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!
please edit to correct typos and other errors of haste
eg: in april 1091
fine-tooth this, please!
this is too important to allow it to be dismissed over flawed presentation.
Echoing what some others said, my guess is this is why
1. Kerry won't sign a 180 (along with the fact it will reveal the truth about his wounds), and
2. His discharge status was changed.
"With less than 3 weeks to go, friend of a friend rumors won't cut it"
Yeah .. I expect the left will try to do whatever in order to discredit us; or make us jump on something that is a hoax.
I say that all the time...I want to know what the "H" stands for?? Holy??
You are lucky to be able to say that in cyberspace. In person you might lose your remaining tooth.
Please have your camera ready.
I am sending this thread to the editor of the local Tulsa paper.
I WAS ONLY KIDDING!!!!!
Stand down, guys....stand down....
he sez 'e fergot a sarcasm tag, and is only kidding...
can I be on your list please? be gentle with me, I've never been pinged before.
whew!
~ Back then, and presumably now, every officer had a background check and a security clearance. It was either Secret, or Top Secret. I've forgotten. Very routine. Even I had such a clearance. (Never needed it.) But for any particular bit of info, you still had to have a need to know in order to see it. ~
Yep, don't know about the officers but I know in the enlisted ranks, you would be screened for a T/S if your job might come in contact with that info on a need-to-know basis. By changing AFSC (Air Force) the clearance might automatically drop a level if the need-to-know was no longer there, didn't mean that they were a security risk.
(unlike Kerry)
What a twit.
We can not let this die! We may have to shove it in tne MSM face, and up their A$$, but we can let it disappear.
Kerry was still campaigning in the dark ages?
"Some of us know what it's like to stand and fight Mordret alongside King Arthur on the great plain of Salisbury. Oh, have I mentioned that I fought with Edward and the Black Prince in France?"
Kerry the immortal Highlander
olddog9 is suspended now.
He was, into Cambodia. lol
Do you have proof that the atrocities were committed!
Do you have factual evidence that you back that claim up with? Or are you just repeating what came from Kerry's senate testimony in 1971?
As for Vietnam being and illegal war, what do you base that on?
Picked a great time to leave for lunch then right after, huh? ;)
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