Posted on 12/11/2017 11:49:27 AM PST by Starman417
Liberals seeking to blame Hillary Clinton’s election loss on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 never answer just why Vladimir Putin would want her to lose. One would’ve thought he would want her to win, hoping she, as President, would give them even more access to U.S. uranium supplies.
Still they insist that people like former national Security Adviser Mike Flynn and current Attorney General Jeff Sessions conspired with Russian officials to influence November’s results. In either case, it was not illegal for them to meet with the Russian Ambassador and perfectly sensible for them to do so. Just ask Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, who “lied” about her meetings with Russians as well. The fact is that, with the possible exception of Flynn and Sessions putting Russian dressing on their salads, their contacts with Russia has been overhyped.
Just how did they conspire with Russia? Did Flynn cancel Hillary’s trip to Wisconsin? Did they give the Russians John Podesta’s password, which was “password”? Did Sessions or Flynn help them hack into the DNC computers? The whole, shall we say it, witch hunt is just a bunch of, well, “Bolshoi”.
If Sen. Schumer and House Minority Leader Pelosi want to investigate attempts to work with Moscow to influence a U.S. election, they should investigate Sen. Ted Kennedy’s attempt to get the Russians to help him prevent the reelection of President Ronald Reagan in 1984. As Peter Robinson wrote in Forbes in 2009 London Times reporter
John Sebastian, pouring in 1991 through Soviet archives Boris Yeltsin had made public, found a memorandum detailing another instance of Sen. Ted Kennedy going a bridge too far:
Composed in 1983 by Victor Chebrikov, the top man at the KGB, the memorandum was addressed to Yuri Andropov, the top man in the entire USSR. The subject: Sen. Edward Kennedy.Teddy Kennedy asked the Russians to meddle in the 1984 campaign for the purpose of defeating Ronald Reagan, the man who would go on to defeat the Soviet Union and win the Cold War. The memorandum, which shows Kennedy’s efforts to derail Reagan’s attempt to build up our nuclear deterrent in Europe, received little or no attention until the publication of Paul Kengor’s book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, in 2006. As the Daily Signal notes of Teddy Kennedy’s perfidy:“On 9-10 May of this year,” the May 14 memorandum explained, “Sen. Edward Kennedy’s close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow.” (Tunney was Kennedy’s law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) “The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov.”
Kennedy’s message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. “The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations,” the memorandum stated. “These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign.”
Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy had “selfish political and ideological motives” when he made secret overtures to the Soviet Union’s spy agency during the Cold War to thwart then-President Ronald Reagan’s re-election, a Reagan biographer said in an interview with The Daily Signal.Well, well, Democrat Sen. Ted Kennedy was a “dupe” of the KGB. But, unlike the current feeding frenzy over a non-existent conspiracy between the Trump administration and Putin’s Russia, the media ignored the documented evidence. Kengor talked about Kennedy’s close working relationship with Moscow and the KGB, and the fact that American media wouldn’t touch the story, in the American Thinker in 2009:When they came to light years later, Kennedy’s secret contacts with the Russians through their KGB spy agency in the early 1980s didn’t cause nearly the tizzy that Russia’s alleged interference with this year’s election has for President-elect Donald Trump among liberal activists and reporters. …
In the 1980s, Kennedy was “terribly misguided” and “a fool” for seeing Reagan as a greater threat than either the leader of the Soviet Union or the head of its brutal secret police and intelligence agency, political science professor and writer Paul Kengor told The Daily Signal….
The presidential hopeful’s secret correspondence with the Soviet spy service was first reported Feb. 2, 1992, by the London Times in an article headlined “Teddy, the KGB and the Top Secret File.”…
In a letter addressed to then-Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov, dated May 14, 1983, KGB head Viktor Chebrikov explained that Kennedy was eager to “counter the militaristic policies” of Reagan, who defeated Carter as the Republican nominee, and to undermine his prospects for re-election in 1984….
Kennedy’s history with the KGB, and the trips Tunney took to Moscow on his behalf, are documented in what are known as the Mitrokhin papers filed with the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C….
…what is clear from history is that Russian agents have worked with “dupes” such as Kennedy and other “naïve” Americans to influence U.S. policy to serve their own ends, Kengor, a Grove City College political science professor, told The Daily Signal.
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I suppose it would have been too much to ask to see this in The New York Times.
I used to love Brehnev’s imitation of Robert DeNiro.
And this POS is buried in Arlington.
It’s disgusting.
You wonder if his father Joseph turned in his grave at the time, given that he was staunchly anti-Communist and passed this sort of view on to Joe Jr. (who was originally supposed to have the Presidency, of course) and Jack. And I believe that the elder Joseph Kennedy was good friends with Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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And not a peep from our side of the aisle when this happened, because (a) we wouldn’t want to make “The Lion of the Senate” look bad, and (b) a lot of the Republican senators were uncomfortable with Reagan too.
Lot of parallels with Trump...He makes the current crop of Republicans uncomfortable, too...
I don’t know if the Elder Joseph Kennedy was good friends with Joseph McCarthy, but both Jack and Bobby Kennedy were.
Jack Kennedy delayed surgery on his back so he would be unavailable for a censure vote against McCarthy (IIRC) which was a bit of a weaselly way out of taking a stand, but at least it showed where he stood for those who cared to look.
Bobby Kennedy made McCarthy the Godfather of Robert Kennedy Jr.
The Kennedy fawning entourages tried to distance them from these positive relationships, but Jack and Bobby never spoke up. It may have been political cowardice, but there it is.
“And this POS is buried in Arlington.”
Dig this SOB up and hang him. Around that 2005-2006 timeframe the POS came to Wright Patterson and got a KC-135 flying satcom testbed with a just upgraded digital cockpit sent to the boneyard. The cuck republicans rolled over and played dead in my state. Then senator DeWine now up for election to governor,a big FU shoutout.
Kennedy introduced the concept in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Bill that required evidence that someone was providing classified information to a foreign intelligence service. Someone who "only" had a clandestine relationship with a foreign intelligence officer and carried out covert influence operations for a foreign power could not• be wiretapped. (Emphasis mine.)
When we see the KGB reports we can understand why Kennedy would want this provision in the law. Kennedy was not a KGB agent. He also was not "a useful idiot" who was used by the KGB without understanding what he was doing. Kennedy was a collaborationist. He aided the KGB for his own political purposes.
And Clinton taking money from the Chinese hardly raised an eyebrow. Remember Gore and the Buddhist temple scandal?
And that’s when they were communists and mass murderers.
“Dig this SOB up and hang him. “
I’d prefer they dig him up and toss his carcass off the bridge at Chappaquiddick.
...and then wait 10 hours before letting anybody know about it...
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