He said he was there and witnessed events personally. I'll ask again - Do you have a link to his affidavit or any quotes from it?
Do you know that he attested to his being there or are you relying on a newspaper account of what's in his affidavit?
You make some pretty bold assertions about his committing perjury but you haven't backed any of them up yet.
You make some pretty bold assertions about his committing perjury but you haven't backed any of them up yet.
I assert that he has confessed to making accusations under sworn affadavit when he only offers hearsay accounts. And that is very serious for an attorney. It has to do with public trust that court documents filed by attorneys are truthful.
Given how ignorant some of you are about this story, you do understand that this is one of the Swifties who appeared in the original Swiftie ad?
He's the one who says, "He is lying about his record." And in his supporting 3-page affadavit of July 21, French states Kerry has "wildly exaggerated and lied about his record in Vietnam."
But French didn't serve in combat with Kerry. And that is what this is all about. It appears he met him casually while they were in Vietnam but they didn't serve together. French instead relies on the accounts of three other Swifties he knew and he simply repeated the things they said, not things he saw himself. This is not about the other Swifties or whether they are telling the truth. It's about French lying in a sworn statement about whether he was in combat with Kerry.
French has nothing but hearsay.
Of course, I'm sure none of this matters to any of you but you can trace how this story involves Oregon particularly. Rassman is from there. So is another important Kerry vet supporter. And French.
This story has been running and building up in Oregon (default Kerry state) since last winter. If reading isn't too much of a strain, try looking here for a little more info:
The Oregonian:
Vietnam vets battle over Kerry