This is LBN - and I have been on DU for 10 years and have the post count to show for it. It is pretty ridiculous to claim that I somehow appear out of nowhere.
Yes I do defend Kerry and I do so because I believe he is one of the best statesman we have. I have never made a secret of that and I have the JK group as one of my groups. I don't go around asking people who appear most often on threads defending Snowden (or Hillary) why they simply appear out of nowhere. The fact is a large percent of people have relatively predictable positions and posts -- including you.
As to the idea that it means nothing should be released now, that is not true. Anything likely to result in some action - legislative, judicial or the executive branch to change something that is happening now would have far more justification. Here, the policy has already been changed. It is also completely unlikely that anyone will be indicted over anything they did here. So, the point is that this study is very important mostly for the historical record and to hopefully prevent the US from ever doing the same thing again.
As to Kerry, we do not even know what his personal preference on this is. I actually do think the reason he gave makes since given the tenuous situation in Afghanistan and Iraq may be what he believes. It is however, very possible that he was asked by Obama to persuade Feinstein to delay this. Given that it is PREDICTABLE that the release could cause blowback in Iraq or Afghanistan, it would seem to me that you need to have a very good reason for why it is important to have this report out now.
The fact that you equate what Obama is doing working with the Iraqi government to stop ISIS with Bush invading Iraq is tells me where you are.
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