Thomas Lipscomb says that the Boston Globe appears to be helping Senator Kerry keep a lid on some of his military records:

Now that the Boston Globe has in its possession what it claims are Kerry’s “full military and medical records” is the Globe ready to make these much-anticipated records available to the public? Managing Editor Mary Jane Wilkinson replied, “It is my understanding that Kerry will release these papers to anyone else now that he has signed the Form 180. The Boston Globe is not going to make available the papers we have received.”

But “the onus is on the Globe to explain why they are not releasing the records. They at least ought to give the public some reason,” according to former journalism dean and Fordham University Larkin professor Everette Dennis.

“With the opportunity to release the Kerry material on the internet inexpensively, there certainly is no physical problem preventing the Globe from publishing them,” Bill Gaines, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of Illinois, told me. “The decision they have made certainly doesn’t seem to be in the interest of their readers and not very good journalism.”

...Michael Kranish, the Globe reporter who wrote the front page story about receiving Kerry’s “complete medical and military records,” was not happy at being pursued by my questions about how he had made that determination. Kranish finally sent me the following: “The story speaks for itself. Other media have been given access to the same records, and the Kerry office has said it is accepting requests. Your request should go to them. That is our statement.” It sounds more like a response from a lawyer than a reporter.

And The Boston Globe made several calls to editors at the Chicago Sun-Times, complaining that I was giving them the kind of unpleasant treatment reporters give sources who stonewall on questions about matters they think are of vital public interest. They were right. I was. And those questions got the Globe to admit they had the SF-180 two days later.

All this would be mighty interesting if Kerry had been elected president. He wasn't, so I'd suspect his military and medical records are about as important as.... mine, or yours, or the guy down the street... (LOL, that's assuming your address is not something like 1608 Pennsylvania Ave. in DC.)

It continues to be interesting because he came frighteningly close to being elected president, he continues to run for president, he remains a United States Senator, and all of these games about his military records, aided and abetted by some of his friends in the press, continue to look Clintonian.

I can't believe I live in an America where this Kerry runs for President of the United States instead of occupying a cell in a Federal prison for treason. He treasonously slandered the US armed forces, worse still he slandered my family and my friends, none of whom were guilty of war crimes. In fact, just the opposite, they were heroes, unlike him. The fact he was even a candidate demeans us all.