More on Kerry's Questionable discharge

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[Txsleuth]

I think there is a procedure for security clearance. I think the 9/11 commission made recommendations that cabinet members of new administrations be names asap after elections so that their security clearances can be completed sooner

After 2000, election which took longer than usual, the dems were so angry that the slow-walked the confirmation on a lot of Bush's appointments which put him way behind. I don't know if it was well documented but I think that is one reason given for some of the missed messages leading up to 9/11, which wasn't blamed on Bush. The just thought that the transition of administrations should be quicker.

Isn't it ironic that Kerry's cabinet picks would probably get a lot more scrutiny that Kerry himself. They have to be voted on a passed by the Senate. I don't think Kerry would be.

[Ed_in_NJ]

This coverup has no doubt been carefully orchestrated over the years by rat insiders, including Ted Kennedy. The combination of Carter's amnesty, laws passed to help, and Kerry now being a member of the Sinate (friends who will protect him) have all allowed him to weasel his way around the theoretical protections we have to keep us safe from a guy like him.

[Dont Mention the War]

Here's a scarey scenario for a Halloween night. Kerry wins It is revealed he had a dishonorable discharge The MSM is implicated in a coverup.

What's scary about it? The MSM would just laugh at us. They have no legal responsibility to the truth.

Such a scenario is just sad, because it will mean the public fell for it.

[Dont Mention the War]

I really find it amazong that a Man who might be able to become the next President of the USA, would be allowed to assume that office without a credible background inspection.

Remember that the Clinton Administration simply ignored the background checks for many of its appointees. If they wanted a certain somebody in a certain position (that didn't require Senate approval, as most don't), they just put them there, "security requirements" be damned.

[Txsleuth]

You have got to come to this new thread showing the Bush team in Halloween costumes mocking Kerry's Elmer Fudd moment. They say laughter is the best medicine - I think you will feel much better!!!!!!!

[bitt]

where is it?

[26lemoncharlie]

Truth is the only medicine that will sooth the ach in my heart. You may think this do deep, but the pain is deep.

"The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." Chesterton

[infowarrior]

If he has an OTH (Other Than Honorable) discharge, will he be allowed to have a TOP SECRET Clearance?

No, not "legally". But when has that ever stopped, or even slowed down, the Left?

the infowarrior

[pawdoggie]

This is an interesting line of investigation, but it's about 10 months too late to influence this election. I always wondered why the Kerry people went after the President's National Guard Service so hard when it was eminently obvious that the official Republicans and the Bush Campaign were happy to concede Kerry's honorable service and his medals. I never bought the "we saw bad things about the Senator's record on defense on the Internet" excuse. It makes sense that the Democrats would assume that the President's people, like Bill Clinton's minions before them, would examine Kerry's military records, and selectively release incriminating portions to the press. In hindsight, it seems that the Democrats response to that possibility was to try to suggest that the President didn't deserve his honorable discharge. If Kerry's "other than honorable" was revealed, the DNC could say that it was recrimination by the evil Richard Nixon Administration (an injustice that Jimmy Carter remedied), and that Kerry (OTH Discharge notwithstanding) had at least fought for his country, while Bush had used influence peddling to earn his honorable discharge. Had it not been for the election of draft dodger Clinton, it's doubtful that Kerry would have ever run for President.

[piasa]

bttt

[rocklobster11]

here is the Lipscomb story:

http://www.nysun.com/article/4040

The only thing I found new was that Kerry was unable to get into Harvard Law because admissions was worried about his non-honorable discharge:

A member of the Harvard Law School admissions committee recalled that the real reason Mr. Kerry was not admitted was because the committee was concerned that because Mr. Kerry had received a less than honorable discharge they were not sure he could be admitted to any state bar.

[Chili Girl]

Thanks for more information on this traitor