[savedbygrace]

The lying part isn't going to win the day. But if these witnesses hold to their story, Kerry is in a whole heap of trouble for failing to report this assassination plot. That's the key issue here.

We need to stay on this one overarching issue. It's the failure to report. Since we have witnesses, this story can be firmly established. From that, we can hitchhike his failure to report the war attrocities he testified to. Then, the entire war hero schtick he has going just disappears, leaving him with only Massachusetts and D. C. for electoral votes.

[hummingbird]

The lying part isn't going to win the day. But if these witnesses hold to their story, Kerry is in a whole heap of trouble for failing to report this assassination plot. That's the key issue here.

If the plot had gone through, wouldn't he have been some kind of accessory after the fact? Between Monk, Columbo, Matlock ("MATLOCK!" screamed Abe Simpson.), etc, I get my jargon confused sometimes. At any rate, it didn't go through but failure to report is the critical issue, I agree, savedbygrace.