Secy. Kerry to CNN on Snowden: "People may die as a consequence of what this man did."

[karynnj]

84. Kerry's testimony was more than that - and he told America many truths

they did not want to hear. He did succeed in moving many against the war.

As to consequences, there were many. His phone was tapped and he was monitored for a year - even though he never broke a law. In a book by Melvin Laird, it was mentioned that the Pentagon decided they should not attempt to charge him. (The fact that he violated no laws did not mean that they could not have done that.) When he ran for office in 1972, Colson provided the right wing newspapers with daily garbage to throw at Kerry - and it often was the front couple of pages . They even went so far as to suggest that he used hard drugs - something he never did and an issue he was trying to get authorities to help vets who did with. Read Tour of Duty - this effort led to people throwing rocks through his window and slashing his tires.

Ultimately, it possibly cost him the Presidency. Even at Yale, were were people who thought he had the right stuff to be president.