As recently as 1997, Kerry questioned the size of the intelligence community.
"Now that [the Cold War] struggle is over, why is it that our vast intelligence apparatus continues to grow," Kerry said.
In 1995, the Massachusetts Senator proposed a bill that would gut $1.5 billion from the overall intelligence budget by reducing funding $300 million for five years, beginning in 1996. No co-sponsors signed onto the bill and it never made it to the Senate floor for a vote.
The previous year, Kerry proposed a bill to slash $1 billion from the budgets of the National Foreign Intelligence Program and from Tactical Intelligence, and freezing their budgets. That bill was rejected.
Not that this will matter to the voters... I mean, Kerry keeps repeating about "Bush's as a 'failure'" so what does Kerry's past have to do with anything? < /sarcasm>