The Secret Origin Of Kerry's Anti-Terrorism

[DrFunkenstein]

The time: 1986. After years of investigating Oliver North (who had the FBI counter-investigate for discrediting dirt). Kerry had recently forced Eliot Abrams (now in charge of Middle Eastern Affairs) to pergure himself.

"Suddenly, Kerry's theories didn't seem so far-fetched. He hoped this would be his moment to help lead the investigation into this extraordinary episode. The Iran-contra scandal was the top story in town, and there was worried talk in the halls of Congress that the United States might suffer another failed presidency.

But when congressional leaders chose the members of the elite Iran-contra committee, Kerry was left off. Those selected were consensus-politicians, not bomb-throwers.

The feeling among a disappointed Kerry and his staff was that the committee members were chosen to put a lid on things. "He was told early on they were not going to put him on it," Winer recalls. "He was too junior and too controversial . . .. They were concerned about the survival of the republic."

Even some Democrats "thought John was a little hotter than they would like," says Rosenblith.

As a consolation prize, the Democratic leadership gave Kerry chairmanship of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations."

http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/062003.shtml

Ten years later, in 1997, he published a book on his findings with this chillingly prescient warning: "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."

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1. But, we've been assured that he copied it from D...others.

Because Kerry never does anything unless D...others do it first.