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'''Swift Boat Veterans for Truth''' (SBVT) "registered their group under [[527 committee|Section 527]] of the U.S. tax code and went public at a news conference held in the [[National Press Club]] in Washington, D.C. on May 4, 2004." [http://www.usvetdsp.com/swiftboat_term.htm]
The group, [[restating|rebranded]] as '''Swift Vets and POWs for Truth''', is an advocacy organization formed in 2004 by opponents of [[John Kerry]]'s [[U.S. presidential election, 2004|U.S. presidential]] campaign, [http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&tts=1&display=rednews/2004/09/01/build/state/25-swift-boat.inc some] of whom did not agree to participate in the project.
Primary projects have been: their [http://www.swiftvets.com www.swiftvets.com] [http://web.archive.org/web/20040430021820/http://www.swiftvets.com/Index2.htm website], the book ''[[Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry]]'' (released by the [[conservative]] [[Regnery Publishing]]), and a series of television [http://www.swiftvets.com/index.php?topic=Ads advertisements] challenging [[John Forbes Kerry's military service|John Kerry's military record]] and activism against the Vietnam War.
