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So When Do We Get To See Them?

According to this story (which points out that John Kerry is not the brilliant student that his mythology implies--his grades were actually slightly worse than Dubya's), Kerry has released his military records to the Boston Globe, which reports:

The military and medical records, however, appear identical to what Kerry has already released.

There's a follow-up more specifically on it here:

The records, which the Navy Personnel Command provided to the Globe, are mostly a duplication of what Kerry released during his 2004 campaign for president, including numerous commendations from commanding officers who later criticized Kerry's Vietnam service.

Recall, however, that this was the same Boston Globe that was one of the last holdouts in attempts to prop up the Dan Rather documents as genuine, misquoting an expert to do so. Note also that the second piece is by Michael Kranish, one of those "unbiased" Globe reporters who had close ties to the Kerry campaign.

We of course don't know if these are the complete records, or another selective release, as the first one was (though the article states that they were provided by the Navy). Pardon me if I'd prefer to make the judgement myself, or at least have a few other bloggers, like Powerline, etc., check them out, before I'll give him a clean bill of health. What, for example, do they say about his discharge status? How do the rest of us get a document dump from the Navy?

[Update a couple minutes later]

Michelle Malkin has more, with other links.

Posted by Rand Simberg at June 07, 2005 07:09 AM

Comments

Dude, you guys won. Let it go.

Posted by Bill White at June 7, 2005 07:37 AM

Dude, you guys won. Let it go.

No.

Okay, yes, it's like kicking a man when he's down. Except this man made promises, assertions, and staked his credibility on matters in records that he then refused to allow to be made public.

Let it stand as an object lesson for people - Right or Left - who try the same stunt.

Posted by Brian Dunbar at June 7, 2005 09:03 AM

There's also this - Kerry is making no secret about his ambition to run again in 2008, and he is talking about impeaching Bush. He's fair game.

Posted by Larry J at June 7, 2005 10:36 AM

These are MSM sources that are reporting this. I don't trust MSM, neither should you. We cannot believe these reports.

Posted by Timothy Barash at June 7, 2005 11:32 AM

I noticed this from the story:
The military and medical records appear identical
Also
are mostly a duplication of what Kerry released during his 2004 campaign for president, including numerous commendations from commanding officers who later criticized Kerry's Vietnam service.
Appear? Mostly? Weasel words in case they aren't identical?
I just don't trust them very much.
Also notice the dig at his "commanding officers who later criticized..."
I really don't trust them. They're still carrying water for him.
I'll believe it when he releases his records. He never said he would only release them to the Globe.
I don't trust the Globe. This looks to me like a way of being able to claim he released them without anybody except for the sycophants at the Globe actually seeing them.

Posted by Veeshir at June 7, 2005 11:35 AM

Don't trust anybody! ANYBODY!

Posted by Timothy Barash at June 7, 2005 12:09 PM


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