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[OrioleFan]

Maybe Kerry dank too much iced tea and had to "step out" when the assasination plot was discussed...

[mo]

Great...so now we're down to playing the Washington Amnesia game...there must REALLY be some liability concerning his civic reponsibility over this issue.

[doug from upland]

I had an extensive conversation with Kranish last week. To his credit, he took the info seriously and did the story. It seems to be a balanced piece, but I would have liked him to talk about Barnes appearance on the John Gibson show. Does anyone have the transcript of Barnes on that show???

[TommyDale]

This is completely unbelievable. Sorry, Mr. Kerry, but you are just not credible on this one. First of all, your FBI files show clearly that you were in attendance. While you claim that you resigned, there is no record of it. You continued to be a spokesman for these turds after you claim you resigned.

Think about it -- You can't remember attending a conference where assassinations were not only discussed, but actually voted upon? You don't remember the talk of assassinating 7 U.S. Senators, even though you are now a U.S. Senator yourself? Sorry, but even in the drunkest, stoned state of mind ANYONE would remember such a thing. To top all of this off, you committed a felony for NOT REPORTING the suggested plot.

Unless, of course, you were the FBI mole?

[doug from upland]

BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS...er, Kansas City

[FourtySeven]

The report, from an unnamed confidential source, said "John Kerry, a national VVAW leader, appeared at the meeting and announced to those present he was resigning from the executive committee for personal reasons; however, he would be available to speak for VVAW." The report does not mention discussion of a plot to kill senators; instead, it mentions that the group planned activities such as "a fast, a vigil, and guerrilla theater."

Damn. < sigh >

[VadeRetro]

Was starting to wonder where this story went. John Fund mentioned it in the WSJ and then, instead of the usual echo, nothing. The media has the reverb pegged to zero.

[highlander_UW]

If Kerry can't recall being at this meeting then clearly it couldn't have been the reason he resigned from the group, now could it? And if he didn't resign from the group over plans to assassinate senators then he's just proved, yet again, that he should be in prison and not running for president.

[Criminal Number 18F]

A few points:

1. When Nicosia got burgled, where was Kerry's brother Cam and campaign worker Thomas Vallely? They have burgled for Kerry before. They're middle-aged burghers now, but the best place to find a specific criminal is among people who commit the same kinds of crimes.

2. We have had at least one witness complain that Kerry workers had pressed him to "improve his memory" of 30-year-old events, where that memory was unfavourable to Kerry. This has specifically happened with reference to the meeting. (There has also been some of this among his Navy crew). Now we have Camil, Barnes, et al., all of whom are committed to the Kerry campaign, changing their stories for the Globe, which is also committed to the Kerry campaign and which coordinates its Kerry coverage tightly with the campaign.

3. The Nicosia book described the extreme security measures taken to ensure that only Executive Committee members discussed the assassination plot.

4. All of the story-changing and improved (or deteriorated) memory has been in the direction that favours Kerry. Funny, that, and statistically... unlikely.

5. Has anyone else run into FR newbies in recent days who downplay this assassination plot, and try to argue equivalence between Kerry and Bush? A subtle, effective psyops ploy, either hatched by the campaign or one of its "independent" dirty tricks arms like MoveOn. To me the fact that they are pulling out all the stops to quash this story indicates that it is true, or close to some other truth that they are worried about. One thing's for sure, the Boston Globe will not find anything negative on Kerry. If he took a sharp turn, they'd all have broken noses....

What we have here is a bunch of people who want Kerry to win and have no scruples, saying what they think it will take to make that happen (that includes Kranish and his editors).

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[cyncooper]

This is a pretty comprehensive article with several tidbits of new (to me, anyway) information, and it even mentions the plot in plain English right at the beginning.