Linda stays on target this Tuesday with another call to examine Kerry's 180.

Come on John. The Globe says the records you authorized to be released were pretty much the same ones they already had. The Navy said they had over 100 pages they could not release without your authorization.

Inquiring minds want to know, John, what type of discharge did you get, John, and how did that discharge change after Carter pardoned all draft dodgers and traitors to this country?

It's been twenty-five days since you said you signed it John Kerry, twenty-five days since you said we could see it. We want to see it, John. Where is your 180?? Show it to us.

Beldar demands that the Globe, having received the 180 and accompanying documents, should make them available online.

The Boston Globe should immediately post all the records, and the signed Standard Form 180, as .pdf scans on their website.

Captain Ed spells it out in detail.

Michael Kranish, who wrote unquestioning articles about Kerry's service in Viet Name before and during the presidential campaign, proclaims that the release vindicates Kerry -- but even Kranish can't add up why Kerry kept the file secret...

...Kranish then goes on to describe several commendations and memos of praise. Interestingly, though, Kranish remains silent on several points of controversy that the secrecy of the files helped stoke. Namely, Kranish doesn't mention anything about Kerry's discharge, and why it took him until 1978 to get it, while he quit serving in 1972. He doesn't mention any assignment or attachment to an intelligence unit that would corroborate his later explanations of Christmas In Cambodia or gun-running to the Khmer Rouge. Kranish also doesn't reveal anything about the timeline of events or command assignments that would answer whether he tried to steal part of Tedd Peck's service record in order to provide cover for David Alston to lie about their time together during the political campaign.

Posted by Michael at June 14, 2005 10:59 AM