Kerry's Disappearing Web Documents (FR Mentioned)

National Review ^ | July 22, 2004 | Jim Geraghty

[Peach]

KERRY'S SUDDENLY DISAPPEARING WEB DOCUMENTS

Various Kerry Spot readers are calling attention to the fact that the Kerry web site appears to have removed the press release that used to be here:

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0227a.html

But can still be seen in the Google cache here, and has been posted on the FreeRepublic.com discussion board here:

The date of the event is February 27, 2004. The event was a speech at UCLA about homeland security, mentioning port security and airline security.

Now, Kerry wouldn't need any secret documents from March 2000 to make a speech saying port and airline security should be improved in February 2004. So it's hard to buy the most sinister theories running around, that Kerry was using the classified documents to put together his homeland security policy proposals.

Unless, perhaps, the 2000 memo mentioned something about airport perimeter security and airliner's vulnerability to shoulder-fired missiles, and somehow that inspired Kerry release's plan to "increase perimeter inspections of U.S. airports and work with international aviation authorities to make sure the same standards are in place at all international airports. He will work with our allies to crackdown on the sale of shoulder-fired missiles that could be used in an attack on civilian aircraft, and are sold on the black market." But would Kerry really need a secret memo to think of that threat?

Either way, it is odd that this event appears to have been deleted from Kerry's web site.

UPDATE: Another reader wonders if the language in Kerry's speech in New Hampshire on December 17 or at UCLA is from the security memo. Well, if that could be proven, it would be pretty damning.

[Posted 07/21 10:50 PM]

[piasa]

Kerry's removed Wilson's stuff from his site too, apparently.

[longtermmemmory]

Kerry's entire section on homosexual acceptance has also been removed.

Is there a cache for that?

It had social secuirity for homosexuals
and federal recognition of all civil homosexuals unions for taxes and immigration.

[Holicheese]

"I'll be surprised if MoveOn.org doesn't move against us on Kerry's behalf "

Ok, Smitty you move up the middle 2nd squad you are with me, we do a pincers movement.......

[Al Simmons]

[exDemMom]

For example, every email has a unique ID number and somewhere out in the nether-regions, every email is cached.

What a terrible thought. All of those e-mails whose titles were way too embarrassing to read still exist out there, somewhere, even after I tried to give them a quick death.

[jocon307]

"I urge good spelling"

Well, now you are asking too much, at least more than I can give. As Maxwell Smart used to say "Sorry about that chief!"

[longfellow]

Why do we have to worry about these shoulder to air missles taking out an airliner, it's not like it happened under clintoons watch?

[Marshall1]

Sir..face(lol) to air missles...SAM's...

[longfellow]

if you want to get technical about it (LOL)! you launch them from your shoulder. Or is it soldier.

[talleyman]

The sharpe EYES beat the loose lips and the flip flops.

Moose lips sink ships.