Posted on 08/18/2004 2:58:40 PM PDT by Petronski
Formal Complaint Filed Over Senator’s Vietnam Awards, Post-Service Activities
(Washington, D.C.) – Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today filed a request with the U.S. Navy and the Defense Department for an investigation into the awards granted to Sen. John Kerry during his service with the U.S. Navy in Vietnam. Judicial Watch also requested that military authorities investigate Kerry’s anti-war activities, including his meeting with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations in Paris, while a member of the Naval Reserve.
Basing its requests on a recently published book, Unfit for Command, by former Navy officer John E. O’Neill and Harvard University professor Jerome R. Corsi, and on news media interviews of other officers and sailors who served with Kerry, Judicial Watch notes that unresolved allegations against Kerry include: false official reports and statements; dishonorable conduct; aiding the enemy; dereliction of duty; misuse and abuse of U.S. government equipment and property; war crimes; and multiple violations of U.S. Navy regulations and directives, the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the U.S. Code.
Kerry was awarded three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star for “wounds” received and actions in Vietnam, but eyewitnesses refute his version of a number of the events that were the basis for receiving the commendations. Judicial Watch is asking the Department of Defense and the U.S. Navy, including its Department Board of Decorations and Medals, to look into the circumstances surrounding Kerry’s awards.
Judicial Watch also is requesting an investigation of Kerry’s anti-war activities. After he was released from active duty but while he was a commissioned officer in the inactive Naval Reserve, Kerry joined the anti-war group Vietnam Veterans Against the War and traveled to Paris to meet with delegations from North Vietnam and the Communist Viet Cong. He held a press conference in Washington, D.C., following the meeting and advocated the “peace proposal,” which included war damage reparations, put forth by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong.
“The allegations concerning Kerry’s conduct during the Vietnam War are credible, serious and shocking,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The sooner an investigation begins, the better.”
this is HUGE
LOL!! Well, I see Klayman is gonna try and get him elected.
Pinglists please.
Like this will ever happen. Cynical? You bet!
I see a new candidate emerging from the democratic party.
Someone is needing to prime the cash-flow pump. ;-)
Can we say............."Ka-BOOM"?????
I wish JW would just butt out of this one.
Could someone please list the top three victories ever won by Judicial Watch?
Pretty pretty pretty!
FOX interviewed a pollster today (didn't get the name), and the pollster said there's a 27% increase in undecided voters voting for Bush because of the Swift Boat Vets ad.
The SBV are making another ad, too.
I agree. The word tainted comes to mind.
Why should they butt out?
Well, Well, Well...There IS a God.
Just watch Kerry's little rubberBand of Brothers snap to reality and start remembering that they don't want to hang with Kerry too, and jump ship.
This must be another attempt by the VRWC to demean the character of a fine upstanding democrat! (/sarcasm)
I gotta say I'm with you on this one niner. I don't see a dang thing happenin' to "Secret Agent Kerry".
Hey, maybe Larry's hiring.
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Yawn...
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