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SBD · Admiral Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Posts: 1022

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/9/21/21736.shtml

Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2004 2:16 a.m. EDT
Navy Launches Second Kerry Medal Probe

The U.S. Navy has launched a new probe into Sen. John Kerry's Silver Star citation, after the Navy Secretary whose signature appears on the document said he never signed the award.

"It is a total mystery to me," former Navy Secretary John Lehman told the Chicago Sun-Times in August. "I never saw it. I never signed it. I never approved it. And the additional language it contains was not written by me," he complained.

The Lehman document is the last of three versions of Kerry Silver Star citation that have been posted to Kerry's campaign website.

On Friday, Navy Inspector General Adm. R. A. Route closed out a superficial probe into the circumstances of Kerry's war decorations; one that verified only that appropriate procedures were followed when the commendations were issued.

But Monday's New York Post reported: "Lehman's disavowal of citation No. 3 has prompted a separate investigation."

Word of the second Kerry medals probe comes as complaints escalate over the top Democrat's refusal to authorize the release of his full military file.

Last week he told radio host Don Imus that all the Navy records he had in his possession had been posted to the campaign web site.

But Imus never asked why Kerry hadn't signed Form 180, which would authorize the release of nearly 100 pages from his military file which remain under seal.

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I hope they really do look into this and not let any politics play into it.
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Chuck Z Ombie AC2000 · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 8:13 am Post subject:

I read yesterday's post and i didnt see any mention of that. I think Newsmax might be 'exaggerating' again.
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mangdawg · Lt.Jg. Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 116

i'm betting they cover their a** 'til after the elections. they don't wanna bite the hand that might be feeding them.
after he loses it'll be a different story tho

I B Squidly · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 8:33 am Post subject:

If Kerry loses I'd imagine the administration would consider that humiliation enough and curtail futher investigations. Certainly the Dems would scream it was a dirty Republican piling on.

stevieboy · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:54 pm Post subject:

OK, the dumb question: Lehmen was SECNAV from '81-'87. Why would he sign Kerry's citation if Kerry got out of the Nav in '71?

Can I go back and change some of my awards? I've always wanted to blow up an enemy pill box or two.

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IFF Beacon · Seaman Recruit Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 8

.....way to go SBD!.....

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THE MYSTERIES OF JOHN KERRY'S WAR RECORD

By JOHN HINDERAKER, SCOTT JOHNSON & EDWARD MORRISSEY

Lehman, moreover, insists that he never signed the third citation nor wrote the additional language.

On Friday, the Navy inspector general concluded, following an investigation prompted by a Judicial Watch request, that the proper procedure had been followed in the processes initially used to approve Kerry's medals and the officers involved had proper authority to approve the awards.

But Adm. R. A. Route's probe didn't address any qualitative review of Kerry's awards, and Lehman's disavowal of citation No. 3 has prompted a separate investigation.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09202004/postopinion/opedcolumnists/30540.htm