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!
See the link below.
Form 180 please.
If Kerry gets promoted, I'll probably lose my clearance for posting to freerepublic.com
"...there can be only one..."
Sounds feasible...
Anybody scrounge up proof of this?
Realize that but some proof of Kerry doing either
would have political value. B-1 said he had proof.
It will break.
It's considered news.
And as that nice young man from Sinclair Broadcasting stated, Kerry's military record is news - and the media should do its job in reporting it, and not leaving information to advertising.
I'm thinking this might be the kind of information Sinclair Broadcasting will include in their 90 minute news program they are creating around Stolen Honor.
...to stick, this must have verifiable documentation. This is not CBS.
hmm! Well, if that's the case I guess you had a good laugh reading all of the posts to you.
Suspicious still!
Don't fool yourself.
He can give himself a security clearance with his own executive order.
...to stick, this must have verifiable documentation. This is not CBS. We don't have the luxury of saying just anything that pops into our mind.
Do you have any means to verify this?
Right.......WE have standards. ;)
I was in the Signal Corps, 1966-67, I had a Top Secret Clearance, (required).... they did check. It was noted that I had received a speeding ticket in Newark, DE. I didn't put it on the clearance form.
I'm not doubting the poster's sincerity. I am just saying
that for anything such as this to be effective, solid background is required.
I want to watch.
I believe he was on an AEGIS ship then.
There was a very long thread 6 weeks ago after he made the
statement on one of the tv shows.
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