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!
Bottom line....Kerry is French.
Give it a few months. I'm sure something even weirder will come along! ;)
We can wish this would break in the MSM - but I don't see it happening. They'll protect him.
Remember, sarcasm tags are your friend ;-)
BTTT
Based on Mindbender26's posting history, you can take it to the bank that Mindbender26 had this conversation.
As much as I'd like to see him crumble under a two-pronged attack (having a clearance revoked/less than honorable discharge), I'm taking a wait and see attitude on this one.
I am beginning to wonder if Fox was not all a plot to get us to trust them and then gradually reveal their liberal core....you know, the frog on a gradual boil!
well i think it is time they straightened out.
no one will do any more on this than they have on rathergate, the break ins and violence at republican campaign HQs, Theresa's tax returns, Kerry refusing to turn over his military records, and on and on....
They aren't?
Traitor bump. Another torpedo headed for the S.S. Kerry.
I understand why Kerry won't sign the 180, but what I don't understand is how he can get his military records changed. Who's pulling the strings for him, and more importantly...WHY???
WOW was the first word out of my mouth too! I have never known MindBender to ever steer any of us wrong -- I would vouch for him any day and his work on here!
This is as newsworthy as the fact that, Klintoon never had a security clearance, and couldn't get one, we never heard a word about that.
I really want to believe this. However, if it is true, it will never see the light of day in the MSM. Our only hope is the SBVT!
There can be only one...
I had a Top Secret and when a member of the military is stripped of his Top Secret it is major.
You are new on here and with your last comment I would say a Troll! Not going to work -- too many of us on here have had security clearances and know the truth!
I am sure this will never happen again, right Ruiner?
If I remember, olddog9 posted something not fit for FR on another thread as well. Must be a really slow week at DU.
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