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!
where the heck is Matt Drudge today?
if it was kerry..really kerry...it was probably the other way around..he set fire to the flag..then pissed his pants when he burnt himself. (kerry: can I get a medal for this?)
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SUPRISE!
Rotf....do they give out medals for "hot rocks" ??
He's not going to report on this unless there is more confirmation
A a news article would help get it on Drudge
I always thought that "Senate Intelligence Committee" was a bit of an oxymoron.
fwiw
I have not read the thread but slick and his wife could not get a security clearance to work at the Nevada Test Site let alone get one having anything to do with all the secrets they were given when elected to be the P. of America.
This is different because president hillary and her husband were not in the armed services and never had a security clearance revoked. Nonetheless the commie MSM will not allow the american subjects to know much about this just like they never revealed the fact that hillary was a commie and slick sold the commies american secrets for money,power and sex.
That would make sense.
I guess like the requirement that you had to be born in the USA in order to be eligible to run for Prez, you would also need to be able to get clearance.
But it makes sense, I guess that one doesn't need it.
How high up is your reporter friend....just a low level beat reporter or pretty significant?
And is she planning to run a story on this soon?
Yeah the quicker we leave and betray the South Vietnamese by stopping aid the quicker the communists could get on with killing the 2 million or so miscreants that stood in the way of workers paradise.
Here is a much more detailed history of Kerry's Family
http://hundredpercenter.blogspot.com/2004/10/john-kerrys-hidden-family-history.html
LOL Ain't that the truth. Kerry...Graham...
His comments resulted in POWs receiving bad treatment, and ultimately the swift boat campaign against his presidential aspirations.
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