Now, "the Kerry camp is thinking about filing a libel lawsuit against Regnery and O'Neill," a source close to the candidate's inner circle tells PAGE SIX. "I don't know if they will actually go forward, but consideration is serious. If Kerry plans on running again in 2008 — and I'm hearing he will — it would make sense that he'd file the suit."
Kerry's rep, David Wade, said he hadn't heard about any proposed lawsuit, but promised to look into it.
"It would be a lot smarter of Kerry to just apologize," O'Neill told PAGE SIX. "No lawsuits are going to change the testimony he gave and the impact it had on POWs."
O'Neill, who is now a lawyer in Houston, says he has not heard from the Kerry camp, but will defend himself against any legal action. O'Neill, who charged that Kerry faked his wounds and won his medals under false pretenses, says he won't write another book if Kerry runs in 2008, but will definitely campaign against him again.
O'Neill...'just another lawyer in Houston'. Not in this universe. John O'Neill is one 800 pound gorilla...clerked for Scalia, I think. First in his lawschool class, too. Can't remember which school, but it has more stature than Kerry's law degree from B.C. (sorry, B.C.). O'Neill must be licking his chops. The truth is that Americans have the most generous of hearts. We, well, a few of us, would have forgiven Kerry if he'd apologized on the floor of the senate years ago. But this was impossible because in the words of David Horowitz...'Kerry has an extremely bad character'. We really did dodge a bullet this time.