Kerry, Assassinations, Lies and Watergate

just so i get the gist of this story.....

1. Kerry attends an 1971 meeting of Vietnam Veterans Against the War [VVAW], where the assassination of pro war senators takes place:
"Combing through the papers, Mr Nicosia found the startling document, dating from November 1971. It said that Mr Kerry took part in the VVAW meeting in Kansas, at which the assassination of pro-war senators was openly discussed before being rejected as a tactic."

2. Kerry subsequently goes on in politics...speed ahead to 2004 and Kerry knows nothing:
"Campaign aides have repeatedly denied that Mr Kerry attended the Kansas meeting, claiming that the senator left the VVAW in July 1971. Other VVAW members have offered conflicting accounts. Randy Barnes, the organiser of the Kansas City chapter, initially said that Mr Kerry did attend, but later claimed that he may have confused the Kansas meeting with one in St Louis.

"Senator Kerry does not remember attending the Kansas City meeting," said a Kerry campaign spokesman. Yet aides now acknowledge that the FBI records indicate that he was, indeed, present."

3. Only after Democratic operatives are tipped off to the fact that a journalist, Gerald Nicosia, has FBI documents proving such a meeting took place with Kerry present, the documents go missing..or more accurately, are stolen:
"The only items missing, Mr Nicosia realised, were three box files of politically-charged documents. They looked unexceptional but were filled with FBI surveillance records on a Vietnam veteran and anti-war activist by the name of John Kerry.

Mr Nicosia believes that the burglars were seeking papers that link Senator Kerry - the Democratic presidential candidate - to a controversial meeting of anti-Vietnam War activists in the early 1970s"

The funniest part? the journalists thinks that ......republicans stole the documents! why? because they were afraid of this? hardly. what an idiot. any kerry schmoe would see the danger . as 90% of all journalists are democrats, i'd say this one has wishful thinking about the burglers identities....there is no motive for the gop to do this. if anything, they want this information out there.....

the best part of the story is at the end...the burglers missed one crucial document:

"Mr Nicosia, it appears, had stumbled on the truth - which is more than the burglars managed to do. Despite rifling through most of the historian's papers, and removing three box files, they failed to find the Kansas documents.

"They were still up by the photocopier," Mr Nicosia said, "away from the rest of the boxes. The three files that were taken were from 1976 to 1977, and the burglars also took bookmarked sheaves of files which were lying on the kitchen table."
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wow. you don't suspect an organization whose leader has plotted assassinations of american senators (and lied about it) would be so devious, do you? nnnnaaaaaaahhhhhh!