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!
"Is there a statute of limitation on treason?"
The Federalist doesn't seem to think so...
http://patriotpetitions.us/Kerry/
I am with you -- we are screwed if he were to be elected. Cannot even believe some turkeys on here saying being stripped of a security clearance is no big deal. You get fired when you are stripped -- what part of that do they not understand? Without a clearance, you cannot do the work you were hired to do.
Doubt that. I am sure Senators have their own security clearance procedures. I don't know how they are vetted through the State Dept, CIA, DOD, etc.
How did he get on the Senate Intelligence Committee after losing a clearance?
Sounds like ya'll believe a TS DOD is the big ticket to the fair.
Elected officials get a pass. No investigations.
I am totally convinced that he had a general discharge and had it upgraded. What was the date of his honorable discharge?
if it makes it to the front pages of newspapers, or on tv.
but i doubt it'll get there.
p.s. that bitch o'reilly turned out to be a dud, didn't he?
Savage was talking about that last night -- thanks for reminding me to go read....
Just like Clinton's trip to the then Czecholslovakia in 1968. NO ONE was allowed in there at the time. '68 is the year that there was an uprising and the Soviet tanks rolled in.
Clinton gets to go to CZ? In '68? What's up with that?
Kerry didn't get his with a treason charge because the entire mainstream media were on his side. It is just tragic that the media have been allowed to drive campaigns for such a long period of time. The tide is turning.
That's what I thought -- Clinton put him there which I have to wonder if that is what Burger was after. To sit on that committee there is a higher level of clearance level you have to have to see the crypto information. Remember of the Senators complaining they were expected to vote on appropriations for blackbox programs but were not allowed to see them because that required an additional security level.
Have to wonder if Clinton granted the higher level of clearance as President and that is what Burger stuffed in socks, etc.
Without corroboration, this means nothing.
have we heard again from mindbender on this thread as to whether the 'friend' is going to be running a story??
He does kind of resemble Charles DeGaulle.
A Top Secret DoD security clearance is nothing to sneeze at. It doesn't have a bearing now on Kerry's access to classified data, but...
It has a direct bearing on the character of a man from whom the clearance has been stripped. My reference to the Walkers...traitorous spies...tells you my opinion of same.
Could this explain all his many absences from the Intelligence Committee? He didn't have the security clearance to see some of the classified material they were receiving in those meeting.
Maybe ruiner decided to take a trip down memory lane and still believes that Nam was a huge mistake.
Doubtful.
More likely that he just didn't care.
The trap to all this is 'it was Nixon out to get me'.
The MSM will use this line, even if it all proves true. Count on it.
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