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!
Ping...and ping for me to read later.
you're right of course, but if they do manage to get him elected they, and the whole country, will be humiliated in the eyes of the world because documentation WILL surface. so much for Kerry's promise of "respect in the world".
HOT PING
looks like the last thing a tank driver sees...
a loving gift... a string of depleted uranium ordnance flowing from the "super gun," in the nose of an A-10.
nice.
Tell that to millions of dead Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians etc. - your hero helped murder them all AFTER the "speedy end" to this "illegal war"
Kerry received an HD because the Navy never prosecuted him for the "crime," i.e., meeting with the enemy in time of war. Yanking his security clearance would not prevent him from getting an HD. Senators still need a security clearance. If I recall, Leahy was kicked off of the intelligence committee for leaking information.
what a great website.
"Benedikt Kohn "
Coincidence? I think not.
Kerry sat on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence between 1993 and 2000. (Source: CNS News).
Cool, thanks. I don't doubt that this information is true, however I would love to see some paperwork backing it up. This is something that needs to be passed along to everyone.
We don't need another traitor in the White House. Clinton did enough damage to last a century....
This is a "WOW, thanks for the ping!" big bump!
Probably due to his position as a swift boat commander, and the possibility (however remote) that his swift boat could be sent on a TS mission
IF....I hear about this, or read it myself in the Tulsa World...I will get on my head and stack BB's naked in the middle of a BlockBuster parking lot........
True .. but meeting with the enemy could cause problems getting an HD and clearance yanked
But they only way I see of clearing up these questions is for Kerry to sign the 180 form
Man I hope this is true, and documented.
I FORGOT THE SARCASM TAG!!!!!
I WAS ONLY KIDDING!!!!!
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