It's preposterous that he was in VN for five years. He used his lie as the basis to slam Bush, so he's fair game.
If I claimed that I was a police investigator in your town for five years, and I knew you were the town drunk and beat your wife, but as a cop I used another name back then.... And I can't tell anyone what my name was back then....
Would you mind if AP new reporters ran my "story," without checking my bona fides?
This creep has stolen the valor and honor of real VN SEALs, in order to slam Bush.
Tough luck if he gets slammed back.
Is it? In the Navy? On tour in a combat zone? Also, he didn’t claim he “knew” anything, certainly not in an official capacity like your silly analogy. He had an opinion, and calmed a valor that’s in doubt, but not yet disproved. Innocent until guilty is a fundamental principle of freedom.