L.A. Times Overlooks Details of Kerry's FBI Record (VVAW Senatorial Assassination plot)

Insight Magazine ^ | March 23rd, 2004 | Scott Stanley Jr.

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News management may have reached an embarrassing low in the Los Angeles Times for March 23 where an article by staff writer John M. Glionna purports to offer selections from the FBI file on soon-to-be Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry, who was under surveillance by the G-Men as a member of the executive board of the pro-Viet Cong Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW).

Presenting items from 50 documents carefully selected from what it reported were 14 boxes of related government papers 12 feet high, the Times confirmed from the FBI and other witnesses that Kerry had resigned from the VVAW leadership in November 1971 at a Kansas City board meeting to run for Congress. For years Kerry claimed that he had resigned after a July 1971 meeting in St. Louis and had not been present for the Kansas City meeting that was moved from venue to venue to try to avoid FBI surveillance of the group's most secret plans.

The reason official confirmation that he did not leave the group until after the Kansas City meeting is important, say specialists on radical activities during the Vietnam era, is that the FBI documents confirm earlier reports by those present that Kerry participated in a closed-door discussion of a proposal to assassinate seven U.S. senators who were special targets of Hanoi, with whose agents selected leaders of VVAW had been meeting. The Los Angeles Times made no mention of this part of the story, broken 10 days earlier in the New York Sun by founding New York Times books editor Tom Lipscomb and since spiked by editors coast to coast. The early articles by Lipscomb may be reviewed at www.nysun.com (registration required), and the astonishing Times article without the contextual importance of the FBI confirmation that Kerry took part in the formal discussion of a plan to murder the leading senators at www.latimes.com (free registration required). Kerry reportedly voted against the killings but did not leave the meeting and call a cop. Until the FBI surveillance report surfaced to put him in the middle of the assassination discussion, Kerry claimed to have resigned before the meeting at which VVAW discussed the murder plan.

After Kerry left the board of VVAW, with which he had made his national reputation, the FBI ceased surveillance of his activities according to a bureau memo in early 1972.

To its credit, NBC News reported on the evening of March 22 a controversy concerning Kerry's presence at a closed VVAW meeting where the assassination of the senators was discussed and concluded that records show Kerry was indeed present at that meeting.

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[Argus]

The Times also buried the best assessment of Kerry at the time by one of the FBI informants, who reported that Kerry should not be considered a dangerous subversive because he was obviously "a political opportunist".

[The Great RJ]

The fact that he was present at the meeting where the assassination of US Senators was seriously discussed and did nothing makes him an accessory to terrorism.

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FYI

[Lexington Green]

The Death of Journalistic Ethics - Bill O'Reilly 3/22/03

There has been a subtle shift in opinion journalism in America in the past few years.

Now, we have people working for newspapers and magazines who are devoted to getting certain polticians -- namely the left -- elected to office.

While Rush Limbaugh and the right-wing talk show cadre are entertainers -- and describe themselves as such -- these people are embedded in the elite media and are not supposed to be political activists.

In a stunning admission in Sunday's New York Times, the following people attended a meeting with Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) in New York City:
Frank Rich of The New York Times
Richard Cohen of The Washington Post
Jonathan Alter of Newsweek
Howard Fineman of Newsweek
Jim Kelly of Time Magazine
Jeff Greenfield of CNN
Eric Alterman of The Nation
Can you imagine if the President of FOX News Channel and the Editor of the Wall Street Journal met with President Bush in some apartment? -- there would be outrage.

[MeekOneGOP]

THIS is the article they're talking about?:

FBI Shadowed Kerry During Activist Era

That article is also discussed on FR HERE.

[MeekOneGOP]

bump !

[kellynla]

I noticed this am when I read the article that the Times had omitted that the KC meeting involved an assassination plot of 7 US senators. How convennnnnnient...

Kerry and his "wannabee" Viet Nam combat veteran cronies should have been investigated, charged and indicted for conspiracy to plot an assassination of United States senators. A federal felony for starters.
Semper Fi, Kelly

Viet Nam Veterans Against John Kerry
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com

[Congressman Billybob]

I was on this precise subject before Insight. My article, "Clear Eye for the Hate Guy" was specially posted on FreeRepublic yesterday, and went up on ChronWatch.com this morning. The L.A, Times, and today the Washington Post, are cheating their readers and acting with journalistic incompetence.

Congressman Billybob

Click here, then click the blue CFR button, to join the anti-CFR effort (or visit the "Hugh & Series, Critical & Pulled by JimRob" thread). Please do it now.

[muawiyah]

One wonders just how soon before a senator or two demands that Kerry be censured and barred from the Senate floor for security reasons.

Then there are those reporters from the above-named periodicals who have covered up the threat to the safety of the Senate represented by Kerry and his fellow terrorists (some of whom are out campaigning for him).

Until this guy can clear this up he should not be allowed in or near any of the major public buildings in Washington DC.

[kennedy]

Hey, so he forgot. Give the man a break.

Obviously he must have attended so many different meetings where terrorist plots to assassinate U.S. elected officials were discussed that he can't keep them straight.

[PhilDragoo]

the Times confirmed from the FBI and other witnesses that Kerry had resigned from the VVAW leadership in November 1971 at a Kansas City board meeting to run for Congress.

But Kerry said he quit in July. This LA Times must be part of the Republican attack machine.

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FYI

[Dante3]

BUMP

[farmfriend]

Thanks Saber!

Short list ping.

[jimbo123]

LA Times hack reachable at:

John.Glionna@latimes.com

[doug from upland]

Hack is the word. I had sent him the info and he did a puff piece designed to protect Kerry.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Well, don't expect much from the media because it takes care of their own. Kerry is a Liberal, so is the main media.

[B-bone]

Hey. Give the guy a break. He probably drank too much iced-tea and was out of the room when the discussion took plac. . . Oh, never mind, wrong candidate.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!