There've been FOIA requests to the Justice Department for information into the FBI investigation of fraud of the Farmer's Home Administration, proceeds of which misappropriated moneys were plowed into Democratic Party political campaigns in the St Louis and downstate Illinois area since 1988.
If the Justice Department stonewalls press inquiries into Kerry and the VVAW as effectively, it'll be 2020 before there's even a chance that that public information is released.
Problem is, it took him 11 years to get them (I read somewhere). I agree with the poster who said this "burglary" is to immunize Kerry from any release by Bush of new FBI info. If anything contained in the files is released they'll blame the burglary on the Bushies or claim that "privileged" FBI data was illegally released.