The Washington Post has thrown an enormous amount of effort at truthing one of Kerry's citations, and comes away with conflicting stories. No surprise there. But has the paper begun a similar investigation into Kerry's extravagent claims about his cross-border derring-do in Cambodia?
To remind you: Kerry often and emphatically claimed to have been five miles into Cambodian waters on Christmas Eve, 1968, --most recently in a detailed account used in June 13, 2003 Boston Globe-- a claim his campaign recently recanted, but is now recycling as a "he was close to the border that night" story. One of Kerry's crew, Stephen Gardner, stated emphatically to me in an on air interview on August 10 (transcript in the archives of this blog) they were nowhere near Cambodia that night, and never went into Cambodia in all the time hew was on Kerry's boat, which was into January.
*Kerry told U.S.News and World Report --May 8, 2000 edition-- that he had run weapons to anticommunist forces in Cambodia. I verified that this is "exactly" what Kerry told the reporter.
*Kerry told the Washington Post in June of 2003 and the Los Angeles Times in June of 2004 that he took a CIA man into Cambodia on a secret mission, and kept his hat.
*Kerry's campaign has said he took commandos into Cambodia.
Against this backdrop of outlandish claims for which there is not one bit of public evidence in support, but for which there are many accounts and analyses