Dear Sir,
As a long time employee of the federal government, I have confidence in
the records that each government agency maintains. Many official federal records
have formed the basis for legal decisions, major or minor. US courts find such
records acceptable as evidence in criminal and civil trials, and, as evidence,
these records are highly sought by parties of interest to major legal decisions.
Obviously, such documents would be helpful in the determination of a citizen’s
suitability to seek the highest office in the land.
During your lifetime,
several federal agencies have kept detailed records related to your various careers
and your antiwar activities which took place after your return from Vietnam, where
you served in a combat role for approximately four months.
Legitimate and
interested parties, including veterans groups, non-governmental interest groups
(NGOs), and the mainstream media, want to review your federal records, but they
cannot because you refuse to fully release them. Several groups and individuals
have requested a review of your records since you began your campaign to win the
presidency.
Among the various records are your medical records, your IRS
records, your military records, and, perhaps most important of all, the records
that only you can obtain which contain evidence the Federal Bureau of Investigation
gathered as they investigated you under their statutory authority to investigate
threats to our nation’s internal security.
Hundreds of these FBI investigations
took place during the Sixties and Seventies, but not everyone investigated was
guilty of threatening our nation’s internal security. However, unless your records
are read by the voting public, only you and the FBI know what is hidden in your
FBI files. And you know full well that the FBI is not empowered to disclose what
is in your FBI files, regardless of how important such evidence may be.
On
the other hand, there is no bar to the release of these documents, if you authorize
the disclosure. In fact, many individuals – interested in putting certain controversies
to rest – have obtained their own FBI files and then have allowed an interested
third party to review them so as to end a conflict or controversy. You can do
the same, and nearly 100,000 citizens are urging you to do so. If the whole of
the American voting public knew these FBI files with your name on them existed,
I am quite sure they would want to know what is contained within those file jackets.
The
Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty, a Fairfax-based foundation has obtained
petitions from almost 100,000 individuals who agree that you should request your
FBI files, and disclose them immediately. Only then would citizens know the full
extent of your antiwar activities. If your activities were innocent and in the
best interest of this nation, then the FBI records would certainly reveal your
patriotism and your good intent.
I believe it is in your best interest
to obtain, and then release these records whether or not you are successful in
your bid for the presidency.
Be assured that citizens want to know all there
is to know about presidential candidates. To my knowledge, no other candidate
is withholding documents that may bear on their character and reputation, but
if we learn that is the case, our organization will seek petitions from interested
citizens so as to learn about those candidates’ pasts, as well.
Only when
citizens are well informed can we expect to have elections that are truly legitimate.
If candidates lie or withhold important information bearing on their character
or their true loyalty to our nation, voters can be fooled into voting for the
wrong persons.
I am certain because you are a long-serving US Senator you
would agree that truth is the most important component to ensuring our nation’s
future. Please move swiftly to enable the FBI to release your FBI files so that
they may be completely reviewed prior to the election on November 2, 2004.
All
you have to do is sign a one-page form.
Very truly yours, Gary W. Aldrich
President
The Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty
Gary Aldrich
is the president of The Patrick Henry Center. A special project of the Center
is the search for truth about presidential candidates. Go to www.AmericansforTruthAboutKerry.com.
