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!
The old FR fishbowl.
Sounds like a DOD clearance -- not that big of a deal.
If this breaks, at the very least it will allow a lot of people to hear the Kerry Paris Peace Talks story for the firat time. That could be worth 1 to 2 points on Nov 3.
But if it does break hot, it could do real damage to Team Kerry.
Was it SOP?
Statements with the potential power of those two need proof.
Our wishing won't make it effective.
ping
In the words of a certain famous Freeper,
This needs to be pursued aggressively.
I thought to be a CIC you had to be able to get TS clearance?
I had SAR clearance and they had all kinds of requirements you had to meet.
Kerry is going to lose big with this one, good job MB26!
Some things never change. He still doesn't know what time it is, he thinks, or at least wants us to think, it's September 10, 2001.
crossing my fingers....again.
Nonsense. He was enabled by the mainstream media and you know it. That won't ever happen again like it did then. The internet is changing lives.
Kerry was still campaigning in the dark ages?
You don't know what you are talking about. Nixon DID NOT do what Kerry wanted. Kerry got his marching orders from the enemy in Paris. He turned his back on America and don't fool yourself...he'll turn his back on you if it suits him.
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Kerry isn't even qualified to run for office due to his war protesting.
If you don't know the poster of this thread, than stick a sock in it.
LOL Thanks for the high rhetorical standards.
This story needs names and documents to go anywhere. Without them it won't.
Not to worry, the story will break on Rush, Hannity, Levin and/or Savage -- one way or it will break.
Deserving a BTTT!
bump for later reading/viewing
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