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Liar, Liar, pants on fire
Via Lucianne:A Vietnam veteran who said he remembers John Kerry participating in a 1971 Kansas City meeting at which an assassination plot was discussed says an official with the Kerry presidential campaign called him this month and pressured him to change his story. The veteran, John Musgrave, says he was called twice by the head of Veterans for Kerry, John Hurley, while a reporter for the Kansas City Star worked on a follow-up piece to a New York Sun article about the November 1971 meeting of Vietnam Veterans Against the War at which a plot to kill U.S. senators was voted down. Asked by The New York Sun if he felt pressured, Mr. Musgrave said, âIn the second call I did.â Mr. Musgrave said Mr. Hurley said Mr. Kerry had told him âhe was definitely not in Kansas City.â According to Mr. Musgrave, Mr. Hurley said, âWhy donât you refresh your memory and call that reporter back?â A spokesman for Mr. Kerryâs presidential campaign, David Wade, last week issued a statement to the Sun, following a week of denials, that said âwe acceptâ Mr. Kerryâs presence in Kansas City as a âhistorical footnote.â By then, the recollections of six witnesses, along with minutes and FBI records, placed Mr. Kerry at the Kansas City meeting. But the news of the calls from the campaign to Mr. Musgrave may move the episode from what the campaign is describing as a âhistorical footnoteâ to a matter that involves the contemporary behavior of Mr. Kerry and his campaign.... Posted by: Anonymous2U 2004-03-24 |
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