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| Trust me... J. D. Pendry |
| 2008-10-27 |
| J. D. Pendry Have you ever held a job that required a simple background investigation or a security clearance? For much of my time in the Army, my duties required that I have a top secret security clearance. The special background investigation conducted to get and then maintain a top secret security clearance is quite extensive. One must provide 15 years of personal history consisting of references, credit records, relatives, neighbors, affiliations with organizations, workplaces, schools and you name it - and they are all checked. Each 5 years thereafter, all of the information must be updated and checked again. Your life is an open book and if you try to hide any of that your security clearance is lost and you could face serious criminal charges for hiding it. Some of my military jobs required that I be trusted with critically sensitive national security information. The security clearances, which gave me access to information that certainly would damage our national security if it ended up in the wrong hands, was not as high as a Whitehouse level security clearance. So, whenever I hear about a politician, especially one who wants to be our president, refusing to release documents about his personal life it makes me distrust that person with the security of my family and country. Anyone who is not bothered by that either does not realize what is at stake or is just plain ignorant of the world in which we live and the potential for the rapid destruction of our country by our enemies. With the stroke of a pen, the President of the United States can declassify sensitive national security information. When your political alliances include self-admitted communists and people who think it is cute to have their pictures taken standing on the American flag that for me is a problem. Don’t you find it disconcerting that Privates in the Army who work with sensitive information and equipment are more investigated and must meet more stringent security requirements than a potential Commander in Chief? I do. Remember 2004? Dan Rather produced fraudulent and forged documents about George Bush’s military service. Everything about President Bush was scrutinized and largely mischaracterized by the media. John Kerry on the other hand was defended. John Kerry who refused then and still refuses to release his complete military records. Before it was sent into cyber hell, I reviewed the DD Form 214 that John Kerry posted on his website. Within 30 seconds, I saw problems that the average person without knowledge of such records would not have noticed. One of his awards was listed as a Silver Star Medal with a V device. It was clearly an amateurish attempt to present a hero to Americans. In case you might not know it, a Silver Star is awarded for Combat Valor. There is no V device (for Valor) affixed to a Sliver Star. The V device is affixed to awards that are given for Combat Valor when the same award might also be earned for meritorious achievement. Examples are the Bronze Star Medal or the Army Commendation Medal. The second red flag on Mr. Kerry’s DD 214 was the annotation on his discharge concerning a review by a Board of Officers in the authority for discharge. The only reason this annotation would appear on a DD 214 is that if a Board of Officers were required to review for upgrade an Other than Honorable Discharge. If you need your memory refreshed, Thomas Lipscomb wrote interesting articles here and here about Mr. Kerry’s records. The authors of Fake Warriors talked about it here. Mr. Kerry could have cleared up any mystery or allegation simply by releasing all of his military records for public scrutiny. He did not and the mainstream American media while campaigning for him did not insist that he do it either. Mr. Kerry had plenty of questionable political alliances and even documented meetings with the North Vietnamese in Paris while he was still a Naval Reserve officer that was also not addressed in the media. If all of this was widely reported, this charlatan would not have had even a tiny chance of being elected to the Presidency. Fortunately, enough of his history was known to prevent his election. I only rehashed Mr. Kerry’s questionable record and history to demonstrate for you a pattern of deception by liberal candidates and their supportive Pravda like media sycophants attempting to conceal information that voters should know. This is the most dangerous combination in the history of our country. The world’s worst and most dangerous leaders gained power under similar circumstances. Now, we have a candidate that refuses to release what should be harmless documents - his birth and school records. I am not trying to infer anything one way or the other concerning these records. Only that someone who wants to be my President and hold the security of my family and country in his hands should be happy to release documents that tell me who he is. You and I have a right to know. He has an obligation to tell us. The media has an obligation to insist that he does. When there is a refusal to release records, like John Kerry, I can only conclude that there is something to hide. Would you allow someone to sit with your children or to protect your other most precious possessions – like freedom - if you didn’t know everything possible to know about them? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 BO may be the Manchurian Candidate. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-10-27 16:18 |
| #3 Unfortunately the electorate is so angry & confused enough about the economic crisis, that the majority don't care whether or not Obama is the Manchurian candidate bent on crippling this country, only that he stands for "change." Pitiful. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-10-27 11:39 |
| #2 One of the little known flaws in our system - the POTUS/CINC does not undergo any formal and/or official background check worthy of even a Confidential clearance. But you and I both know that the "black" sections do this on an informal basis in order to keep safe those areas they do not want to expose to some one like The One, even if he is POTUS. It will be very interesting to see how much DoD/CIA/NRO etc. really end up trusting this guy. But then the CIA is filled with ex-Clinton types who are probably going to be Obama loyalists. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2008-10-27 08:40 |
| #1 Man's absolutely right. There's way too much we don't know about Bama, and what we DO know makes him look like quite probably the worse Presidential candidate we've had since Aaron Burr. |
| Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-27 06:23 |