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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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coverup; hentoff; kerry; kerrysecrets; militaryrecord
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To: mlbford2
Hillary's Reichstadt is now engaged.

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"I said I wouldn't run, and I really mean it.
I'm not going to run."

Hillary Rodham Clinton
(cnn.com)



Click here to check out my web site dedicated to exposing Hillary.


41 posted on 08/23/2004 10:25:24 AM PDT by christie (http://www.hillaryforpresident-2008.com -- NOT!)
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To: astounded

Yep, there are a lot of folks around that are convinced in their minds that Hillary has called her lib media contacts and given them "Weapons Free" clearance to engage and open fire on Kerry? Have you also noticed that since this has graduated from a blogosphere debate and worked its way into the MSM --- the coverage is gradually turning far less favorable for Kerry?

Almost like an unseen hand turning up the heat under a pot of water on the stove? Is it Kerry soup yet?


42 posted on 08/23/2004 10:30:30 AM PDT by Barnstormer
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To: jbwbubba

Way to go, Nat!


43 posted on 08/23/2004 10:41:39 AM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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To: Right_in_Virginia
"This tells you something about how a President Kerry is going to handle dissent."

Say it again - and again - and again...

44 posted on 08/23/2004 10:50:37 AM PDT by talleyman (John Kerry: The Manurian Candidate - he's seared - no, stir-fried - no, poached - no, flambeed!)
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To: jbwbubba; All
To read the latest on the Franchurian Candidate's bizzare exploits, click the picture, goto "last," and work backwards:

If you would like to help the Swift Boat Vets ( as I have, and I urge all to do-- even a few dollars will help ) kindly click on this logo:


If, perchance, the top "click the pic" link is not visible, click here:

-John Kerry- some selected, informative links...--

45 posted on 08/23/2004 11:08:00 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trackball into the Sunset...)
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To: loboinok
and Kerry will wish he had saved one of those grenades.

With all due respect, with Kerry being a sailor, I'm not sure he'd have been issued any grenades, or even trained with them in boot camp.

Now Max Cleland -- there's a guy that knows about grenades!

46 posted on 08/23/2004 11:10:08 AM PDT by Condor51 (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. -- Gen G. Patton Jr)
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To: SuziQ

Nat Hentoff is a liberal who also happens to have integrity. He's been around the block a few times, and knows when he's being scammed, by phonies of any calling. Some of the younger "intelligentsia" of the fourth estate who aspire to being journalists someday might try to learn from him.


47 posted on 08/23/2004 11:16:30 AM PDT by Big Digger (If you can keep your head when others are losing theirs, you must be a Republican)
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To: jbwbubba

RELEASE ALL THE RECORDS, Sen. KERRY!!!!


48 posted on 08/23/2004 11:17:21 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: jbwbubba

RELEASE ALL THE RECORDS, Sen. KERRY!!!!


49 posted on 08/23/2004 11:17:37 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: jbwbubba
This is bizarre. Right now, all the liberals have are the courts and the media. If they use the courts to suppress a publication, they're likely to lose the favor of the media.

You would think a fellow famed for his nuance capacity would know better. I guess we have misoverestimated him.

50 posted on 08/23/2004 11:19:49 AM PDT by Graymatter (Bring it on, from Democratic "cut it out, waaaaaah")
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To: jbwbubba

Another Kerry/Dim lie? Kerry did NOT keep/write "war diaries" during his Vietnam service, if what I read correct.

IIRC, Brinkley stated that the "diaries" were written some time later, between when Kerry returned, and when he let Brinkley use them for his book.

Wouldn't that make them a "memoir" rather than a "document"? Wouldn't that invalidate them as a factual source?

I just spent several minutes trying to find it, but couldn't locate the correct article. So much BS; so little time.

Anyone else remember reading this?


51 posted on 08/23/2004 11:51:34 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
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To: jbwbubba

In a way I'm not surprised, Hentoff is one of the few remaining honest men on the left. He's pro-life, for reasons someone with leftist secular commitments ought to honor if they had any intellectual honesty at all--a fact which maddens many on the left.


52 posted on 08/23/2004 11:51:53 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was)
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To: jbwbubba

The sKerry campaign is the most secretive organization this country has ever seen!


53 posted on 08/23/2004 12:09:48 PM PDT by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (Jean Fraude Kerrí pour le Presidenté--Non!)
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To: L.N. Smithee
Nat Hentoff is the kind of liberal I would be proud to call a friend.

Only if he truly supports the WHOLE Bill of Rights, including the 2nd Amendment as an INDIVIDUAL right.

54 posted on 08/23/2004 12:12:16 PM PDT by 45Auto (Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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To: jbwbubba

The hard Left has already excommunicated Hentoff for criticizing Bill Clinton, so I'm not sure this will have much impact. Still, it's good to hear.


55 posted on 08/23/2004 12:12:51 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves
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To: Conservative_boy_in_Bangkok

Speaking of liberal organizations, where is the ACLU on this one? Have they even issued a statement about this?


56 posted on 08/23/2004 12:17:27 PM PDT by Bernard (Let Freedom Reign)
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To: jbwbubba
6 out of 100 pages were released and Kerry has refused to authorize the other 94. Wow!!!! And the WP actually made note of it on Aug 21, 2004.

Every day I read something new on this board that just takes my breathe a way.

57 posted on 08/23/2004 12:18:09 PM PDT by hawkaw
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