A story that broke while you all were preparing for cookouts or catching up on some shuteye has taken a turn for the interesting. To recap: on Monday, Trinidad/H Street/Capitol Hill blog Frozen Tropics was the first to publish images from the security cameras outside the Capital City Diner which depicted Ward 5 Council candidate Kathy Henderson taking down Harry Thomas, Jr. and Kwame Brown campaign signs and replacing them with Adrian Fenty ones. The images, one of which can be seen at right, were supplied by Diner owner Matt Ashburn.

Henderson’s initial defense of her actions was that Ashburn asked her to take down the signs as part of an “act of sabotage.” Ashburn has denied those claims. Taking it to the next level, Henderson has released the following press release, which elaborates on her claim. We’ve copied and pasted the entire release after the jump, but feel free to go ahead and skip to the second-to-last paragraph if you want to really get at Henderson’s thought process.