On Friday, December 21, Barack Obama announced his second choice to replace the soon-to-be disgraced Hillary Rodham Clinton as Secretary of State.\u00a0 After unceremoniously tossing his U.N. Ambassador, Susan Rice, under the Benghazi cover-up bus, he announced his intention to appoint Senator John Kerry (D-MA), the party\u2019s unsuccessful candidate for president in 2004.<\/p>\n
In making the announcement, Obama said, \u201cAs we turn the page on a decade of war, he (Kerry) understands that we’ve got to harness all elements of American power and ensure that they\u2019re working together.\u00a0 John has earned the respect and confidence of leaders around the world.\u201d\u00a0 Then, in what can only be interpreted as a back-handed reference to his own lack of experience, Obama concluded by saying, \u201cHe is not going to need a lot of on-the-job training.\u201d<\/p>\n
Well, that depends.\u00a0 The last time we had a chance to evaluate Kerry\u2019s fitness for high public office was in November 2006 when he let it be known that he felt he deserved a second chance at the presidency in 2008.\u00a0 Oddly enough, I agreed.\u00a0 Not because I thought he\u2019d make a halfway decent president, but because it would have provided us with yet another opportunity to see the last 100 pages of his military records \u2013 the military records that he has buried every bit as deeply as Obama has buried every conceivable record of his life prior to 2008.<\/p>\n
So what do we actually know about Kerry\u2019s military service?\u00a0 We know that he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve on February 18, 1966 for a six year commitment, ending on February 17, 1972; that he was commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Navy on December 16, 1966; and that he left the Navy sometime in either 1971 or 1972.\u00a0 However, records released during his 2004 campaign for the White House provide little or no information regarding his release from active duty.\u00a0 Instead, documents displayed on his official website indicated that he received an honorable discharge on February 16, 1978, six years after his commitment ended.<\/p>\n
The cover letter transmitting his February 1978 discharge papers, signed by Navy Secretary, W. Graham Claytor, indicated that the honorable discharge was granted at the \u201cdirection of the president,\u201d and upon \u201cthe approved recommendations of a board of officers convened\u2026 to examine the official records of officers of the Naval Reserve on inactive duty\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u201capproved recommendations of a board of officers?\u201d\u00a0 Why was it necessary for a \u201cboard of officers\u201d to study Kerry\u2019s fitness for an honorable discharge, six years after his enlistment was over?\u00a0 According to an October 13, 2004 story by Thomas Lipscomb in the New York Sun<\/em>, the referenced sections of the U.S. Code authorizing such an evaluation refer to \u201cthe grounds for <\/em>involuntary separation\u201d<\/em> from military service (emphasis added).<\/p>\n Had Kerry received an honorable discharge when his six-year enlistment was completed, would there have been the need for a recommendation by a \u201cboard of officers\u201d six years later?\u00a0 Is it not reasonable to assume that the action taken by a board of officers in 1978 was to upgrade<\/em> Kerry\u2019s 1972 discharge, whatever it was, from something less than honorable to an honorable discharge?<\/p>\n What makes this matter even more intriguing is to place it in political context.\u00a0 Jimmy Carter was inaugurated on January 20, 1977. \u00a0His first official act was to sign a general amnesty, Executive Order 4483, covering all Vietnam era draft dodgers and war resisters.\u00a0 Those with long memories will recall that Carter was so anxious to sign the executive order that his staff had it waiting for him on a desk inside the Capitol rotunda.\u00a0\u00a0 He took the Oath of Office, delivered his inaugural address, walked inside the Capitol building, and signed the order. \u00a0(Note: Another beneficiary of Carter\u2019s Executive Order was the then-unknown Arkansas Attorney General Bill Clinton, who was pardoned for having ignored an order to report for active duty in July 1969.)<\/p>\n In other words, Kerry did not receive an honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy until thirteen months after Carter signed EO 4483.\u00a0 According to the Lipscomb story, \u201cBy the time it became a directive from the Defense Department in March 1977 (two months later), EO 4483 had been expanded to include other offenders who may have had general, bad conduct, or dishonorable discharges\u2026\u201d<\/em> (emphasis added).<\/p>\n What gives even greater credence to the suspicion that Kerry may have received a dishonorable discharge is the mystery of his missing medals.\u00a0 It should be noted here that, in the event of a dishonorable discharge, military regulations require that all pay, benefits, and allowances are forfeited, along with all medals and decorations<\/em>.\u00a0 Kerry has claimed that he lost or misplaced all of his medal certificates.\u00a0 However, after<\/em> receiving an honorable discharge in February 1978, and five months after<\/em> being sworn into office as a member of the United States Senate in January 1985, all of his medals were restored to him on a single day: June 4, 1985.<\/p>\n So the question remains, what type of discharge did Kerry receive when he left the Navy in 1971 or 1972?\u00a0 And if he was dishonorably discharged, what grounds existed?<\/p>\n As a leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and while still an officer in the Naval Reserves, Kerry met with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong negotiators in Paris in May 1970.\u00a0 He obtained a copy of the Communist peace proposal and in July 1971, seven months before<\/em> the completion of his six-year Navy commitment, he gave aid and comfort to the enemy by leading a demonstration in Washington demanding that the Nixon Administration accept the seven-point peace plan, word-for-word, as proposed by the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong.<\/p>\n Although the evidence is largely circumstantial, it is sufficient to raise suspicions that Kerry was given a \u201cless than honorable\u201d discharge in either 1971 or 1972.\u00a0 Beginning in 2004, he promised repeatedly that he would sign Standard Form 180, releasing all of his military records for public inspection.\u00a0 Maybe he has, but has he been carrying the release around in his briefcase for eight years, unable to find a mailbox? \u00a0The Washington Post <\/em>has reported that the Navy continues to withhold some 100 pages of Kerry\u2019s military documents.<\/p>\n Should we learn one day that Secretary of State John Kerry was dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Navy, what then?\u00a0 In recent times we have had a Democratic president who lied under oath in a court of law and who was subsequently impeached and disbarred.\u00a0 Can the American people handle another scandal in which an illegally elected Democratic president appoints a \u00a0Secretary of State who was dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Navy?<\/p>\n If anyone knows the truth of the matter\u2026 other than John Kerry\u2026 it would be the FSB, the Russian Federal Security Service, formerly known as the KGB.<\/p>\n The July 3, 2012 edition of Pravda <\/em>contains the following report:\u00a0 \u201cOn April 27, 2011<\/a>, President Barack Obama walked into the White House press room with a Cheshire cat-like grin and a \u2018Long Form Birth Certificate\u2019 from the State of Hawaii in hand.\u00a0 From the podium in the press room<\/a>, Mr. Obama said, \u2018We\u2019re not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers.\u2019 \u00a0Quite the barb from a man holding a forged document.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s right, forged.\u00a0 The president himself created the scene; one filled (with) laughter from an adoring press corps, a scene of unprecedented fanfare while holding a forged document which was later posted on the White House website.\u201d<\/p>\n It is widely known that Barack Obama has promised Russian President Vladimir Putin that, after his reelection, he would have far more flexibility in making concessions in nuclear disarmament talks.\u00a0 We\u2019ve all seen the videotape.\u00a0 So if the Russians are aware that Obama is ineligible to be president\u2026 his presence in the Oval Office supported by nothing more than forged documents\u2026 and if their FSB agents are able to reach deep into the Pentagon archives to learn that the man sent by Obama to negotiate with them once received a dishonorable discharge from the U.S. Navy, what sort of outcome could we expect from a new round of nuclear disarmament talks?<\/p>\n More importantly, what if the Russians shared their information with the Iranians, who\u2019ve sworn to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth? \u00a0With that information held over their heads, Obama and Kerry would almost certainly choose personal political survival over the survival of the Jewish state and the Israelis would be left totally at the mercy of their most dangerous enemies.\u00a0 What this means is that the vaunted Israeli lobby in Washington had better get busy convincing Jewish members of the U.S. Senate\u2026 Michael Bennet<\/a> (D-CO), Richard Blumenthal<\/a> (D-CN), Barbara Boxer<\/a> (D-CA), Ben Cardin<\/a> (D-MD), Dianne Feinstein<\/a> (D-CA), Al Franken<\/a> (D-MN), Frank Lautenberg<\/a> (D-NJ), Carl Levin<\/a> (D-MI), Bernie Sanders<\/a> (I-VT), Charles Schumer<\/a> (D-NY), and Ron Wyden<\/a> (D-OR)\u2026 to demand that Obama and Kerry produce convincing evidence, if it exists, that Kerry was not at one time dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Navy.<\/p>\n Kerry must clear up this mystery before the Senate is required to vote on his confirmation as Secretary of State.\u00a0 Just as the mainstream media has refused to demand that Obama prove who he is, we cannot expect them to press Kerry for answers about his military record.\u00a0 Once again, it is left to those of us in the alternative media to press the issue.<\/p>\n If Diogenes were alive today, and if he were asked to find just one \u201cclean\u201d Democrat suitable for high public office, he would be a very frustrated man.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Friday, December 21, Barack Obama announced his second choice to replace the soon-to-be disgraced Hillary Rodham Clinton as Secretary of State.\u00a0 After unceremoniously tossing his U.N. Ambassador, Susan Rice, under the Benghazi cover-up bus, he announced his intention to … Continue reading