Hurley appear on - from Hyannity to Hardball to Scarborough - gives a free pass to the guy who actually is a political operative.

John Hurley is a longtime Democrat activist and John Kerry supporter. He is not part of any sort of spontaneously formed veterans group in support of Kerry, and it is very dishonest to allow him to present himself as anything other than what he is. Beyond that, his first meeting with Kerry was not in the service, but in the anti-war movement - a "Band of Others" with whom Kerry's strongest loyalties, it would seem, still lie.

He is a so called EXPERT on what happened on the Swift Boats, but he wasn't in the Navy...he was in the Army!! And the Media...Creep JOE SCARBOURGH...CHRISSY MATTHEWS..etal act like he's an EYEWITNESS!!

Was he at the meetin of VVAW where ASSASSINATING SENATORS was discussed and VOTED ON?? John Kerry was...was Hurley??

Is this the same John Hurley?

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=000&invol=U10260

John Hurlery, Kerry spokesman - anti-gay?