[Hon]

"No one describes the VVAW's Kansas City meeting as "blowing off steam," they changed locations after learning the original meeting place was bugged, they put the assassination plot up for a vote, and Camill admits to the plot."

Absolutely. According to Randy Barnes, everybody knew that the discussion in that hall "was grounds for criminal indictment of conspiracy."

Also remember that Terry Dubose was ASSIGNED to assassinate John Towers (by his own admission). He never said whether they told him not to. Dubose seems to have not done it and quit the VVAW on his own.

[Sabertooth]

According to Randy Barnes, everybody knew that the discussion in that hall "was grounds for criminal indictment of conspiracy."

And I left out the part about two witnesses placing Kerry at the meeting and resigning as a result of the assassination plot.

BTW, if that's true, then it's also true that Kerry failed to report the plot, because there sure as heck would have been arrests.

So why not?

If the assassination plot was crazy enough that JFKerry resigned the VVAW, yet he failed to report the consipiracy, then only three possible reasons present themselves, to my eye:

1. Kerry didn't want to rat out any of his latest "band of brothers," which would parallel the "brothers" he claims to have witnessed committing atrocities in Vietnam, but didn't report.

2. Kerry couldn't report the conspiracy because his VVAW "brothers" had info on him, or because he was concerned that ancillary info on him would come out in an investigation of the conspiracy.

3. Kerry was threatened.

I lean toward #2.