Leave Kerrey to his own nightmares As for trying to dig up dirt on Ollie, whom I have always liked. The scuttlebutt I heard is that he was wounded by his own grenade. The 60 MIKEs. Things aren't always so simple in war. Once that had been accomplished, they would want to save this dirt to be used again, the NEXT time Kerrey threatened to do something they didn't like.
Blackmailers use dirt to threaten and extort.
They don't publish that valuable dirt until it ceases to have a useful purpose. In this instance, the likely blackmailers were the clintons and their stooges, and Newsweak was merely their agent. I think all of us agree that shooting armed children, or killing people caught in crossfire, or shooting civilians by accident, are all things that can happen in war. To all appearances this wasn't an accident, it didn't happen suddenly before anyone had a chance to think, and it wasn't necessary to save American lives. It was cold-blooded murder.