Posted on 10/25/2006 5:53:23 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
As you'll learn in the interview, Kennedy's office did not try to dispute the authenticity of the memo. They just tried to spin the meaning.
Bump.
Just another reason to hate that fat SOB.
If true, they should hang the fat b*****d for treason. I'm sure that'll happen just as soon as he serves out his manslaughter conviction.
Our Senator was working for Peace, you see, not Victory.
bump!
Kennedy is one arrogant weasel. Not surprising, considering that he's allowed to get away with anything. And the lack of interest by the MSM in this story indicates once again why they are a worthless pile of excrement.
"Our Senator was working for Peace, you see, not Victory."
He was working for his self-aggrandizement like the narcissistic slob that he is.
A thread yesterday written and posted by Fedora suggested that Senator Tunney, who was involved in these treasonable activities, may actually have been a Communist KGB agent.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1724508/posts
Of course the BSM won't run with this, no surprise there. What's worse is that our own party won't run with it. With the huge financial advantage we have, we could get this in front of America consistently over the next two weeks.
The linkage to current traitorous dim tactics can be made clear. It could be very effective.
Guess we'll just have to all vote. They can't win if we do.
Better, hate the MASSHOLES who keep reelecting the Fat Swimmer so he can bedevil the rest of us!!
Screw you, Massachusetts!
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Tunney remains true to his roots. He's now chairman of the board of the Armand Hammer Art Museum and Cultural Center.
Exactly!
Ted Kennedy was a 'collaborationist'
Human Events, Dec 8, 2003 by Romerstein, Herbert
Aided KGB for Political Purposes
Even long-time Bush watchers were surprised when former President Bush presented an award to Sen. Edward Kennedy (D.-Mass.) at a time when the far-left senator was involved in a full-scale series of attacks on our current President.
Teddy Kennedy's bizarre attack on President Bush shocked even some of his supporters. With rhetoric reminiscent of "conspiracy nuts," Kennedy accused the President of deliberately getting us into an unnecessary war in Iraq, a war that was planned in Texas. Remember that the senator's brother, Jack, was assassinated in Texas 40 years ago.
While the tone was hysterical, it was not unusual for Sen. Kennedy to attack an American President and give aid and comfort to our country's enemies. There are some important reports found in Soviet archives, after the collapse of the Communist dictatorship, that provide an interesting insight into the character of the senior senator from Massachusetts.
One of the documents, a KGB report to bosses in the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, revealed that "In 1978, American Sen. Edward Kennedy requested the assistance of the KGB to establish a relationship" between the Soviet apparatus and a firm owned by former Sen. John Tunney (D.-Calif.). KGB recommended that they be permitted to do this because Tunney's firm was already connected with a KGB agent in France named David Karr. This document was found by the knowledgeable Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats and published in Moscow's Izvestia in June 1992.
Another KGB report to their bosses revealed that on March 5, 1980, John Tunney met with the KGB in Moscow on behalf of Sen. Kennedy. Tunney expressed Kennedy's opinion that "nonsense about 'the Soviet military threat' and Soviet ambitions for military expansion in the Persian Gulf . . . was being fueled by [President Jimmy] Carter, [National Security Advisor Zbigniew] Brzezinski, the Pentagon and the military industrial complex."
Kennedy offered to speak out against President Carter on Afghanistan. Shortly thereafter he made public speeches opposing President Carter on this issue. This document was found in KGB archives by Vasiliy Mitrokhin, a courageous KGB officer, who copied documents from the files and then defected to the West. He wrote about this document in a February 2002 paper on Afghanistan that he released through the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson Center.
In May 1983, the KGB again reported to their bosses on a discussion in Moscow with former Sen. John Tunney. Kennedy had instructed Tunney, according to the KGB, to carry a message to Yuri Andropov, the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, expressing Kennedy's concern about the anti-Soviet activities of President Ronald Reagan. The KGB reported "in Kennedy's opinion the opposition to Reagan remains weak. Speeches of the President's opponents are not well-coordinated and not effective enough, and Reagan has the chance to use successful counterpropaganda." Kennedy offered to "undertake some additional steps to counter the militaristic, policy of Reagan and his campaign of psychological pressure on the American population." Kennedy asked for a meeting with Andropov for the purpose of "arming himself with the Soviet leader's explanations of arms control policy so he can use them later for more convincing speeches in the U.S." He also offered to help get Soviet views on the major U.S. networks and suggested inviting "Elton Rule, ABC chairman of the board, or observers Walter Cronkite or Barbara Walters to Moscow."
Tunney also told the KGB that Kennedy was planning to run for President in the 1988 elections. "At that time, he will be 56 years old, and personal problems that have weakened his position will have been resolved [Kennedy quietly settled a divorce suit and soon plans to remarry]." Of course the Russians understood his problem with Chappaquiddick. While Kennedy did not intend to run in 1984, he did not exclude the possibility that the Democratic Party would draft him because "not a single one of the current Democratic hopefuls has a real chance of beating Reagan."
This document was first discovered in the Soviet archives by London Times reporter Tim Sebastian and a report on it was published in that newspaper in February 1992.
Sen. Kennedy played a major role during the 1970s in Grafting the restrictions that made it so difficult for the FBI and CIA to do the job of protecting the American people. One of the most pernicious restrictions was the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) passed in 1978. President Franklin Roosevelt, in 1940, had ordered the FBI to wiretap Nazis and Communists because they were operating in the United States on behalf of hostile foreign powers. Every President after him used the inherent power of the President to order wiretapping for national security purposes.
Kennedy told the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1976 that "For the last five years, I and others in the Senate have labored unsuccessfully to place some meaningful statutory restrictions on the so-called inherent power of the Executive to engage in surveillance." When Congress discussed legislation to require a court warrant to wiretap enemy agents and terrorists, Kennedy and the ACLU began a campaign to raise the barriers as high as possible. 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. 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
OK, OK, most of the Massholes are located in Bwahstan. I've met lots of nice people from Mass who are completely unrepresented by their congressional delegation. Gun owners, mostly.
And don't forget native Californians who have been disenfranchised and disarmed by a radicalized political culture.
I won't generalize next time. But just WHO keeps reelecting this dirtbag Fat Teddy, anyway?
He is just a Democrat, ready to connive with the enemy to advance his own interests. Clinton was far more effective with the treachery thing. Clinton's gifts to the Chinese is why China is today a serious nuclear threat to us. For Clinton it was for personal enrichment. Clinton is not an ideological traitor; he is just utterly venal.
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