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I suppose it would have been too much to ask to see this in The New York Times.
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.
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.