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I think you were both wondering about how Kerry was able to get this testimony out to this committee, not your exact words, but I can't find your posts now.

This has been bothering me since the last time this ran in the spring, this testimony.

It's clear to me that Fulbright was the instigator here, or he at least must have been in cahoots with the far left, and the vvaw, and other groups.

Fulbright, if you look into his career, worked very hard at tearing this country down for years. It's unbelievable to me.

He and his colleagues had to have been in on this.

Fulbright was one of the traitors of this country, and nurtured not only Kerry, but another traitor we all know and despise who was Fulbright's protege, and that was clinton.

It's clear to me that Fulbright was the instigator here, or he at least must have been in cahoots with the far left, and the vvaw, and other groups.

Sure - it was easy to notice how Fulbright and other Demos softballed the Q&A and were even accomidating towards kerry. They basically gave him a pass to make any claim, forward any allegation without hard scrutiny in return.

The times being as they were, the significance of this hearing flew right by most people's notice - particularly where kerry echoes almost word-for-word the North Vietnamese demands at the Paris talks.

Not so these days.

Yes, I think there's good evidence of Fulbright collaborating with the VVAW and their allies on this--and not just Fulbright but a number of other left-wing Congressmen and Senators, who had previously supported the Winter Soldier investigation (notably Detroit Congressman John Conyers, a political ally of United Auto Workers and the Black Panthers, both in turn supporters of the antiwar movement). The FBI's files on the VVAW (100-HQ-448092, Section 2, p. 199) mention that an informant learned on 4/12/71, just before Dewey Canyon III, "the VVAW had received $50,000 from Senators McGovern and Hatfield, who according to the source, obtained the money from an unknown New York source". The source may be deduced from this article:

The protests were set for the week of April 20. Kerry spent some of his time at the Georgetown townhouse of his longtime friend George Butler, working the phones, trying to round up veterans. But the real problem was money. Kerry, who was not financially independent despite rumors to the contrary, was supposed to raise money to pay for buses that would transport the veterans.

He called his friend Walinsky, who had run unsuccessfully for New York attorney general and had excellent financial connections. Walinsky arranged a meeting of potential donors at the Seagram Building in New York City. Among those present were Seagram chief executive Edgar M. Bronfman Sr. and about 20 other New York businessmen who opposed the war. Kerry delivered a low-key speech about the importance of having veterans attend the protest. Then the businessmen were each asked to stand and declare how much they would contribute.

"We raised probably $50,000," Walinsky recalled. "It took an hour."

Incidentally, what's especially interesting about this is that Bronfman was named in a Senate organized crime investigation (see Frank Costello and Edwin Baldwin's testimony to the Kefauver Committee) as a member of a bootlegging syndicate connected to the Mafia syndicate of Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, and to Joseph Kennedy's bootlegging partner Abner "Longy" Zwillman. The Bronfman family has donated to Kerry's campaigns ever since:

The Official Kerry-Edwards Blog

Business Leaders for Kerry-Edwards

Edgar Bronfman, Former Chairman, Seagram Company

Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Chairman and CEO, Warner Music Group