Kerry’s Form 180 Made Public

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Kerry’s Form 180 Made Public

By Rob on June 21, 2005 at 03:07 am

John Hinderaker at Powerline has a copy of the form, but none of the records. He's saying that to him it appears as though the form was properly filled out to release all records. Like Mr. Hinderaker I'm no expert on military records, but from the appearances of this form it would appear as though it would authorize the full release of Kerry's records.

The problem, of course, is that these records wend directly to "a reporter at the [Kerry friendly] Boston Globe" and nobody else.

So does this solve a thing as far as the questions about Kerry's service record go? No. But it does let Kerry say, in the future, that he did release all his records to the media and that there wasn't a problem. Which was the point of this whole exercise: To get the issue in the past so it wouldn't hurt future Kerry campaigns.

(via Wizbang)

Comments

Unfortunately for Kerry, an absence of facts does not equal a rebuttal.

There is a lot that Kerry has to account for, and not all of it would be addressable using an honestly invoked Form 180. If he were to execute a credible release of his documents, and assuming that there is nothing negative hiding in them, he could answer the question of his original discharge.

However, it would not clear up so many other questions about his record, such as multiple versions of his citations, the legality of his meeting with the enemy in 1970 and again in 1971 while a commissioned officer, lying on the Senate floor about being in Cambodia, his self-serving propaganda delivered to the Senate hearing, and many more. In fact, one could write a whole book on the question marks in Kerry’s past....

The problem for Kerry is that the facts simply aren’t on his side, and labeling the hundreds of fellow vets who called him out as liars eventually should run thin even for the most ardent Democratic political activist.

Like I said before, this guy simply has too many skeletons in his closet to be considered a serious candidate for President.

Carrick on June 21, 2005 at 07:06 am

I expect the Boston Globe to feel some pressue to release the records released to them as Kerry’s campain for ‘08 builds in a year or so.

I can’t believe how easy Kerry got off in the last election on this issue. Bush released EVERY document he could find (even some that were made up! ::cough:: ::Rather:: ::cough:. Kerry released basically nothing… How did that not become a larger issue, especially with Kerry’s entire creditial record resting on his military service…