The WashPost reports today that radical left war protester John Kerry (okay, they didn’t use the “radical left” part) and his Vietnam Veterans Against the War were monitored by the FBI, relying on documents from California author Gerald Nicosia. (Laura Blumenfeld and Dan Balz then go to liberal historian/Kerry flack Doug Brinkley on how Nixonites saw Kerry as a “young demagogue.” If you saw Kerry’s 1971 Senate testimony on C-SPAN Sunday night, you’d say that’s about right.)

But for another look at what Nicosia is saying about Kerry, see how Marc Morano of CNSNews.com reports it. Nicosia says Kerry is lying about what he did and said in 1971 as he decided to split from the VVAW. Nicosia provides documents for that, too. Nicosia also suggests Kerry could be lying when he denies being present when VVAW members met in Kansas City in November 1971 “to discuss the possibility of assassinating U.S. senators still committed to the Vietnam War.” Wouldn’t that make FBI surveillance sound like a decent idea?