Brinkley: Kerry Faces Questions about Senate Hit Plot

Newsmax ^ | 3/14/04 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

What did Sen. John Kerry know and when did he know it about a plot to assassinate pro-Vietnam war U.S. Senators hatched at a November 1971 Kansas City meeting of the group Vietnam Veterans Against America?

According to presidential biographer Douglas Brinkley, that's the question Sen. Kerry needs to answer. If it turns out that the likely Democratic presidential nominee knew of the treasonous plan, Brinkley says he had an obligation to go to the authorities.

"The question is: did Kerry quit [VVAW] before Kansas City or did he quit after Kansas City," Brinkley told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg. "If he quit after Kansas City, that means he clearly knew about this assassination plot against the Senators and never went to the authorities."

Kerry says he submitted his official letter of resignation to the VVAW just days before the critical Kansas City confab. But two Vietnam veterans who attended the session told the New York Sun on Friday that they remember Kerry was there.

Meanwhile copies of Kerry's resignation letter are nowhere to be found.

Brinkley, whose book "Tour of Duty" chronicles Kerry's Vietnam war exploits, said that the former Navy Lieutenant had an obligation to warn authorities about the frightening plan, telling Malzberg, "Clearly his critics would say, if he had known about it why didn't he report it."

Once put to a vote, the death plot went down to defeat, with Kerry voting in the majority, according to the two witnesses who say he was there.

However, Kerry officials in Florida have recently invited the assassination plan's author, Scott Camil, to join the Senator's campaign, the Sun report claimed.

Brinkley described Camil as "a hothead Vietnam vet who wanted to bring down the U.S. government."

"I'm a little shocked that the Kerry campaign would want him actively working with them in Florida," he told Malzberg.

[Hon]

"Vietnam Veterans Against America"

Freudian slip, I guess.

[dc-zoo]

I'm more than a little shocked. There should be another report from Lipscomb in the New York Sun monday.

[Hon]

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[cyncooper]

But two Vietnam veterans who attended the session told the New York Sun on Friday that they remember Kerry was there.

Those two are named Barnes and DuBose.

A third man named Musgrave was contacted by a reporter from the Kansas City Star the day the Sun report came out.

By the time the KC reporter was doing his follow-up to the Sun report, Barnes had developed a more hazy memory, though he did not totally reverse and say Kerry did not attend, he just couldn't be as positive as he had been the day before when speaking to the Sun.

The Sun reporter was on Fox today and has a new story coming out tomorrow he said. He also said he felt journalists should be looking into this.

[cyncooper]

Ping

Brinkley has weighed in.

[Intolerant in NJ]

According to presidential biographer Douglas Brinkley, that's the question Sen. Kerry needs to answer. If it turns out that the likely Democratic presidential nominee knew of the treasonous plan, Brinkley says he had an obligation to go to the authorities...watch it, Brinkley - this sort of thing could lose you the position of official presidential biographer, for which you've been shilling so hard, should Kerry win in November.......

[eeman]

Maybe Brinkely is mole put in their by the Clintons???????

My God, I've gone over to the tinfoil-hat side. :(

[Travis McGee]

bttt

[dc-zoo]

Doug's internet connection was down this evening. I hope he gets it back soon.

[weegee]

BUMP

[tutstar]

bttt

[Wild Irish Rogue]

The VVAW was not a fraternal, American Legion kind of organization by any means. ANSWER and MOVEON.ORG are Girl Scouts, compared to the VVAW. The were militant and they were violent.

This is just a smidgen of what must be out there under FOIA and declassified FBI reports. Gary Aldrich has encouraged Kerry to come clean-the voters will have to wait until it's 32 degrees in Hell for that to happen.

"Final Report of the Select Committee to Study government Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities, " US Senate, April 23, 1976

"During the Vietnam War, investigations of individuals labeled "Key Activists" were conducted under Section 87, in which informant coverage was stressed."
" For example, in January 1968, instructions went out to ten major field offices to designate certain persons as "Key Activists."
" They were defined as "individuals in the Students for a Democratic Society and the anti-Vietnam war groups [who] are extremely active and most vocal in their statements denouncing the United States and calling for civil disobedience and other forms of unlawful and disruptive acts."

"Because of their leadership and prominence in the "new left" movement, as well as the GROWING MILITANCY of this movement, each office must maintain high-level informant coverage on these individuals so that the Bureau is kept abreast of their day-to-day activities as well as the organizations they are affiliated with, to develop information r egarding their sources of funds, foreign contacts, and future plans."

"In August 1971, a full investigation of the VVAW was opened on the basis of reports that Communist youth groups were infiltrating the VVAW and the alleged involvement of some VVAW members in illegal demonstrations;"
"militant antiwar activity by the VVAW, including reported links with foreign elements, was also a basis for the full investigation."
"33 FBI concern centered on the national office of the VVAW, which the FBI saw as adopting Marxist-Leninist doctrine and anti-imperialist positions."

[Dialup Llama]

Bush found timesheets from 30 years ago. Where is Kerry's resignation letter? Maybe he never resigned.

[Dialup Llama]

So 'basically' Kerry was a member of a militant, terrorist organization?

[onyx]

BTTT

[doug from upland]

Good for Malzberg having him on. This may develop legs.

[ASA Vet]

No need for the foil.

You're seeing the beginning stage of Comrade Hillary's plan to "save the party."

[dc-zoo]

Glad to see you're back online.

[doug from upland]

It was down here for about 6 hours.