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 Kerrys 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 didnt want to give the anti-war crowd any additional PR ammunition.
However, the Navy immediately pulled Kerrys 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 wasnt 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 couldnt 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!
This isn't going to cut any ice with the typical Kerry voter. Might fire-up Bush's turnout or sway a few undecideds. That might be important in a close election -- without vote fraud.
Some Facts on Kerry's Family
Great Grandfather made a fortune selling Opium
Grandfather committed suicide
Father wrote an anti-american book called Star spangeled Mirror , published in 1990
Mother is From France
First cousin influenced Kerry to be an anti-war activist during Vietnam
First cousin is a Mayor in France
Kerry went to boarding school in Switzerland and spent the summer in his family's estate in France.
And more... Must read...http://hundredpercenter.blogspot.com/2004/10/john-kerrys-hidden-family-history.html
I'm not sure if you're being serious or not, so I'm not trying to bust your chops. But, a Top Secret security clearance carries the trust of the nation, and thus, also carries serious consequences for a violation of that trust. Jail time and monetary fines are explicitly mentioned for such a violation. Mine is still valid for a few months even though I've been out of the Intell Community since 9/11 (just through a quirk of timing I scheduled my last day at my previous job for that date), and I'm looking forward to a loosening of the pucker factor!
I don't know about a ticket to the big fair...but it is certainly nothing to sneeze at!!
Exactly right. Kerry has already referred to Vietnam as Nixon's war and he has the WH tapes, which mention him by name as a topic of conversation between Nixon and Colson. Kerry will wear the security clearance withdrawal as a badge of honor. He stood up to Tricky Dick and the evil GOP who perpetrated Watergate and had an enemies' list that included MLKing. If we go into this knife fight, we better have a gun.
But, but, haven't you heard? Kerry is waiting until after the election to sue the Swiftvets.
About a month or two ago, we were all guessing about the 2001 honorable discharge date, and I was one of a few who surmised it was because of a bad discharge.
I hate it when I am right!
You can imagine the legal team the Kennedy's have provided for sKerry. Lawyers with thugs to back them up.
I couldnt agree with you more...no wonder sKerry didnt/doesnt want us to have access to this military records!
Kerry has all the security clearances of every other senator and maybe more, including compartmented clearances, if he sits on the Intelligence Committee.
Thanks for the link! I can remember Dianne Feinstein or one of those women complaining about not being able to see what they were voting for on blackbox programs because they did not have a high enough clearance. I am beginning to think they get an automatic Secret but to get Top Secret they do have to go through some type of background check. In fact, a lot of their information is higher then a straight Top Secret.
This could very well explain all the absence from these Intelligence briefings along with the Bush Administration wanting all Intelligence briefings in D.C.
I saw it on rumormillnews yesterday---there is more there today. The entire post is on the threat matrix from yesterday. Doesn't sound too good for Kerry. Now who will they pull in----Hillary?
Recall she said that there would be an "October Surprise?"
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Is implied violence allowed? I forget sometimes.
AND tonight Dubya MUST mention that Kerry's operative (his sister) failed in the TRAITOROUS
mission to sow discord with our loyal allies in Austalia.
If there ever was a mission intended to cause DOMESTIC problems by sending an
emissary to a foreign country to spread discord...KERRY and His SISTER should be
the example photo of (true) SEDITION in Webster's Dictionary.
John Kerry belongs there as a THREE-TIME LOSER:
1. Sedition in meeting with the North Vietnamese as US Navy reserve OFFICER
2. Sedition (with Tom Harkin) in kissing Communist Daniel Ortega's @$$ just before
Ortega went off to Moscow for aid and succor
3. Sedition in sending his sister as his personal emissary to Austalia, hoping to dispirit an ally
But there is a positive note. Praise be to Providence...
Even the "Kerry/Kennedy Cachet" couldn't keep our mates in Oz from voting for Howard!
Anybody thought of sending to Ollie North?
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