Brinkley: Kerry Faces Questions about Senate Hit Plot

NewsMax ^ | March 14, 2004 | Steve Malzberg

[Gypssy]

Sunday, Mar. 14, 2004 10:49 PM EST Brinkley: Kerry Faces Questions about Senate Hit Plot

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.

[Lady Jag]

I see Kerry is digging that hole deeper and deeper.

All the better to bury things in

[petitfour]

And he's hired the assassin to work for his campaign. Should we all be sceered? Would Kerry report a plot to assassinate political opposition? Or would he just look away?

[atomicpossum]

I'm more focussed on the fact that Kerry's 'band of brothers' was so radical that even a segment of them were advocating the assassination of American officials. Whether Kerry was present for the vote or not is one thing, and relevant, but just the fact that he was involved with the VVAW, an organization where such an idea would even come to consideration, speaks volumes and is something Kerry needs to answer to.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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JOHN KERRY = Enemy of Vietnam Vets

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1320


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[Redbob]

"unlike most conservatives, I know that the public is not conservative."

Speak for your self, sport.
But don't speak until you do a little homework; for starters, drag out that electoral map all done up in blue and red.
The Gallup polling organization for example describes the country as evenly split between conservative and liberal population-wise, with the liberals being pretty well concentrated on the coasts.

And in Austin...

[petitfour]

Thanks. I'll look at it in a little while. I don't know any Vietnam Vets for Kerry.

[raloxk]

"drag out that electoral map all done up in blue and red."

dirt doesnt vote. Do you think that map is somehow equally populated. It isnt. that map looks nice but means basically nothing

[The Shrew]

Ping!

TS

[cyncooper]

This charge,even if true, is so outlandish, the public will never buy it. Seems that conservatives are willing to embrace loony theories about Kerry just as the left embraces loony theories about Bush

How sweet.

Do you studiously ignore or just don't comprehend that this "loony theory" is fact-based and not some outlandish connect-the-dots for insane partisans ala dem attacks on Bush?

And btw, the "theory" is that Kerry has some questions to answer, and so far his answers appear to be either mistaken or outright false.

[Carolinamom]

So you're from China and signed up at FR January 1 of this year? Interesting. VERY interesting.

[raloxk]

if the right cant beat Kerry on issue of today, they deserve to lose. Are you and other conservatives so incapable of taking Kerry apart on his Senate record that your hope for this election hinges on stories from 1971?

[Interesting Times]

if the right cant beat Kerry on issue of today, they deserve to lose. Are you and other conservatives so incapable of taking Kerry apart on his Senate record that your hope for this election hinges on stories from 1971?

Feeling a bit of a chill wind, are we?

[Carolinamom]

Sorry...you signed up 1-31-04.

[cyncooper]

if the right cant beat Kerry on issue of today, they deserve to lose. Are you and other conservatives so incapable of taking Kerry apart on his Senate record that your hope for this election hinges on stories from 1971?

The "right"? We are discussing articles and commentary from journalists and now Douglas Brinkley. This is not the Republican Attack Squad.

As to your "either/or" premise, what rot. I and "other conservatives" (I guess we can see you aren't one) can walk and chew gum at the same time. The Bush campaign in fact is addressing Kerry's Senate record. It's being called an attack on Kerry, but they will persist.

I'm sure you're relieved to hear that BOTH areas of Kerry's record will be brought before the public in order for them to make an informed choice in this election.

[onyx]

Not from China.
The other night he said he was an Aussie I think.
Doesn't matter, he's not US citizen.
Fun and games = attention for raloxk

[raloxk]

"Feeling a bit of a chill wind, are we?"

no it is a fact. I also bet the majority of the voters think the same thing. This is a dead-end issue. I cant believe you dont see that.

[raloxk]

"Doesn't matter, he's not US citizen."

actually i am

[cyncooper]

This is a dead-end issue.

You're sounding a bit desperate for this topic to just go away...

[onyx]

Actually, I don't believe you're a person.

[raloxk]

"You're sounding a bit desperate for this topic to just go away..."

you moron i am trying to tell you it is a dead end issue. Did any of the Clinton allegations ever gain any traction in the 1990s? Why are you so desperate to trumpet it? You look as bad as the loony left when you trumpet it.