Thursday, June 09, 2005

Did Kerry really release Navy records?

So, Kerry's must be covering something up. For a month he claimed to have signed the form, but then it turned out he hadn't mailed it. He's spent years trying to figure out how to have it both ways, again: signing the form without actually disclosing any information.

Chicago Sun Times:
There is nothing magic about signing a SF 180,' said former Naval Judge Advocate General Mark Sullivan. 'It is sort of like your checkbook. You can fill out a check for one dollar or a million. It is the same check form.'

'And the Globe story says Kerry sent it to the Navy Personnel Command, which is only a limited storage location. So it is not surprising that the Globe then notes that what they received was largely 'duplication' of records previously released. The Navy Personnel Command primarily stores a subset of service records rather than a person's full military records. There is no doubt there are a lot of after-action records missing from what Kerry has released,' said Sullivan.

Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has already found a discrepancy confirmed by the Department of the Navy of 'at least a hundred pages' missing from those already disclosed by Kerry.

So how an SF 180 is filled out is as important as signing it. But no one in the press has yet claimed to have seen a copy of Kerry's SF-180. When asked if she had a copy of Kerry's SF 180, the Globe's Managing Editor Mary Jane Wilkinson said, 'I haven't seen it, and I don't know if anyone here has.'

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