[Sabertooth]

Following publication of the Los Angeles Times article, Kerry released some of the documents he had been given. The memos reported that there was nothing to associate Kerry with any violence or violent group. They recommended that no further investigation be conducted.

Which only proves that Kerry never reported to any authorities his knowledge of the VVAW leadership's discussion of the plot to assassinate six U.S. Senators.

That FBI report is not exculpatory, it's damning.

[Sabertooth]

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[concerned about politics]

"By the time I got the files, the book was about to go to press," Nicosia said.

As for the thief, it's a breaking and entering charge.
The break in is the small issue, the documents are the most important issue. My guess is the Kerry team didn't want them out there. The right wing would have been happy to have them published, and would have wanted the writer to spread the word.
Yep. The Kerry team wanted them gone, I'll bet.

[Rivendell]

"There is obviously a lot of sensitive stuff in that material - stuff that could really be used against Kerry in a big way in the campaign," Nicosia said. " Maybe we're back in the era of dirty tricks."

This whole thing stinks of dnc RAT droppings. Either this guy is a complete dupe or he is working hand in hand with the kerry camp to a) Preempt any potential criticism of kerry's anti-war activity and/or... b) Try to tag the Bush campaign/supporters with another "Watergate".

Reading the last quote of the article...I'd say "b" is the leading possibility.

I have my doubts that these files were "stolen" at all.../tinfoil hat

[concerned about politics]

"There is obviously a lot of sensitive stuff in that material - stuff that could really be used against Kerry in a big way in the campaign," Nicosia said. " Maybe we're back in the era of dirty tricks."

Yep. The Kerry supporters want the files GONE! Imagine if they were to get out to the public. Kerry would be toast.

BTW, I overheard a low life democrat "meet up" team talking at Burger King last week (I've never seen so many fat, dirty people in one place in all my life!).
They're telling pollsters they're Republicans, so the pollsters "will have an equal amount of democrat and Republican opinions".
No wonder the polls say someone, somewhere, is voting for Kerry.
Democrats are easier to contact because they're waiting by their phones hoping someone will call for kinky sex or watching TV waiting for their government check. Conservatives are too hard to contact because they work and raise families. If democrats are playing "Conservative" to sway the polls, that would explain it.
AND, if the polls continue to claim neck and neck numbers up until the election and Bush wins by a landslide, they'll claim it's a fascist take over or something, even though it was them being the deceivers in the first place (again).

[Diver Dave]

Someone could have entered the house during the afternoon when Nicosia went out and his wife and children were also out of the house. But Twin Cities Police Cpt. Michael Casteen said there was no sign of forced entry, and a construction crew working nearby said it saw nothing.

No need for forced entry when one has been given a key to the house and a list of the boxes in question marked with a big red check mark.

[GrandMoM]

"There is obviously a lot of sensitive stuff in that material - stuff that could really be used against Kerry in a big way in the campaign," Nicosia said.....how would anyone know which boxes contained the sensitive stuff unless they were told??????

" Maybe we're back in the era of dirty tricks.""DUH"....since the start of this campaign what party has been playing dirty tricks??????

[TrueBeliever9]

Police say they have no clue who stole documents - detailing the FBI's surveillance of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry during the 1970's - from the home of Gerald Nicosia, a Corte Madera author.

Ask Hillary...

[concerned about politics]

Early last week, a CNN reporter interviewed Nicosia at this house and broadcast pictures of the room with the documents. "Everyone saw what the boxes look like," Nicosia said.

CNN set the stage for the setup. Go figure.
Something smells, and it smells like a Jewish/Catholic French guy who served in Vietnam over 30 years ago.
The Democrats are extremely desperate to try this kind of thing. I smell a Bush landslide coming.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Nicosia, a Kerry supporter, ... While he has no evidence, Nicosia said he suspects political motives.

Gee, we have a Kerry supporter claiming files were stolen, but the police saying there's no evidence of a break-in and no one on a construction crew working in the neighborhood saw anything, yet Nicosia suspects a politically motivated break-in. So we have another Dick Clarke-like conspiracy theory. I suspect this is meant somehow to innoculate Kerry against whatever might be in those files, to make him look like a "victim" of the vast-right-wing conspiracy which controls the FBI.

[big gray tabby]

"Gerry, we really need you to "disappear" those files before you find anything else we need to be corrected on, okay?"

"Can't do it. If you want the files the back door is always open. Got it?"

"Thanks for being a team player, Gerry. Take the wife out for a nice dinner on us, eh?"

[Mo1]

Nice picture of the area where the boxes were kept and the "supposed" door that was used to break in

It looks like the one my mother put in her house some 30 years ago when I was a kid .. It could be popped open easliy .. I know because I there were a few times I forgot my keys :0)

[Interesting Times]

That FBI report is not exculpatory, it's damning.

That's a more likely explanation for the theft than Nicosia's "Republican dirty tricks" spin...

By the way, your pingees may be interested in a new Time Line section we've added to WinterSoldier.com -- it tries to pull together a number of the players and events in the international war crimes disinformation campaign.

[beckett]

Nicosia seems a little put out that more fingers aren't being pointed at Republicans, so a little too eagerly he volunteers the phrase "dirty tricks," an obvious reference to the Nixon's Plumbers, John Mitchell, Howard Hunt et al., and Watergate.

Nicosia had a hand in the "theft," bet on it.

[LibWhacker]

. . . submitted his Freedom of Information request in 1988 while working on his book "Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans Movement." . . . The information he requested - 14 boxes of files detailing the FBI's spying on the VVAW - arrived in 1999 . . .

Holy cow, it took the FBI (or whomever . . . The National Archives maybe?) 11 years to dig up all the documents in his FOIA request. Guess the world can forget about getting another set before the election. And by the time it does, Kerry's insiders will have destroyed the originals.

[doug from upland]

I just had a great conversation with reporter Rick Halstead. He has been given some additional info and was very, very intrigued. Let's see where it goes.

[cyncooper]

Just seeing this tonight. Very interesting.

Nicosia said his files also contained information supporting a story that ran in the Boston Globe Wednesday. The story said that Kerry traveled to Paris in 1971 and spoke to North Vietnamese negotiators. Kerry has since issued a statement saying the talks were informal, Nicosia said.

We all heard Kerry say himself that he made this trip. He said it in his Q & A before the Senate.

And btw, now the sliding door was being worked on by a repairman? How weird is that? It ads to the hinkiness of his story.

Is it me or is there a skeptical tone to this article, including the photo caption which states Nicosia "says" documents were stolen? And nearby construction workers saw nothing. Of course not! There were no burglars it is becoming plain to see.