From USA Today:
...Republicans plan to charge that Kerry is too far to the left. Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie has attacked him as "out of sync" with most voters, and a strategy emerged to go after Kerry on what Democrats see as his strength: national security.
In a speech to the Republican winter meeting today, Gillespie plans to attack Kerry's past votes to cut intelligence budgets. The votes "do not support his assertion that his approach to national security will make us safer as a nation," Gillespie said in an interview.
Kerry's idea of cutting the CIA budget in 1997 is going to be painted as bone-headedly foolish. Which it was.
MORE: Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard, reprinted by CBS News:
On "Fox News Sunday," Kerry also was forced to explain his conflicting positions on gay marriage and the CIA.
...On the CIA, Kerry sponsored a bill to cut $1.5 billion from the budget for intelligence gathering. Then after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001, he asked why America's intelligence wasn't better. His explanation: He wanted the CIA to devote more money to human intelligence and less to technical means. He sought, he explained, "to change the culture of our intelligence gathering." He didn't explain, however, how slashing the CIA budget would achieve that.
MORE: Sen. Kerry, May 1, 1997, introducing into the Congressional Record an article by Sen. Moynihan.
I hope Sen. Kerry is comfortable with having said "Our covert agencies have converted themselves to channels for drugs." This was back when the CIA was allegedly smuggling dope for the Contras.
From a letter to an editor:
In 1986, Sen. John Kerry's Senate Subcommittee on Narcotics and International Terrorism concluded there was substantial evidence of drug smuggling.
Sworn testimony by former DEA agents, former CIA and FBI operatives, Miami police intelligence reports, and articles from over 20 different newspapers and magazines all point in that direction.
Well, it is a good clue about where to look, anyway.
(http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/012197/edit.htm)
I thought everyone knew that.
Posted by: Max B. Sawicky | January 29, 2004 at 11:10 PM
Well, if I keep flying in this direction I will crash into Bill Clinton and his fellow geniuses at the Mensa airstrip in Arkansas. Maybe I can settle for an ominous "Kerry has never been a friend to the CIA", and ignore his response of "tough love".
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