"The senator has his own team of intelligence and security advisers."
Posted on 07/12/2004 2:00:58 PM PDT by smonk
THANKS, BUT NO THANKS While reporters have made much of Sen. John Kerry's decision to pass up a security and intelligence briefing and instead prep for a political fundraiser in New York, it hasn't been the first time, according to sources at the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the Senate Intelligence Committee. In fact, Kerry hasn't been taking regular intelligence briefings for weeks.
"He's just not taking them. They have been offered by the Administration, we've offered, given everything that is going on," says an Intelligence Committee staffer. "But his campaign hasn't expressed any interest. I don't know how many he has had, but I bet it's fewer than one a week. And it's not like he is ever here." President Bush is known to take at least one formal intelligence briefing in the morning, with additional meetings during the day as needed.
Last week Kerry declined an intelligence briefing on the day that Homeland Security officials briefed both the House and the Senate on possible terrorist threats. Kerry, in New York for a fundraiser, passed up a full briefing, and instead had a shave and trim of his silver mane of hair he was so proud of when he boasted on Tuesday that he and his new prospective running mate, Sen. John Edwards, had better hair than their Republican opponents.
"If we're talking about the same intelligence that got us into this war in Iraq, why would we listen to them?" asks a Kerry campaign source. "The Senator has his own intelligence and security advisers who brief him regularly. This is just more political gamesmanship, and we aren't going to play."
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Any Texas Freeper can supply you with the duct tape to prevent that. You should always keep a roll handy when FReeping.
Chirac, Kim, OBL, and/or the Red Chinese?
Thanks for the advice *L*
One of Kerry's supporters was at the briefing in question.
Tom Daschle had to have his trousers laundered afterward. Direct quote: "extremely sobering information".
Let him keep fluffing his hair. When the shiite hits the fan, Kerry's going to be wide open.
I think you've wrapped it up very succinctly in that sentence. We are indeed. You have to believe the basic good sense and sense of self-preservation of the majority of voters will win out in the end. Hopefully, the Democrats won't be able to throw too many votes in key states.
If it doesn't, God help us.
That is, if I can get the U.N. and my friend Jacques to agree to it.
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