Kirk didn't tell the whole story Navy tipped him to questions about his record

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June 2, 2010
BY LYNN SWEET Sun-Times Columnist

WASHINGTON -- Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Mark Kirk did not tell the whole story about how he found out his bio had misidentified him as having won a Navy "Intelligence Officer of the Year" award. It turns out the Navy tipped off Kirk's House staff that news outlets were asking questions about his military record.

Last week, Kirk, a commander in the Naval Reserves, said his staff called the false claim to his attention as if they discovered it themselves. What actually happened was that after his staff got the heads-up from the Navy, Kirk's team scrambled a damage-control operation, putting a statement on his website correcting the record before a story came out. snip

http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/2343516,CST-NWS-sweet02.article

I still think this bozo is going to take Obama's old senate seat. But, it's good to see this in the local news.