Square this Vietnam Veterans Against the War statement by John Kerry to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations in April of 1971, with the following:
[S]ix staff members on the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs who were charged with investigating intelligence reports...drew an obvious conclusion: "that American prisoners of war have been held continuously after Operation Homecoming and remain[ed] in captivity in Vietnam and Laos as late as 1989." [The investigators were for technical reasons using live-sighting reports that extended only through 1989.]
The conclusion, however, was not welcomed by the DIA, or even by most members of the Senate Committee....John Kerry, the committee chairman, told one of the investigators that if the report ever leaked out, "you'll wish you'd never been born." Senator Kerry wants to normalize relations with Vietnam. When the briefing was over, Frances Zwenig, the committee staff director, ordered that all copies of the investigators' report be destroyed. article
Of course, it might not be true.
Old John Skull & Bones Kerry could be a straight-up kind of guy, and that report could be a lie. (It is a 1994 report, not a current campaign smear.)
Monday, January 19, 2004
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