They may not take it away from Kerry but there is no way everything is on the up and up with the three citations. Kerry was a sitting senator when all this "tinkering" went on. Either all of the back-up paperwork regarding the requests for changes to the citation is readily available in the Navy Archives, or, Kerry was doing something 'under the table' with someone on the inside. I can't imagine that a request for a change, from a US Senator, to a decades old SS citation would have been handled as a routine matter.
The findings of the investigation will be interesting.
Semper Fi
I agree it appears there has been some tinkering with kerry's citations.
Is it possible Lehmann was in on this? I seem to remember him being rather harsh in his comments on GHW Bush and GWB.