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URGENT! JOHN KERRY'S SHOCKING PRE-9/11 FAILURE!

READ THE ATTACHED INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS REPORT THE BEST WAY TO "WIN ONE MORE FOR THE GIPPER" IS TO INSIST THAT KERRY & GORELICK TESTIFY BEFORE THE 9/11 COMMISSION BEFORE THE HEARINGS END THIS WEEK!!!

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URGENT! JOHN KERRY AND HOMELAND SECURITY! Kerry's Shocking pre-9/11 FAILURE!

The following is the copy of a letter sent to President George W. Bush at the White House. June 14.2004 Dear President Bush, This URGENT message is being sent (in increments of 25, the maximum copies allowed by AOL) to over 2000 of your supporters, numerous simpatico print and electronic journalists, selected 9/11 Commission members and Republican officials (including those who require individual e-mails and faxes). In over 30 years as a journalist (NY Times, etc.), I have never undertaken this kind of initiative. But Kerry's aspirations to take command of our nation and our national security are, by any measure, horrific. Since 2000, the Democrats - abetted by an overwhelmingly leftist media ~ have been abusive in their criticism and have quite effectively set the agenda for national discussion, keeping issues ~ like Abu Gbraib, firing top cabinet members and your administration's so-called culpability for September 11th, etc. ~ on the front burner of public consciousness. Now there is something we can all do about this travesty! A recent article I wrote for NewsMax.com received such an avalanche of e-mails ~ all expressing tremendous outrage about Kerry (and Gorelick) NOT testifying before the 9/11 Commission ~ that it occurred to me this is the perfect subject for your supporters to hammer to the American public, asking why Kerry is being exempted from this duty to his country. The Commission is scheduled to reconvene in Washington, D.C. next week, so the timing is ideal. •^^*

Click here for the article, "Kerry & Company's Homeland Insecurity": ://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/5/27/101QOO.shtml. ••

Included here is the contact information of key resource people who will be available to the media for interviews:

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Brian Sullivan: Tel: 1-508-224-7775; BandBSullffiaol.com Andrew Thomas, author of "Aviation Insecurity": [email protected] David Forbes, aviation-security consultant: [email protected] I am urging the higher-profile people receiving this e-mail to use the full power of their speaking, interviewing and writing skills and/or public visibility to keep this subject alive until ~ and after - the Commission's hearings next week, relentlessly addressing it every minute of every day until November 2nd. And I have no doubt that those who are not in the public eye but who passionately support your candidacy will write, phone radio hosts, and email and fax all media outlets and appropriate governmental agencies and the

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I'm sure that both you and they agree that it's long past due that conservatives drove the national debate! Sincerely yours, Joan Swirsky [email protected]

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Kerry & Company?s Homeland Insecurity Joan Swlraky Thursday, May 27,2004

Whatever the 9/11 Commission report reveals when it is issued at the end of July, it will still lack the testimony of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, whose failure to act ? in light of fair warning and overwhelming evidence ? holds the key to his unacceptability as a national and international leader. Of course the credibility of the report is already in question, given not only its timing, during a presidential election year, but also the blatantly partisan nature of its panel and a number of its interviewees ? all of whom seem unable to resist mugging for the ever-present cameras, grandstanding and offering their own often caustic and slanted opinions. But whatever the Commission? s findings, it? s important to remember that two of the four planes the Islamic terrorists commandeered that fateful September day took off from Logan Airport in Boston, the home turf that Kerry has served as senator for nearly 20 years. While the airline captains, attendants and passengers were completely oblivious to their imminent and horrifying deaths ? having never been warned that anything was amiss ? Kerry cannot claim the same. That is because in May of 2001, four months before our nation was changed forever, Kerry received a letter from Brian Sullivan, who had recently retired as a special agent with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), where he spent over 10 years as a risk-management specialist charged with the security of air traffic control facilities throughout New England

Sullivan? s letter told Kerry that, based on numerous government reports, Logan Airport was especially vulnerable to terrorist infiltration. His letter held these prophetic words: "With the concept of jihad, do you think it would be difficult for a determined terrorist to get on a plane and destroy himself and all other passengers? Think -what the result would be of a coordinated attack that took down several domestic flights on the same day. With our current screening, this is more than possible. It is almost likely.? A few weeks later, Bogdan Dzakovic ? former FAA chief of the national airport-security covert Red Team (which conducted special ops in aviation-security matters) ? was asked to hand-deliver a videotape to Jamie Wise, a staff person in Kerry? s office. He told Wise that the film depicted the ease with which undercover operatives had successfully broken through Logan? s security shields with potentially deadly weapons. Not once but 10 times! ? I received no feedback," Dzakovic said. Shortly after, FAA special agent Steve Elson ? a member of the Red Team, ex-Navy SEAL and the creative force behind the video that revealed Logan? s vulnerability ? prevailed upon Mr. Wise to pass the video along to Kerry. Wise told him, in essence: Sorry, no access to Kerry because you? re not a constituent! Undaunted, Elson tried to reach Kerry? s legislative director, Gregg Rothschild ? again to no avail. http://www.newsmax.conVprinterxfm^

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