[A Jovial Cad]

Looks like someone was awful anxious to prevent information about a certain, ahem, "war hero" seeing the light of day, *at least this year*. Or until Nov. 3rd, anyway.

[weegee]

Wonderful thing about this new "must excerpt" policy...

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[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I think the author staged this stuff to get more publicity for the book he will be writing.

[holyscroller]

This is an old story. I read it acouple weeks ago. The stuff stolen was all acquired by Freedom of Information Requests, and could be replaced (or easily re-acquired) with little effort. I'd put my money on the fact that Kerry operatives took the files (if indeed they were ever even taken), to stop the truth from getting out of exactly how he did get those medals. However you can bet the crooked media and the Lyin Libs will try to make this into a Republican Watergate. For all we know, there never was a theft. This could just as easily be a contrived story op to make the Republicans look bad. This story doesn't pass the sniff test.

[yazd]

Once a FOIA request has been granted, anyone can write to the same agency and request a copy of the file which was released to the first party (and pay whatever the copying charges are). I myself have done this with DOJ.

Therefore, since the files are legally available to all comers, friend and foe alike, it makes little sense to commit a crime by stealing them, regardless of whether one is motivated to see what is in them, or to hide them from others.

One thing that might be accomplished by stealing them that could not as easily be accomplished by ordering a copy is to draw immediate attention to them in the press. In that case one needs to ask .. cui bono? Who would be willing to take this risk ... and for what gain?

[bayourod]

"My hunch is that Republicans did this," he said last week.

I concur. Republicans wanted to prevent any anti-Kerry information being made public until after he is the official Democrat nominee.

Republicans are terrified of Kerry being exposed in time for another candidate to replace him.

[Savage Beast]

"Well don't look at me..."
~Hillary~

[The Raven]

ping

[arthurus]

It cannot be another "watergate" because Dan Rather will not intone about it evening after evening.

[dalebert]

This story is old and the police could find no evidence of forced entry. Also, Kerry's people tooks some of the records prior to claims of break in. The records did not include Kerry's military records so we still don't know what his purple heart injuries were.