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Courage to scrutinize - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - November 15, 2004: "Moreover, in a front-page Aug. 22 Washington Post story, reporter Michael Dobbs noted, as Mr. O'Neill often has, that 'although Kerry campaign officials insist that they have published Kerry's full military records on their Web site (with the exception of medical records shown briefly to reporters earlier this year), they have not permitted independent access to his original Navy records.' When Mr. Dobbs tried to get those Kerry records through a Freedom of Information request, he received just over six pages and was told by the Navy Personnel Command that the full file consisting of at least 100 pages could not be released unless Mr. Kerry himself signed a Standard Form 180 granting permission.
To this day, Mr. Kerry has not signed that release form.
In his story of one contested episode during Mr. Kerry's service in Vietnam, Mr. Dobbs found that the edge favored Mr. Kerry's version, but that in Mr. Dobbs' extensive interviews, the accounts by both Mr. Kerry and his swift boat opponents 'contain significant flaws and factual errors.' Only Mr. Kerry refused to be interviewed for the story. "