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!
That's because I have been charging the capacitors...
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So this is why he doesn't want his records released!
They opened up a can of worms and questions that HAVE to be answered
The only way to clear this all up is to SIGN THE 180 FORM JOHN ...
This harkens back to the best "gray suit" threads of 1998.
Quidam, you're missed.
That makes sense...and that old fart, Carter, would be the one who would give it to him.
I guess the Navy and Nixon did not want to take the necessary step to prosecute Kerry due to protection by Senators Kennedy and Fulbright. The USG would have had to recall Kerry to active duty to do that. It would not have gone down well politically.
I did not know that. I assumed since even *I* had a clearance, someone like the Pres would need one too. Since you have to have one, or the ability to get clearance to work in any classified area of the DOD or DOJ. This is nuts.
Go to JF Kennedy's online library, so a search of Bob "Kerrey" (of the 911 Commission) and see what he thinks about National Security.... what a joke.
My dear Lord! Please God, keep this man out of the Presidency.
"This will break NOT!"
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I tend to agree. I know I read alot of the stuff in the original message before. Mostly here. Just for fun, I did a google search on some key words. This info has been tossed around the internet for awhile now.
http://www.google.com/search?q=kerry+honeymoon+navy+paris+enemy&num=100&hl=en&lr=&output=search
Mainstream media hasn't shown anything yet and we know they won't. Most folks won't hear about it.
More importantly if he had his clearance yanked, how did he get an honorable discharge?
Become an elected official.
Kerry certainly had a security clearance as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. And if elected president, a security clearance is automatic.
Bump!!!!!!!!!!!
this is nuts.
If Kerry gets elected, we are really screwed. Think Clintons Alamos/Chinagate was bad?
Spoken like your average traitor
You obviously haven't read "Unfit for Command". Suggest you educate yourself.
Navy Stripped Kerry Of Security Clearance!!!!!!
Unauthorized Contacts With Enemy Agents!Excerpt: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!
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The MSM will bury this story, but here is the kicker: if by some miracle Kerry is elected president, how is he going to be briefed? Open the "football?" Send TS secured communications? I have never known anyone who lost a TS clearance and got it back.
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