Regretably, the Bush administration has shown a consistent urge to cover up for the Democrats--certainly for the clintons, but also for kerry. Can anyone doubt that if the shoe were on the other foot and clinton were still in office, he would have managed to leak his oponents' records to the press? He did so with Linda Tripp's records at the Pentagon.
I don't know why on earth the Bush administration would want to scrub kerry's records, but it would not surprise me if they did. I can't imagine Kerry agreeing to release these records unless he has some assurance that they won't hurt him.
I think the talk of "scrubbing" the records a bit on the paranpid side. You can't demand he release them and then say even if he does they'll be fake and remain credible.
Once he signs the form, a FOIA request is all it takes to make them public.
And since his opponents have a lot to gain if--as we all think they are harmful to him--I'd be surprised if the press remains silent.