WHY S. 1290? Kerry Proposed S. 1290, Gutting $1.5 Billion From Intelligence Budget (RNC)

Republican National Committee ^ | March 8, 2004 | RNC Research

[PhiKapMom]

Monday, March 08, 2004

WHY S. 1290?

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KERRY CAMPAIGN AD: “John Kerry … The new Senator … [w]ho sounded the alarm on terrorism years before 9/11.”  (John Kerry For President, “Courage,” Campaign Television Commercial, 9/9/03)

YOU CALL S. 1290 SOUNDING ALARM?

September 29, 1995: Kerry Proposed S. 1290, Gutting $1.5 Billion From Intelligence Budget.  The bill “[r]educe[d] the Intelligence budget by $300 million in each of fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000.”  S. 1290 had no cosponsors and never made it to the floor for a vote.    (S. 1290, Introduced 9/29/95)

Kerry Proposal Came Two Years After Largest Terrorist Attack On U.S. Soil Before September 11, 2001.  “If the deadly explosion at the World Trade Center was indeed a terrorist bombing, it would be the largest such attack in recent U.S. history, security experts said … ‘This certainly would be the largest bombing of this type in recent U.S. history,’ said Brian Jenkins, senior managing director of Kroll Associates and a terrorism expert.”  (Catherine Crocker, “Blast Would Be Largest Terrorist Attack In Recent U.S. History,” The Associated Press, 2/27/93)

WHY S. 1290? KERRY PROVIDES EXCUSES BUT STILL NO ANSWER

Asked About His Proposals To Cut Intelligence, Kerry Claimed:   “What we were trying to do, some of us, was push the funding not into technical means. There was a fascination always with satellites, listening devices, not with human intelligence. I’ve always been somebody who has felt that we needed human intelligence, that’s our failure. … I wanted to reduce spending from The National Technical Means and change the culture of our intelligence gathering.”  (Fox News “Sunday,” 1/25/04)

ü      Who’s “We”?  S. 1290 had no cosponsors and never made it to the floor for a vote.  (S. 1290, Introduced 9/29/95)

In Fact, S. 1290 Was Not Aimed At Any Specific Part Of Intelligence Budget.  The entire provision in the bill reads, “Reduce the Intelligence budget by $300 million in each of fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000.”  (S. 1290, Introduced 9/29/95)

Kerry’s 1994 Proposal To Cut $1 Billion – Which He Introduced Twice – Similarly Gutted All Aspects Of Intelligence Budget.  Kerry proposed a bill cutting $1 billion from the budgets of the National Foreign Intelligence Program and from Tactical Intelligence, and freezing their budgets. When the bill got stuck in committee, Kerry proposed it as an amendment to another bill. His amendment was soundly defeated.  (S. 1826, Introduced 2/3/1994; S. Amdt. 1452, Introduced 2/9/94; H.R. 3759, CQ Vote #39: Rejected 20-75: R 3-37; D 17-38, 2/10/94, Kerry Voted Yea)

ü      National Foreign Intelligence Program Encompasses All Aspects Of Intelligence Community Programs And Efforts. “The term ‘National Foreign Intelligence Program’ refers to all programs, projects, and activities of the intelligence community, as well as any other programs of the intelligence community designated jointly by the Director of Central Intelligence and the head of a United States department or agency or by the President.”  (50 U.S.C. § 401a-6)

ü      Tactical Intelligence Provides Vital, Time-Sensitive Support For Commanders And Soldiers On Ground.  Tactical Intelligence includes “[t]hose activities outside the National Foreign Intelligence Program that accomplish the following: a. respond to operational commanders’ tasking for time-sensitive information on foreign entities; b. respond to national intelligence community tasking of systems whose primary mission is support to operating forces; c. train personnel for intelligence duties; d. provide an intelligence reserve; or e. are devoted to research and development of intelligence or related capabilities. Specifically excluded are programs that are so closely integrated with a weapon system that their primary function is to provide immediate-use targeting data.”  (“Tactical Intelligence And Related Activities,” Department Of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict/, 6/5/03)

[PhiKapMom]

Kerry wanted to gut the Intelligence Community but declares he knew about terrorism before 9/11? Give me a break!

[PhiKapMom]

We all need to get involved in the Reelection of President Bush. Kerry is too dangerous to have anywhere near the White House!

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Kerry is too dangerous to have anywhere near the White House!

No kidding!!!!!!! Just the thought frightens me to death.

[onyx]

Thankfully, he has a long and radically Leftist voting record in the US Senate.

[AirBorn]

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Know what scares me too just besides the thought of Kerry sitting in the Oval Office?? ( Like you all said!)

Everyone that he would be BRINGING ALONG WITH HIM if he got in!!!!!
And we already KNOW how THEY said they would run things!

Like my brother says-- It would be a package deal with ALL OF THEM!! Do you want Kerry to appoint Hillary as Secratary of State or things like that!!

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[onyx]

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[MeekOneGOP]

[Victoria Delsoul]

Kerry is too dangerous to have anywhere near the White House!

No kidding! People need to get this information. The media won't tell us, on the contrary, they suppress anything negative about this man.

[PhiKapMom]

Was talking to my Mom and she said the media is the worst she has ever seen in her lifetime. They are disgusting.

[Victoria Delsoul]

They sure are!

[Intolerant in NJ]

S. 1290 had no cosponsors and never made it to the floor for a vote...Kerry shills like Suzy Estrich are trying to explain away his flip-flops by saying that it's often necessary to compromise and change positions because of alliances with others and changes in bills as they go through the legislative process - since he initiated this bill himself and got no one to cosponsor it with him, he's certainly hanging out there all alone this time.......

[Mo1]

Asked About His Proposals To Cut Intelligence, Kerry Claimed: “What we were trying to do, some of us, was push the funding not into technical means. There was a fascination always with satellites, listening devices, not with human intelligence. I’ve always been somebody who has felt that we needed human intelligence, that’s our failure. … I wanted to reduce spending from The National Technical Means and change the culture of our intelligence gathering.” (Fox News “Sunday,” 1/25/04)

Interesting .. and what side did Kerry fall on when Torricelli gutted our intell???

[potlatch]

SCARY KERRY:

[nopardons]

This is VERY sacry! Thanks for the ping.

[nopardons]

Kerry knows everything, no...Kerry knows nothing. But wait a minute, find a topic and Kerry will take both sides; just give him a day or two.

[lainde]

bump and thanks!

[backhoe]

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[Sapper26]

Now there you all go again. Just because JFHeinz voted against every major weapons system, it doesn't mean he's weak on defense (he said so himself). Therefore, just because he wanted to cut $1.5 billion from the CIA doesn't mean he's soft on the war on terror.

Uh, wait. Nope, I'm wrong. It does.

[MeekOneGOP]

Scary alright !! ...

[blackie]

John F'n Kerry is a traitor ~ Bump!

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!

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