Yeah, I posted that here.
Doesn't mention a sitting Senator. I still have the entire deleted thread. Doesn't mention a sitting Senator/former Navy Sec anywhere.
Do you have a link to any other thread mentioning this sitting Senator?
Presumptively this referrs to John Warner, who would most likely have been the SecNav when Kerry was supposed to have received his discharge.
But a SecNav seldom is up to speed on the discharge of every LtJG who musters out on his watch.
But, Kerry called a lot of attention to himself in ways quite inconsistant with his standing as a commissioned officer, so the situation might have been a point of discussion and notice by SecNav.
Secretaries of the Navy from 1969
Paul R. Ignatius...............................1 Sep 1967 - 24 Jan 1969
John H. Chafee...............................31 Jan 1969 - 4 May 1972
John W. Warner.............................4 May 1972 - 8 Apr 1974
J. William Middendorf....................8 Apr 1974 - 20 Jan 1977
W. Graham Claytor, Jr...................14 Feb 1977 - 24 Aug 1979
Edward Hidalgo..............................24 Oct 1979 - 20 Jan 1981
John Lehman..................................5 Feb 1981 - 10 Apr 1987
James H. Webb............................. 1 May 1987 - 23 Feb 1988
William L. Ball............................... 28 Mar 1988 - 15 May 1989
Henry L. Garrett III........................15 May 1989 - 26 Jun 1992
Daniel Howard (Acting)..................26 Jun 1992 - 7 July 1992
Sean O'Keefe.................................2 Oct 1992 - 20 Jan 1993
ADM Frank B. Kelso, II (Acting).. 2 Jan 1993 - 21 Jul 1993
John H. Dalton...............................22 Jul 1993 - 16 Nov 1998
Richard Danzig...............................16 Nov 1998 - 20 Jan 2001
Robert B. Pirie, Jr.(acting)...............20 Jan 2001 - 24 May 2001
Gordon R. England.........................24 May 2001 to present
I guess that the assumption is that it's John Warner, since he would have been the relevant Sec. of the Navy.
Do a search for Senator Warner. I will tell you though that you will find no reference to Sen. Warner having told anyone that Kerry recieved any particular kind of discharge for obvious reasons.
I respect the fact that you have the original thread - I do not doubt your word. However Powerline seems to also be quoting directly from the thread in question. Members at Swiftvets do have the ability to edit posts and it is possible that the comments Powerline quoted were edited out prior to your having seen the thread - I just don't know.
For my part, I'm simply putting two and two together from what I know has been discussed at Swiftvets and the Powerline blog. Hence my having qualified my original post in this thread with the words "My guess is...".