Posted on 09/26/2004 8:15:57 PM PDT by SteveH
Edited on 09/26/2004 10:07:26 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Daughter finds forgiveness in distant land
Scott Herhold
Heather Mocabee can recall seeing her father's Purple Heart in a trunk of momentos from his Navy days in Vietnam...
In an election season in which the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have been circulating untruths about candidate John Kerry, Heather talks about her own quest for the truth...
We will get to them after the election .....
No one should pay the slightest bit of attention to the Jerkery Mews. It is utterly beyond belief.
Contact Scott Herhold at sherhold@mercurynews.com or (408) 920-5877.
"She shook hands with an ex-North Vietnamese soldier"
There you go, a typical Kerry supporter!
Kerry says, I love NORTH VIETNAM!
(cant get enough of that communist rift, Love you Castro!)
She thought this and she sensed that. No hard facts whatsoever. What a load of pap.
You forgot to add "Barf Alert" to your posting.
Point of order:
since no news agency investigate any of the claims made by the swift boats veterans, how can they be called untruths? How about uncomfirmed allegations?
Oh, that's right, the media can say whatever it wants, regardless of journalistic integrity with no repercussions.
Let's never forget it was the San Jose Mercury News that circulated the Kerry Commission's reports that the CIA imported cocaine to fund the Contras, targeting its distribution at black neighborhoods. I'd love to see a late-October ad about that paranoid fantasy bullshit.
Yes, whatever happened to the "shred of evidence" standard!!! Oh, I forgot about Clinton and the documents they shredded.
We always have to prove everything, they (the MSM) don't!
I'd say the swiftees have much more than a shred of eveidence!!!! I'd call it several boatloads!
It's there now, courtesy of the Admin Moderator. Thanks!
Did Kerry ever apologize to the family of that VC kid he killed?
-John Kerry- some selected, informative links...--
-The Swift Grey Fox- John Kerry versus the Swift Boat Vets--
-The Prince of Tides- Bush ads, Kerry ads, the Tides Foundation, and so much more--
that was by Gary Webb, who is a darling of commies and other leftist scum
june 98
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A long-awaited Justice Department report released Thursday found no link between the Central Intelligence Agency and the trafficking of crack cocaine in the United States.
The exhaustive, 407-page report was prompted by a series of articles by the San Jose Mercury News in 1996. The articles alleged that a San Francisco-based drug ring sold crack cocaine in Los Angeles and funneled profits to CIA-trained Nicaraguan Contra rebels in the 1980's.
The Contras, with some U.S. government support, were attempting to oust the leftist government of Nicaragua at the time.
The Mercury News' drug-trafficking charges against Contra- connected figures prompted suspicion and anger among many black community leaders in Los Angles.
"After interviewing more than 200 people and reviewing more than 40,000 pages of documents, we did not substantiate the main allegations suggested by the San Jose Mercury News articles," said Inspector General Michael Bromwich.
Report: CIA did not hinder prosecutions
The newspaper series reported that Nicaraguan drug dealers Oscar Danilo Blandon and Norwin Meneses were also leaders of a Contra group directed by the CIA. It also alleged that the Nicaraguans, along with Los Angeles drug dealer Ricky Ross, received special treatment from federal drug investigators because of their CIA connections.
"While some drug traffickers supplying cocaine to Los Angeles drug dealers were Contra supporters, they were investigated and pursued by the Department of Justice," Bromwich concluded.
"These investigations were not always successful, but we did not find that they were obstructed because of claims that these individuals were connected to Contras or the CIA," he said.
The Inspector General's report also rejected the newspaper's suggestions that the Nicaraguans and Ross were the driving force behind the crack explosion in Los Angeles or in the Unites States as a whole.
'Groundless speculations'
The report was originally scheduled to be released in December, but was held up by Attorney General Janet Reno. The move raised accusations that she was trying to suppress the report's findings.
Bromwich called such charges "groundless speculations." He attributed the delay to Reno's fears of disclosing information about a current investigation by the Drug Enforcement Agency involving Blandon as an informant.
In a written statement not mentioning Blandon by name, Reno said Thursday she ordered the delay to protect the integrity of "a very important -- though unrelated-- investigation."
I bet that 60 minutes will devote hours to them then. (not)
you have to register for that article....
but keep in mind that the snip above is the only thing about Swift Vets lying. he threw that in as a little jab--just because he could.
the rest is a lifetime movie of the week story about a vets daughter going back to Vietnam.
so the whole article isn't about the swifties if you sent him a nasty gram... olivers email above was a good one...
This commie propaganda piece does not point out a single "untruth" told by the Swifties. Just more lies by the leftist media.
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