Sorry for the source but here is a part of an interview O'Neill gave to humaneventsonline.com:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=4835<snip>
O' NEILL: Oh, absolutely. First of all, Kerry's story, on more than 50 occasions on the floor of the Senate, and on more than 50 different occasions in interviews as recently as last summer, was that the turning point of his life was that he had undergone this deal where he had been illegally ordered into Cambodia at Christmastime--Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Sometimes he says
"turning point of his life." As a matter of fact, Kranish, his biographer, on Hannity and Colmes described this as the turning point of life. . . . The guy in command of him at that point in time was a man named Joseph Streuhli and then the chain of command would have run up ultimately to Admiral Hoffmann and then Admiral Zumwalt, who's dead. We checked with Joseph Streuhli to ensure that there was never anything like that occurring. We also know that it's a lie independent of those comments in the following two ways. In the book Tour of Duty, Kerry is placed safely in Sa-Dec, some 50 miles from the Cambodian border, writing a letter, in his words, with visions of sugarplums in his head. Second, we know he wasn't in Cambodia that Christmas Eve because everyone familiar with the entire operation series knows that the PCF, the Swift Boat areas, stopped just north of Sa-Dec, some 50 miles from the border. The areas further north were PBRs--smaller boats--and that the border was heavily guarded to ensure that nobody could go across it.
There were navy gunboats anchored in the Mekong River Channel, through which a Swift Boat would have to pass.
O' NEILL: Yes. It would have been apprehended 30 miles before. But were placed there because in 1967 some drunken Army guys actually went up that river and were interned in Cambodia. And so to avoid future incidents, those gunboats were placed there. And we checked with the commander of those gunboats, whose name is Tom Anderson. He's also in the book.
Did he say that no Swift Boats went by his post?
O' NEILL: Yes. The significance of "Christmas in Cambodia" is that he accused every single fellow officer--I mean every superior--of a war crime in crossing an international boundary illegally. He painted himself as a hero among villains. He said it was the turning point of his whole life many times--how many people fake the turning point of their life?
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And here is part of the CNN transcripts:
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0408/24/asb.00.html
Here is what O'Neill told Nixon:
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O'NEILL: I was in Cambodia, sir. I worked along the border on the water.
NIXON: In a swift boat?
O'NEILL: Yes, sir.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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If no swift boat could get closer than 50 miles to the Cambodian border and all other boats were apprehended by gunboats 30 miles before the Cambodian Border, how the hell did John O'Neill pass them?
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