Well, I am glad you understand it, but this will get NO legs in the MSM until there is a USG Document specifically referring to what it might all be about. This is tantalizing,but the MSM has NO interest in connecting the dots on this...now, if this were about BUSH...
I agree, lots of potential here if there was a real press investigating this.
Records of the BCNR are not subject to release under the Freedom of Information Act because of the very nature of their purpose, which is the upgrade of a less than Honorable discharge to something higher, though I have seen upgrades from Other than Honorable to a General but not an Honorable.
Again, to get a dishonorable discharge, Kerry would have had to be convicted at a General Court Martial, which carries the weight of a felony conviction.
He may have earned a General or even an Other Than Honorable, though. A general is just that.....General, and no real shame attaches (unless, like Kerry, you claim great war hero status etc.). An Other Than Honorable is not good. You lose certain veteran's benefits and there is a taint to it.
But now, one of the media organs has officially Raised The Question.
So, the MSM whores will now have to deicide whether to get on the story or try to ignore it in which case somebody else might get on it.
As someone else pointed out earlier, once the Lewinski story made it out of the bottle, it couldn't be contained.
Ketchup Boy has a couple of problems with this... First of all, the fact is that he was not routinely granted an honorable discharge. He didn't get one until A Mysteriously Long Time Later. That in and of itself is not enough to force the MSM onto the playing field, but this latest tidbit of information certainly is. There is now some detectable smoke coming out of the barrel of the gun.
Second, he can now be legitimately asked about this - particularly after Limbaugh and a couple of others get ahold of it, which they will instantly. So at best, he's going to be quivering in his French lace panties with fear, hoping that his minders can keep anyone away from him who might raise that question.
Third... there have *got* to be people still alive who *know* the truth about this. Are the Naval staff who sat on the boards of inquiry into whatever "Activities" got him into a dubious state, still alive? Are they legally bound to secrecy? Are there other documents which might mysteriously leak??
However... and nevertheless... I wouldn't count on this to sink his sampan. It might, but don't forget that "Warped and Wandering Willy" got elected - and re-elected - despite having been an outright draft dodger, and despite the existence of his letters and other documents conclusively proving his duplicitiously evading the draft. Are the kreebots who voted for Willy, going to think these irregularities in Ketchup Boy's discharge are *worse* than what Willy did??
Don't wait for something to put Kerry out of action. We will have to do it ourselves. If you haven't volunteered for the Republican Party GOTV and election monitoring programs, do so NOW. Time's up.