News management may have reached an embarrassing low in the Los Angeles Times for March 23 where an article by staff writer John M. Glionna purports to offer selections from the FBI file on soon-to-be Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry, who was under surveillance by the G-Men as a member of the executive board of the pro-Viet Cong Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
Presenting items from 50 documents carefully selected from what it reported were 14 boxes of related government papers 12 feet high, the Times confirmed from the FBI and other witnesses that Kerry had resigned from the VVAW leadership in November 1971 at a Kansas City board meeting to run for Congress.
For years Kerry claimed that he had resigned after a July 1971 meeting in St. Louis and had not been present for the Kansas City meeting that was moved from venue to venue to try to avoid FBI surveillance of the group's most secret plans.
The reason official confirmation that he did not leave the group until after the Kansas City meeting is important, say specialists on radical activities during the Vietnam era, is that the FBI documents confirm earlier reports by those present that Kerry participated in a closed-door discussion of a proposal to assassinate seven U.S. senators who were special targets of Hanoi, with whose agents selected leaders of VVAW had been meeting.
The Los Angeles Times made no mention of this part of the story, broken 10 days earlier in the New York Sun by founding New York Times books editor Tom Lipscomb and since spiked by editors coast to coast.
Kerry reportedly voted against the killings but did not leave the meeting and call a cop. Until the FBI surveillance report surfaced to put him in the middle of the assassination discussion, Kerry claimed to have resigned before the meeting at which VVAW discussed the murder plan.
After Kerry left the board of VVAW, with which he had made his national reputation, the FBI ceased surveillance of his activities according to a bureau memo in early 1972. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=37706
Kerry really hated America enough to discuss killing off it's leaders. Why does that not suprise me?
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He hated the Vietnam war enough to be involved in an organisation that got hi-jacked by nuts, like so many radical organisations at the time, and he didn't leave early enough. That shows a serious lack of judgment, for sure. I don't think it shows that he 'hates America.'
'If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning, concerning matterof fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it contains nothing but sophistry and illusion.'
'The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.'
He hated the Vietnam war enough to be involved in an organisation that got hi-jacked by nuts, like so many radical organisations at the time, and he didn't leave early enough. That shows a serious lack of judgment, for sure. I don't think it shows that he 'hates America.'
He has shown a serious lack of judgement his entire life.
I believe he did hate his country.
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Kerry Friend 'Bo' Dietl 'Shocked' by Assassination Plot
Legendary former New York City homicide detective "Bo" Dietl said Saturday that he was "shocked" by reports that Sen. John Kerry participated in a 1971 Kansas City meeting of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War where a plot to assassinate seven U.S. senators was considered.
"I was shocked listening to the story," Dietl told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley, who had just broadcast an update by the reporter who broke the news last week, the New York Sun's Thomas Lipscomb.
"I like John very, very much as a person," said Dietl, who's a personal friend of the Massachusetts Democrat. "But if this has any validity to it, it could be earth-shattering."
Dietl said Kerry may have committed a crime if he took part in any discussions about the assassination plot.
"When you talk about killing somebody, that's conspiracy to commit murder," he told Crowley. "At the point you talk about it you're guilty of a crime."
Dietl said it made no difference whether or not the plot was carried out, telling Crowley, "By just talking about it, it's the crime of conspiracy."
The former lawman, who now operates his own security firm, Beau Dietl & Associates, urged his old friend to come clean about the 1971 episode, warning, "Once they start to cover things up, that's when the crimes are going to start to begin again."
Dietl went out of his way to assure Crowley that, despite his comments, he has a warm relationship with the likely Democratic nominee, explaining: "John Kerry is a friend of mine. He was at my birthday party. I was at Mara Lago with him last year and he's a good person."
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