http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/03/27/kerry.documents/index.html
FBI documents detailing government surveillance of John Kerry in the early 1970s have been stolen from the home of a historian in a suburb of San Francisco, California.
Gerald Nicosia, who spent more than a decade collecting the information, told CNN in a telephone interview that three of 14 boxes of documents plus a number of loose folders -- hundreds of pages -- were stolen Thursday afternoon.
"It was a very clean burglary. They didn't break any glass. They didn't take anything like cameras sitting by. It was a very professional job," Nicosia said. [grytpype: so it couldn't possibly have been a Bush operation.]
"Was it a thrill-seeker who wanted a piece of history? It could be," Nicosia said. "You'd think there was a very strong political motivation for taking those files. The odds are in favor of that."
I would say so. Has Bush stooped to ordering breakins of private homes in order to get material to smear Kerry?
And of course this immediately calls to mind the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist in 1971. Let's hope this third-rate burglary is as unfruitful as that one:
The Plumbers did not acquire any information about me in their burglary of my psychiatrist's office, and whatever information they released as a result of their efforts to "neutralize" me did me no harm; for instance, the judgment in a CIA psychological profile of me which they requisitioned that I had "acted from a higher sense of patriotism." (They weren't happy with that particular result and ordered that a second profile be prepared.)http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Ellsberg/ells.QA99.leak.html