Posted on 10/13/2004 9:48:00 AM PDT by MindBender26
Kerry Lost Security Clearance!
Just spoke with reporter friend in DC. She is talking with former USN ONI types who worked on DOD/USN investigation that resulted in total loss of Kerry’s Navy security clearance.
Kerry had been granted a Top Secret by the Navy on October 11, 1967 based on a routine background investigation by Office of Naval Intelligence. A top secret clearance was required for his work at that time.
Obtaining and holding a security clearance of any level, especially TS or above, requires certain terms, obligations, commitments and conditions from the holder. One of the most important is the holder of the clearance must promptly and fully any contacts with any foreign officials, agents, etc.
Lieutenant Kerry left active duty with the Navy on January 3, 1970, but he still carried those obligations as a commissioned officer of the Naval Reserve. Without telling anyone and without receiving permission from superiors,FBI or counter-intelligence officers, he traveled to Paris in the summer of 1970. He claimed the purpose of his trip was a honeymoon with his first wife, Julia Thorne, but there was another hidden purpose.
Numerous North Vietnamese and Viet Cong intelligence agents and officials were in Paris, having arrived a year earlier for the “Peace Talks.” While in Paris, Kerry met with agents on a number of occasions and had extensive discussions with them about U.S. plans, procedures and how to get the U.S. to essentially surrender in Vietnam.
These clandestine meetings were never reported to the Navy.
Almost a year later, in April 1091, speaking as the leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against The War, Lieutenant Kerry told a Senate hearing about his meetings with enemy agents. Senior DOD officials wanted to prosecute him as a Naval Reserve officer for violating a number of laws and regulations, but this was vetoed by the Nixon White House. They didn’t want to give the anti-war crowd any additional PR ammunition.
However, the Navy immediately pulled Kerry’s security clearance. He became a Naval Reserve officer who was known not to be trusted. He kept his commission, but lost all access to any classified information. In the words of one of the now-retired agents, “Lieutenant Kerry wasn’t cleared to know what time it was!”
The bottom line is, Kerry was on the Intelligence Committee of the Senate after the Paris fiasco and another trip to support the Moscow-backed Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
Today, he couldn’t get a security clearance to pull KP duty, but he wants to be Commander in Chief of all our military in the War on Terrorism!
Good Question
Nobody has "proven" the swifties claims either. It was 30 years ago and none of it is on tape. But their entree into the political arena gave the President a HUGE bump.
People will believe what they want -- as of yesterday I am still getting the Kerry "John 3:16" email which is PROVEN to be false. There are a LOT of people out there who would never vote for Kerry even if there was a 1/100 chance he had pissed on a flag. That's why they need to hear Dornan's story.
Tell that to the Walker family.
Ruiner, Is this a case of a < /sarcasm > tag left open or is it a clean up required in Aisle 23?
And yet the Dim leadership placed him on the Senate Intel committee!
You have to have Top Secret Clearance to be a Commander in Chief, if I am not mistaken.
this IS big.
This must be true.
There is no way he could visit with commies and still keep his clearance...especially not a TS clearance.
This is only part of the story, it doesn't explain the reason that Kerry's discharge is reported as 1978, instead of 1972. Kerry was probably issued a dishonorable discharge when his security clearance was stripped. Then got it upgraded through Carter amnesty.
"I personally commend Senator Kerry for standing up against the US government and the atrocities it soldiers committed in Vietnam. His contacts with the North Vietnamese helped bring this illegal war to a speedy end."
I guess "treason" is not in your vocabulary.
Perhaps you would be better received over at DU.
This is not the first time that info, about his navy security clearance being pulled, has been published. The MSM is not going to publish it if they can avoid it.
Would you please flag me to any future developments?
Thank you. And good job on it!
I guess that could depend on whether or not he had his record "cleared" back in the early 90's.
April 1091?
Damn that was a long time ago
Nothing to see here. Moveon (.org)
Unfortunately the surprise is that the leftist media is going to BURY THIS!
That's the story..........democrats are unserious about security. Period.
Explain then how Hillary is on that committee. Anyone who gave that b_tch a clearance should be executed.
"Kerry was still campaigning in the dark ages?"
Kerry had a plan even in those days.
Is this the info that Berger (is that who I am thinking of) stuffed in his clothes to sneak out of the library?
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