Kerry's cycle of lies and deception....

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Kerry on the Record: Attacking U.S. Intelligence

Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com

Thursday, Feb. 19, 2004

See part one of series, POWs and MIAs, part two, Defense, and part three, Ties With Vietnam.

Soon after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was lamenting on CBS’s “Face the Nation” the lack of money the intelligence establishment received despite its vital role in securing the nation:

“And the tragedy is at the moment, the single most important weapon for the United States of America is intelligence. It’s the single most important weapon in this particular war.”

The burning issue then and now: If intelligence is the weapon paramount to security, why did Kerry vote to cut intelligence appropriations over the last decade?

On the record these days, Kerry explains only that his votes and proposals were attempts to change the culture of our intelligence gathering:

“I was on the Intelligence Committee. What we were trying to do, some of us, was push the funding not into technical means. There was a fascination always with satellites, listening devices, not with human intelligence. I’ve always been somebody who has felt that we needed human intelligence, that’s our failure.”

But such a fine line is not so apparent from the record.

In 1994, Kerry proposed and voted to cut $1 billion from intelligence. Specifically, he proposed cutting that $1 billion from the budgets of the National Foreign Intelligence Program and from Tactical Intelligence, while freezing their budgets. The amendment was soundly defeated.

The rub here is that the major component of the National Foreign Intelligence program is the FBI’s nationwide counterterrorism programs. Potentially affected were scores of the bureau’s field offices, which serve as vital components of foreign counterintelligence and counterterrorism within the United States, economic espionage, and ANSIR (the Awareness of National Security Issues and Response program).

Furthermore, Tactical Intelligence is the entity responsible for providing vital, time-sensitive support for commanders and soldiers on the ground.

In 1995, Kerry was at it again, voting to cut $80 million from the FBI’s budget and introducing a bill that would have reduced the overall intelligence budget by $1.5 billion by the year 2000. Without targeting specific programs, Kerry’s bill sought to reduce the intelligence budget by $300 million in each of fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000.

Not Even Kennedy, Leahy or Boxer Would Touch It

Fortunately, there were no co-sponsors of the 1995 bill, which never made it to the floor for a vote.

In 1997, Kerry questioned the size of the intelligence community during a speech on the floor of the Senate:

“[W]hy it is that our vast intelligence apparatus, built to sustain America in the long twilight struggle of the Cold War continues to grow at an exponential rate? Now that that struggle is over, why is it that our vast intelligence apparatus continues to grow even as government resources for new and essential priorities fall far short of what is necessary? Why is it that our vast intelligence apparatus continues to roll on even as every other government bureaucracy is subject to increasing scrutiny and, indeed, to reinvention?”

Ignoring His Own Warnings

What makes Kerry's record even more unfathomable is the fact that he was so savvy to the rising tide of terrorism, in all its forms.

In his 1997 tome, “The New War,” Kerry notes his distress that in the case of the first attack on the World Trade Center, “all these terrorists were apprehended after the fact.”

“We were not sufficiently prepared for the first real wave of terror that broke out in America and we are not yet prepared for the next,” Kerry adds. “Along with crime, commerce, and communication, terror is going global.”

In a fit of remarkable prescience, Kerry writes years before the second attack on the WTC: “The terrorists of tomorrow will be better armed and organized. It will take only one mega-terrorist event in any of the great cities of the world to change the world in a single day.”

Nowadays on his Web site the candidate says: “John Kerry understands that intelligence information is the key to disrupting and dismantling terrorist organizations and that we need to improve our intelligence capabilities, both domestically and internationally, in order to win the war on global terrorism.”

As Kerry is fond of saying: “It’s time to move on.”

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Vietnam POW: Hanoi Hilton Torturers Cited Kerry's Speech

A former Vietnam POW is alleging that his Hanoi captors specifically cited Sen. John Kerry's 1971 anti-war testimony to Congress as they brutally tortured him to get him to turn on his fellow GIs.

One-time Navy pilot Paul Galanti was shot down over North Vietnam in 1966 and spent seven years in the infamous Hanoi Hilton.

He told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday that he learned of Kerry's April 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee while being tortured by his Hanoi Hilton guards.

According to the Times, "during torture sessions, [Galanti] said, his captors cited the antiwar speeches as 'an example of why we should cross over to [their] side.'"

In his account to the Senate, Kerry accused U.S. soldiers of routinely committing rapes, beheadings, mutilations and all manner of atrocities against the Vietnamese people.

Galanti told the Times that Kerry's decision to publicly allege that U.S. soldiers were war criminals "jeopardize[d] those still in battle or in the hands of the enemy."

Because he did, Galanti said, "John Kerry was a traitor to the men he served with."

"The Viet Cong didn't think they had to win the war on the battlefield," the ex-POW said, "because thanks to these protesters they were going to win it on the streets of San Francisco and Washington."

Although Galanti's fellow POW, Sen. John McCain, has been silent in recent years about the damage Sen. Kerry caused as a leader of the radical group Vietnam Veterans Against the War, in 1973 McCain told U.S. News & World Report that throughout his imprisonment, his North Vietnamese captors were "bombarding us with anti-war quotes from people in high places back in Washington."

"This was the most effective propaganda they had to use against us," the Arizona Republican explained.

But Galanti is the first POW to say that his Hanoi Hilton guards expressly invoked Sen. Kerry's words during their brutal torture sessions.

In his comments to the Times, he accused the Democratic presidential front-runner of having blood on his hands, contending, "The Vietnam memorial has thousands of additional names due to John Kerry and others like him."

In a follow-up interview with Fox News Channel's John Gibson, Galanti said he'll take his story directly to the American people if the press fails to expose the truth about candidate Kerry.

"Let me tell you one thing. It looks like John Kerry is going to get the nomination," he told Gibson. "If he does, I'm going to come out of the woodwork, and there's a whole bunch of us [who feel] the same way."

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/2/19/92734.shtml

Thursday, Feb. 19, 2004 9:26 a.m. EST

Novak: Investigate Kerry's 'Hanoi Jane' Connection

Longtime Beltway commentator and columnist Robert Novak says it's time for the press to probe Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry's ties to "Hanoi Jane" Fonda just as thoroughly as reporters went after bogus allegations that President Bush went AWOL from the National Guard.

Novak has uncovered new evidence that the anti-American actress and the Massachusetts Democrat were much more closely associated than either Fonda or Kerry now admit.

He reports:

"A 34-year-old flier lists speakers for an anti-Vietnam War rally at Valley Forge State Park, Pa., Sept. 7, 1970. Included were two of that era's most notorious leftist agitators, the Rev. James Bevel and Mark Lane, plus actress Jane Fonda, a symbol of extreme opposition to the war. Leading off the list was a less familiar name: John Kerry."

After Valley Forge, Fonda adopted Kerry's group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, as her "leading cause," according to Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley.

Minutes for a Sept. 11, 1970, meeting of the VVAW reveal a plan to "coordinate with Jane Fonda's speaking tour," says Novak. She and actor Donald Sutherland, who was also on hand for Valley Forge, had dubbed their road show the "F*** the Army" tour, according to several books chronicling the anti-war movement.

Novak also reveals that "a later VVAW staff meeting decided to bar the American flag from the organization's offices." At the time, Kerry held the official title of the group's National Coordinator; Fonda was named Honorary National Coordinator.

So, how probable is it that they barely knew each other, as Fonda and Kerry now maintain? Not very.

Concludes Novak:

"Documents show they shared the same platform and the same wing of the anti-war movement. That is surely as valid as investigating how many National Guard drills Bush attended."