Kerry, The Prosecutor: There's little honor in being right too soon.

[IndyOp]

If you haven't read Robert Parry, you don't know John Kerry...

"In December 1985, when Brian Barger and I wrote a groundbreaking story for the Associated Press about Nicaraguan Contra rebels smuggling cocaine into the United States, one U.S. senator put his political career on the line to follow up on our disturbing findings. His name was John Kerry. "

"Kerry assigned members of his personal Senate staff to pursue the allegations."

"He wanted to get to the bottom of something so dark," former public defender Mattes told me. "Nobody could imagine it was so dark."

In the end, investigations by government inspectors general corroborated Kerry's 1989 findings and vindicated his effort. But the muted conclusion of the Contra-cocaine controversy 12 years after Kerry began his investigation explains why this chapter is an overlooked -- though important -- episode in Kerry's Senate career. It's a classic case of why, in Washington, there's little honor in being right too soon. Yet it's also a story about a senator who had the personal honor to do the right thing."

Kerry's Contra-Cocaine Chapter
<http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/102904.html>

The Kerry-Weld Cocaine War
<http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/crack4.html>

[knowbody0]

1. i believe jk is this administration's boogy man

[moesse]

3. I agree

Which gives the Bush team all the more motive in wanting to steal the election - there's a desparation to it when one thinks about what could be lost - Iran Contra - Daddy's papers out of storage (When Bush came into office he lengthened the time that Presidential Papers can be kept from the public, right?) and the knowledge that JFK recognizes just how crooked they are (remember Kerry's conversation, picked up on a microphone about not having ever seen such a crooked bunch?)

I would be floored FLOORED if JFK has not been laying groundwork for much much deeper here than meets the eye.

The term is bloodless coup and you don't step lightly when making such allegations. Thankfully, our man has had some serious experience with bringing illegal activities to light. I think we just have to trust him. Fully.

[seito]

5. I agree with you moesse

Shrub has grave cause for concern.

Welcome to DU!!! :hi:

[Straight Shooter]

2. 12 years for Iran-Contra investigation

Most Americans can't focus their attention for more than 30 minutes.

Can you even begin to imagine bush focusing on something for more than five minutes? Or perhaps a few days, if it will make more dirty money for himself and his "friends."

It makes me sick to realize that so much of America is entranced by stupidity.

[knowbody0]

4. how bout that great american hero oliver north?

denial is so much more comfortable.

[texpatriot2004]

6. Stupid is as stupid does eh? The dumbing of America. n/t

[rodeodance]

7. I have read about this investigation--another one that never came

up in the campaign as far as I know.