[mcg1969]

Smart move, frankly. Without hard proof they're just opening themselves up for SERIOUS legal retribution.

[conservonator]

...damn...

[carrier-aviator]

Kerry's a public figure. He can't sue for libel. So, why the timidity from the Swifties?

[reagandemo]

[wildcatf4f3]

ping

[stopillegalimmigration]

Kerry lawyers must have threatened them like they did Sinclair. Unlike Iraqi missing explosives story leaked by IAEA with CBS, NYT, and DNC, they would not want a story to run prior to the elections that could hurt one of the candidates (unless of course it is GWB).

[Republican Red]

http://conservativevoice.blogspot.com/

Thursday, October 28, 2004
John Kerry's Dishonorable Discharge
Through a very reliable source, I received a copy of the following e-mail to Sean Hannity asking his help in exposing the truth about John Kerry's discharge papers from the US Navy. The author is a retired former Navy lawyer and he references the former personal lawyer to then Secretary of the Navy J. William Middendorf.

If these two gentlemen can shed light on the truth of John Kerry's record, then the American people have a right to know.


Subject: Fw: THE JIMMY CARTER LEGACY CONTINUES

Sean,

I was on active duty as a U.S. Navy lawyer when all of this was going on some 25 to 30 years ago, and so was Mark F. Sullivan, who at all relevant times was the personal lawyer to J. William Middendorf, then the Secretary of the Navy. We remember.

We are trying to break this absolutely true story nationwide, i.e., Fox News, C Span, and hopefully all the major networks. We are positive that John Kerry was one of those dishonorably dismissed from the Navy for collaborating with the Viet Cong, after he was released from active duty but still in the Navy, and for a totally unauthorized trip to Hanoi. He later got an "honorable" separation in 1978, some 12 years after joining the Navy, under President Carter's "Amnesty Program" for draft dodgers, deserters, and other malcontents who fled to Canada and Holland, among other places, to avoid military service to our country.

This is why he has refused, and continues to refuse, to release all of his Navy records: they reflect that he was Dishonorably Dismissed from the United States Naval Service. If they do not (which they do), he would have released them to the public. Again, he has not done so, because he well knows that the truth would kill his challenge to President Bush.

Sincerely,
DONALD L. NELSON
CAPT, JAGC, USNR
(Ret.)


Let's hope this story continues to develop

[js1138]

I don't think they would back down from lawsuits, but they to not want to have their reputation destroyed. If this is going to come out, it has to come out from the source of the information.

[lilylangtree]

Have already circulated far and wide.

[MineralMan]

First it was posted. Now the site has pulled the info and written a very careful notice that it was not posted officially.

Why? Because it was wrong or badly sourced. They're disowning the thing.

Don't look for this to reappear on their site.

[Ed_in_NJ]

bttt

[Yo-Yo]

My question is why would Kerry getting a less than honorable discharge matter to the voters? He admits to the Winter Soldier crap, he admits to being in Paris and meeting with the North Vietnamese, he admits to being actively anti-war. If he got a general discharge because of it, then had it reversed in 1978, so what?

If people don't care about the stuff he did (which apparently not enough people do), then they're not going to care what the Navy did in response.

This will have about the same legs as the "Viet Cong Directed VVAW Activities" had.