Ted Kennedy was a 'collaborationist'

Human Events, Dec 8, 2003 by Romerstein, Herbert

The restrictions that Kennedy successfully put in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act were so tight that when the FBI arrested Zacarias Moussaoui (the so-called 20th highjacker) in August 2001, they could not get permission to download his computer since FBI headquarters understood that they did not have enough evidence to get a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. After 9/11 when they did download his computer they found, among other interesting things, information on the air currents over New York.

After 9/11 Kennedy and other demagogues in the Congress blamed the FBI and CIA for the intelligence failure. The slogan was "they didn't connect the dots." There was no way to connect the dots when they weren't allowed to collect the dots.

Inquiring minds want to know why the first President Bush should present any kind of an award to the anti-American senator who spends so much time attacking the current President Bush.

Mr. Romerstein is a retired U.S. Government official. From 1978 to 1983 he was a Professional Staff member for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He is the author with the late Eric Breindel of The Venona Secrets, Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors, and he is now working on a book on Soviet covert influence operations.