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The Kerry Line: Fellow Senators Call For Kerry To Release Attendance At Private Intelligence Committee Hearings(title edited for length) "John Kerry served on the Intelligence Committee from 1993 to 2000, and according to official records, John Kerry missed 76 percent of the public Senate Intelligence Committee hearings during that time. This figure doesn’t include his attendance at closed door meetings. Those records can only be released to the public at John Kerry’s request. This is something that needs to be done, and I join Senator Roberts, Senator Chambliss, Senator Cornyn, and Senator Coleman and others in calling on him to...

The Kerry campaign is misleading Americans and distorting the facts of his intelligence record. Their flailing attacks and efforts to distract from his record do not change the facts. John Kerry missed 76 percent of Senate Intelligence meetings during his time on the Committee (1993-2000). John Kerry also proposed $6 billion in across the board intelligence cuts in 1994, the year after the first bombing of the World Trade Center. Kerry's Poor Attendance John Kerry skipped 38 of 49 public intelligence hearings during his time on the Senate Intelligence Committee. This count is based on records where Kerry's name was...

ARLINGTON, VA -- Bush-Cheney '04 announced today the release of the campaign's newest television advertisement, "Intel."  The new advertisement highlights John Kerry's proposals to cut intelligence funding and his poor attendance record on the Senate Intelligence Committee. The advertisement will begin airing Monday on national cable and in select local markets.Script for "Intel"President Bush:I'm George W. Bush and I approve this message.Voice Over:John Kerry promises ... Graphic:John Kerry promises ...John Kerry:I will immediately reform the intelligence system.Voice Over:Oh really... As a member of the Intelligence Committee, Senator Kerry was absent for 76 percent of the Committee's hearings.Graphic:John Kerry...ABSENT76% of publicSenate...

Two decades of votes cast by Sen. John Kerry to cut military and intelligence spending could make him vulnerable to charges of being soft on defense in the 2004 presidential election, say some top political and defense analysts. (SNIP) Political and defense analysts also say that Mr. Kerry's anti-defense spending record could become one of his strategic weaknesses as the Democratic presidential nominee running in an age of terrorism. (SNIP) "It's pretty well established that he was more or less automatically against increasing defense spending on particular programs, although he was not alone in that. He was not someone who...