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Oh man, "CISPES," that really takes me back. 1985, we were four years from winning the Cold war. Of course the liberals wanted to throw in the towel. I was in college and the whimpering about Reagan, "Star Wars," etc. was unbearable. Amazing how the same mentality is coming right back with respect to the war on terror. The only way I can sleep at night is knowing we must be 4th down and goal if our left flank is once again ready to quit.

I remember that, too :) Speaking of which, your reference to CISPES just jogged my memory. Kerry is also mentioned in an old pro-CISPES book, Ross Gelbspan, "Break-Ins, Death Threats and the FBI: The Covert War Against the Central America Movement", Boston: South End Press, 1991, ISBN 0-89608-413-2. The book is of course left-wing propaganda, but taking that FWIW, it has some important info on Kerry on pages 191-193, in a section called "Ollie's Enemies". The bottom of p. 191, while discussing the association of Jack Terrell with a group called the International Center for Development Policy, mentions, "Staff members of the Center, including Terrell, were also working with the staff of Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), which was investigating the involvement of narcotics traffickers in the contra supply network." Pp. 192-193 adds, "It is important to note that Terrell has been a principal witness against supporters of the Nicaraguan resistance. . .Terrell's accusations have formed the basis of a civil suit in the U.S. District Court in Miami and his charges are at the center of Senator Kerry's investigation in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee." Farther down on 193 it says, "Simultaneous with the Bureau's surveillance of McMichael and Terrell, according to documents released by the Iran-Contra Committee, the FBI also conducted brief investigations of three Congressional opponents of Reagan Central America policies. The Bureau conducted probes in May and June of 1986 of Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Sen. David Durenberger (R-Minn.), and Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.) to determine whether their opposition to Administration policies in the region was being assisted by intelligence agents of the Nicaraguan government." [Footnote for last quote cites "Boston Globe", March 24, 1988.]