Kerry Friend 'Bo' Dietl 'Shocked' by Assassination Plot

Newsmax ^ | 3/21/04

[areafiftyone]

Legendary former New York City homicide detective "Bo" Dietl said Saturday that he was "shocked" by reports that Sen. John Kerry participated in a 1971 Kansas City meeting of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War where a plot to assassinate seven U.S. senators was considered.

"I was shocked listening to the story," Dietl told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley, who had just broadcast an update by the reporter who broke the news last week, the New York Sun's Thomas Lipscomb.

"I like John very, very much as a person," said Dietl, who's a personal friend of the Massachusetts Democrat. "But if this has any validity to it, it could be earth-shattering."

Dietl said Kerry may have committed a crime if he took part in any discussions about the assassination plot.

"When you talk about killing somebody, that's conspiracy to commit murder," he told Crowley. "At the point you talk about it you're guilty of a crime."

Dietl said it made no difference whether or not the plot was carried out, telling Crowley, "By just talking about it, it's the crime of conspiracy."

The former lawman, who now operates his own security firm, Beau Dietl & Associates, urged his old friend to come clean about the 1971 episode, warning, "Once they start to cover things up, that's when the crimes are going to start to begin again."

Dietl went out of his way to assure Crowley that, despite his comments, he has a warm relationship with the likely Democratic nominee, explaining: "John Kerry is a friend of mine. He was at my birthday party. I was at Mara Lago with him last year and he's a good person."

[I still care]

The partisan media will BURY this, if they possibly can.

A 20 year old drunk driving arrest makes for a 4 day news political orgy, if it's a Republican, but being in on a antiwar terrorist plot will be covered over.

Can anyone of any honesty doubt that if it were Bush, the media would go nuts?

[grobdriver]

"But if this has any validity to it, it could be earth-shattering."

This person hasn't been around politics very long...
About this story, the Dems simply say "He didn't do anything wrong".
You will notice they will never say "He didn't do it", they say he didn't do anything wrong, and then apply their twisted definitions of "right" and "wrong" to the situation, also saying "You can't force your morality on me!"
Standard Democrat Operation Procedure (SDOP).

[Just mythoughts]

"Bo" Dietl was a constant on the tube during the sniper shootings in Maryland, D.C., and Virginia.

His professional analysis of WHOM it was doing these "killings", was "white boy" playing too many "video games".

[CatoRenasci]

From a legal perspective, I think the matter is unclear. There was a discussion whether to undertake certain criminal acts (assassinations), and there was apparently a vote not to. I'm not sure that adds up to a conspiracy. Kerry then, apparently , resigned. OK, even if there was grounds for him to believe that others might continue to conspire, he withdrew. The tricker question is whether he then had a legal duty to turn them in. I think the issue is sufficiently fact driven and hence murky that it would have been very difficult to secure a conviction here.

What it says about Kerry's judgement and responsibility, is different question.

[areafiftyone]

I wonder what the names of the seven Senators were? And if they are alive what they think of Kerry now. Just a curiosity question. I think Kerry had a legal duty to turn them in since he used all of this to further his political career and all the time had higher aspirations for the presidency.

[Clodia Pulcher]

Kerriae esse delendam

[CatoRenasci]

One may sincerely hope.

From your mouth to G*d's ears, as they say....

[doug from upland]

I just spoke to Dietl in his NY office. I gave him Lipscomb's number, and he said he would call him.

[Salman]

The partisan media will BURY this, if they possibly can.

Not if they are Hillary partisans.