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!
I don't care if the Pope posted it without some reference
it's just an opinion piece. The internet is overburdened with
traffic like this.
Brings the statements he made earlier this year about recently "meeting with foreign leaders" to a whole new level, doesn't it...?
Valid questions assuming that MindBender's source is good:
When was his clearance reinstated?
What did it take to get the reinstatement; e.g.; renouncement of foreign ties? Special Non-Disclosure Agreement?
Will he undergo a new investigation for clearance if elected? Or has he already undergone investigation? And if so, how has he been able to obtain a reinstatement of a security clearance?
They would have pulled the TS for his senate spew on war crimes as well in 71.
You must also be proud of Bill Clinton.
Get real.
1. Interesting that you are silent on the atrocities committed by NVA/VC.
2. The war was not illegal.
3. Kerry did not shorten the war. He prolonged it and the pullout of the US set the stage for millions of deaths in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia at the hands of the communist regimes.
Attempting to re-write history to favor the communist agenda will not work.
Kerry's allies are players in the Axis of Evil.
I would be very surprised to find that Kerry held a TS clearance after leaving active duty. Since he would have no "need to know" he would have been debriefed and signed out of the program.
In my experiance, I only held a clearance as high as was required to perform my duties. And that was tied to the command/job I held. I have carried TS/SCI clearances on active duty and as a civilian contractor. If the job I was in no longed required a particular level of access, you were debriefed.
I'm not saying that's how it was. I'm saying that's how they will try to spin it, if they know anything about military clearances.
Hope this gets out! Far & Wide!!
If you get a link would you please ping me? I would like to send it to WLW radio here in Cincy. They just did a report on Kerry's dishonorable discharge and his refusal to release 32 pages of his records.
Didn't he serve on that as a Senator? Isn't he still on it? Hasn't he been missing meetings? Or am I confused with meetings he has been invited to as a Presidential candidate?
As a senator would he automatically recieve security clearance?
Seems he was on the committe between 1993 and 2000
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1243912/posts?page=90#90
Well, maybe. Only if proven by genuine Navy documents from the 1970's.
Being Commander in Chief gets you all the clearances you want.
If someone gets elected President, it's not like there's a background check to see if they can get intel briefings.
BTTT
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