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Hentoff: Kerry in War Record Cover-up
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Posted on 08/23/2004 9:47:32 AM PDT by jbwbubba

Monday, Aug. 23, 2004 12:39 a.m. EDT Hentoff: Kerry in War Record Cover-up

Longtime civil libertarian and columnist for the left-wing Village Voice, Nat Hentoff charged Sunday that the Kerry campaign is engaged in a transparent cover-up of the Massachusetts Democrat's war record and an attempt to muzzle freedom of speech.

In an interview with WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg, Hentoff noted that the Pentagon has responded to a Washington Post Freedom of Information Act request for Kerry's full military file by turning over just six pages of their 100-plus page Kerry dossier, with a spokesman explaining that Kerry himself wouldn't authorized the release of the full file. Kerry has also refused to turn over diaries that the candidate kept during his Vietnam service, with the campaign insisting that an exclusive agreement with Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley for his 2003 book "Tour of Duty" prevents any further disclosure.

But Hentoff said he wasn't buying that excuse, telling Malzberg, "I have done biographies of John Cardinal O'Connor and A.J. Muste and I've never heard of that kind of agreement."

"The question is, what is Kerry trying to hide?" said the Village Voice writer. "He claims he's interested in the truth. If he's interested in the truth, then release the records."

Hentoff said he's astounded at the media's response to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, whose eyewitness accounts have catapulted the issue of Kerry's war record to the top of the campaign agenda.

"I can't recall ever seeing such distortion of the motivations and the witnessing of these more than 200 Vietnam veterans," he complained.

Of Kerry's efforts to muzzle the Swiftvets by threatening lawsuits against TV stations who carry their ads, Hentoff said, "This tells you something about how a President Kerry is going to handle dissent."

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KEYWORDS: coverup; hentoff; kerry; kerrysecrets; militaryrecord
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To: jbwbubba
Kerry himself wouldn't authorized the release of the full file.

Left wing integrity bump

21 posted on 08/23/2004 10:01:03 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: loboinok; WVNan

Lib hit on Kerry or not, it's hysterical.
What's even better, just run his own words of April 23 1971 against him:
[John Kerry testifying] From page 188 of the hearing record: "I realize that even my visits in Paris . . . in a sense are on the borderline of private individuals negotiating, et cetera. I understand these things."

18 U.S.C. Section 953 says the above is a felony.
He's also, thence being a felon, barred from the office of President.
And that's putting this lightly.
Since he was Navy Reserve's version of IRR at the time of visiting Paris, he was in violation of military uniform code and thus committing treason.
Either way you look at it, he's toast if the info gets legs.


22 posted on 08/23/2004 10:01:06 AM PDT by Darksheare (If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he still taste like chicken?)
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To: jbwbubba

Wow!

The Village Voice holds Michael Moore as a hero. This is one of those stories you read and then look out the window to see the pigs flying by.


ABC's THe Note also had this

—If John Kerry can't build a campaign organization that can de-fang 250 guys spending a million bucks, how good a president could he possibly be?


23 posted on 08/23/2004 10:02:03 AM PDT by Republican Red (quot)
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To: mlbford2

Agree.....Clintonista's at work. When Kerry loses they will blame the GOP of course.....:o)


24 posted on 08/23/2004 10:02:15 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: L.N. Smithee
Nat Hentoff is the kind of liberal I would be proud to call a friend.

He still alive?

25 posted on 08/23/2004 10:03:42 AM PDT by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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To: jbwbubba

The left?


26 posted on 08/23/2004 10:05:02 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: jbwbubba
Longtime civil libertarian and columnist for the left-wing Village Voice, Nat Hentoff charged Sunday that the Kerry campaign is engaged in a transparent cover-up of the Massachusetts Democrat's war record and an attempt to muzzle freedom of speech.

BTTT

27 posted on 08/23/2004 10:06:10 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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bttt


28 posted on 08/23/2004 10:06:38 AM PDT by Talking_Mouse (Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just... Thomas Jefferson)
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To: jbwbubba

Et tu, Hillare?


29 posted on 08/23/2004 10:06:40 AM PDT by rudypoot
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To: jbwbubba
to be yelled from the rooftops...
 
Of Kerry's efforts to muzzle the Swiftvets by threatening lawsuits against TV stations who carry their ads, Hentoff said, "This tells you something about how a President Kerry is going to handle dissent."

30 posted on 08/23/2004 10:10:07 AM PDT by backinthefold (No, I wasn't actually in Cambodia at Christmas, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night)
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To: jbwbubba
Pentagon has responded to a Washington Post Freedom of Information Act request for Kerry's full military file by turning over just six pages of their 100-plus page Kerry dossier, with a spokesman explaining that Kerry himself wouldn't authorized the release of the full file.

sounds like the WaPo has grounds to file a FOI suit rather then a request at this point. They did try to get his record. Give them credit. The WaPo still has some shred of dignity left.
31 posted on 08/23/2004 10:14:21 AM PDT by Belisaurius ("Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, Ted" - Joseph Kennedy 1958)
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To: jbwbubba
My Favorite post for dims and trolls
who slither in here each day.
And the Lame Stream media
who find the real news on Free Republic,
then rewrite and spin the truth.


ATTN : ABC CBS CNN FOX NBC
William B. Rood was not actually ON Kerry's boat.


Exposing Kerry's Vietnam "record"
WITHOUT
mention of Swift Boat Vets Thread


Mommy Heinz!
Help!


Look what the Washington Post said on 8/21/04

"Although Kerry campaign officials insist that they have published Kerry's full military records on their Web site (with the exception of medical records shown briefly to reporters earlier this year), they have not permitted independent access to his original Navy records. A Freedom of Information Act request by The Post for Kerry's records produced six pages of information. A spokesman for the Navy Personnel Command, Mike McClellan, said he was not authorized to release the full file, which consists of at least a hundred pages. "

Look! What the Harvard Crimson wrote about me in 1970

Published on Wednesday, February 18, 1970
John Kerry: A Navy Dove Runs for Congress
By SAMUEL Z. GOLDHABER
Crimson Staff Writer

"...One time Kerry was ordered to destroy a Viet Cong village
but disobeyed orders and suggested that the Navy Command
simply send in a Psychological Warfare team to be
friend the villagers with food, hospital supplies,
and better educational facilities."



Now my shipmates on the
USS GRIDLEY CG-21
are attacking me.

Click Here Mommy
and see what
the USS GRIDLEY crew say.


They say I told lies in Tour of Duty
GRIDLEY CREW ARE LIKE
SWIFT BOAT VETS MEANIES!

Mommy : People can get
MY real book here, right now, online FREE!!

I'm so proud of it!
The New Soldier,
By John Kerry
and Vietnam Veterans
Against the War



Mommy : Please don't be mad
about my hero Al Hubbard.

Head of Kerry's Vietnam Vets Against the War was Vietnam Vet phony
"Many of the stories were later shown to be fictional. Other so-called Vietnam veterans, such as the executive secretary of VVAW, Al Hubbard, a self-styled poet ("See what you've become, Amerika," ends one of his Vietnam odes),
turned out to have no record of service in Vietnam."



Mommy : Why does McCain
still campaign with Bush?
Mommy : Why doesn't Al Gore defend me?
He is a Vietnam Vet.

Mommy : Did Hillary
"leak" FBI Files on me?
I even used her famous slogan?


"Kerry entered and abandoned Vietnamese village and slaughtered domestic animals
owned by the civilians and burned down their homes with his Zippo lighter."




It only takes one idiot to raze a village!
(My original response!)


Mommy : Where is Ted Kennedy?




32 posted on 08/23/2004 10:14:38 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Hanoi Jane and Hanoi Kerry sitting in a tree, sitting in a tree F-R-E-N-C-H-I-N-G)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Gotta love this stuff!


33 posted on 08/23/2004 10:17:16 AM PDT by Darksheare (If a tree fell on a mime in the forest, would he still taste like chicken?)
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To: mlbford2
Hillary's Reichstadt is now engaged Will we be shocked, shocked I ask you when we read of Kerrys arkanside?
34 posted on 08/23/2004 10:17:46 AM PDT by SF Republican
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To: Conservative_boy_in_Bangkok

Hentioff may be a lib, but he's an honest one. I like to read his work because I respect him. I many times don't agree with him, but he argues honestly. No cool-aid drinker he! Good for him.


35 posted on 08/23/2004 10:20:11 AM PDT by twigs
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To: mlbford2

More like an updated Project Phoenix, overseen by Hillary...


36 posted on 08/23/2004 10:20:46 AM PDT by astounded
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To: astounded
This is the BEST "Bang for your political buck" - EVER!

Click the logo to donate to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.


37 posted on 08/23/2004 10:21:39 AM PDT by Chieftain (Support the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and expose Hanoi John's FRAUD!)
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To: L.N. Smithee

Bump!


38 posted on 08/23/2004 10:23:49 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: Conservative_boy_in_Bangkok

It's called eating your own.


39 posted on 08/23/2004 10:24:47 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: jbwbubba
This article has been posted to DoctorZin’s New News Blog!


40 posted on 08/23/2004 10:24:53 AM PDT by DoctorZIn (Until they are Free, "We shall all be Iranians!")
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