A link would be nice.
Posted on 10/13/2004 9:48:00 AM PDT by MindBender26
Kerry Lost Security Clearance!
Just spoke with reporter friend in DC. She is talking with former USN ONI types who worked on DOD/USN investigation that resulted in total loss of Kerry’s Navy security clearance.
Kerry had been granted a Top Secret by the Navy on October 11, 1967 based on a routine background investigation by Office of Naval Intelligence. A top secret clearance was required for his work at that time.
Obtaining and holding a security clearance of any level, especially TS or above, requires certain terms, obligations, commitments and conditions from the holder. One of the most important is the holder of the clearance must promptly and fully any contacts with any foreign officials, agents, etc.
Lieutenant Kerry left active duty with the Navy on January 3, 1970, but he still carried those obligations as a commissioned officer of the Naval Reserve. Without telling anyone and without receiving permission from superiors,FBI or counter-intelligence officers, he traveled to Paris in the summer of 1970. He claimed the purpose of his trip was a honeymoon with his first wife, Julia Thorne, but there was another hidden purpose.
Numerous North Vietnamese and Viet Cong intelligence agents and officials were in Paris, having arrived a year earlier for the “Peace Talks.” While in Paris, Kerry met with agents on a number of occasions and had extensive discussions with them about U.S. plans, procedures and how to get the U.S. to essentially surrender in Vietnam.
These clandestine meetings were never reported to the Navy.
Almost a year later, in April 1091, speaking as the leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against The War, Lieutenant Kerry told a Senate hearing about his meetings with enemy agents. Senior DOD officials wanted to prosecute him as a Naval Reserve officer for violating a number of laws and regulations, but this was vetoed by the Nixon White House. They didn’t want to give the anti-war crowd any additional PR ammunition.
However, the Navy immediately pulled Kerry’s security clearance. He became a Naval Reserve officer who was known not to be trusted. He kept his commission, but lost all access to any classified information. In the words of one of the now-retired agents, “Lieutenant Kerry wasn’t cleared to know what time it was!”
The bottom line is, Kerry was on the Intelligence Committee of the Senate after the Paris fiasco and another trip to support the Moscow-backed Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
Today, he couldn’t get a security clearance to pull KP duty, but he wants to be Commander in Chief of all our military in the War on Terrorism!
This will break NOT!
Gonna need more than a blog.
Well, well, well, it's October and I'm surprised.
If you think this will be a big deal in the press, you will be sorely disappointed.
This should "break HOT!"
A link would be nice.
Whoa!
B U M P ! ! !
Ping.
Do we have a link?!
BUMP
I publish an online paper in Maine, Christian-news-in-maine.com please keep me informed regarding this will you.
ping.........
no it won't. Noone in the MSM, including FOX now, wants W to win. Must have taken a lot of $$$.
yawwwwwwwwwwn
I have been curious about this for years.
I have always felt that his Paris trips could not pass without a serious response from the USN.
File this away with B-1 Bob's claim he has proof
Kerry either pissed on or burned the flag.
Can your guys get anything on this?
Interesting, but I'll wait to be excited until I see it in the press.
This will break, if at all, on page C19. Security Clearances are just another "Lifestyle Choice." No MSM gives a crap.
This was discussed a few weeks back. Proof??? What about reinstatement of clearance?
LOL!
If you think this will be considered news fit to print by the NY Times or broadcast by Dan Rather in any kind of way that would ever hurt Kerry, you have a whole lot of misplaced faith in a hopelessly corrupt media. If they mention it at all, it will in a way calculated to take potshots at Republicans.
This needs to hit the MSM.
Then how could he serve on the Intelligence Committee?
I just read an interesting article on Michael Savage's web page. regarding Kerry's family history, the article is detailed about his family history dealing in the drug trade with China.
http://www.paulreveresociety.com
Should be.
But it won't.
Kerry gets a pass AGAIN.
Give what Kerry did, NOT to initiate action to strip him of his security clearance would have been neglect of duty on the part of his official Commanding Officer.
Nobody has disproven either. Let's not let the MSM dictate what we can and cannot say.
Scary and shocking but I hate to say it: So what. The old media, where most people still get their info, will not report this. Just like with the charges from the SB vets. It may have some minor impact but unless it becomes the big story all the pundits and talking heads concentrate on, it will not change the race. If it does get any traction it will just be dismissed as another dirty trick personal attack, etc etc.
Not as surprised as I will be to see this show up anywhere in the MSM.
I want to believe, but Dan Rather and Peter Jennings won't mention this unless 90 percent of the country has already heard it from somewhere else.
Spoken like a bonafide anti-American scum.....
Johnny sure has some explaing to do
Yikes.
The old FR fishbowl.
Sounds like a DOD clearance -- not that big of a deal.
If this breaks, at the very least it will allow a lot of people to hear the Kerry Paris Peace Talks story for the firat time. That could be worth 1 to 2 points on Nov 3.
But if it does break hot, it could do real damage to Team Kerry.
Was it SOP?
Statements with the potential power of those two need proof.
Our wishing won't make it effective.
ping
In the words of a certain famous Freeper,
This needs to be pursued aggressively.
I thought to be a CIC you had to be able to get TS clearance?
I had SAR clearance and they had all kinds of requirements you had to meet.
Kerry is going to lose big with this one, good job MB26!
Some things never change. He still doesn't know what time it is, he thinks, or at least wants us to think, it's September 10, 2001.
crossing my fingers....again.
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