Good observation, especially since the Boston Globe reporter who originally published the "foreign leader" quote now says that Kerry never said that - but Teddy is implying that these meetings did happen.
I honestly believe that they are being told what to do
I respectfully disagree, they're just too disjointed. During the Clinton years, the media and politicians lied with military precision. The Kerry camp is all over the map on just this one issue.
And so has Kerry, who just announced that he now declines those endorsements. When everybody has a different story and the principal shrinks from answering the simplest question on a subject he himself brought up, people are going to smell a rat.