T.S. How fishy do you think this smells
"Multimillion-Dollar Incentive to 'Reward Vietnam'
Shortly after Kerry declared to the world, ?President Bush should reward Vietnam within a month for its increased cooperation in accounting for American MIAs,? Vietnam announced it had granted Colliers International, based in Boston, a contract worth millions.
Designating Colliers International as the exclusive real estate agent representing Vietnam, the communist regime positioned the company to rake in tens of millions of dollars in future contracts to upgrade Vietnam?s ports, railroads and other infrastructure.
C. Stewart Forbes, chief executive officer of Colliers International, is John Forbes Kerry?s cousin.
The saga, however, does not end there. There remains the nettlesome matter of the document shredding.
John F. McCreary, a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst assigned to Kerry?s committee, is a member of the Virginia State Bar and consequently saw an obligation to report what he suspected was misconduct by Kerry, also an attorney governed by the lawyers? ethic code.
McCreary felt duty-bound to report knowledge of Kerry?s document shredding ? specifically, the intelligence briefing text - to Vice Chairman Bob Smith.
Kerry: Destroy All Copies
A memorandum by McCreary: ?Sen. John Kerry ... told the Select Committee members that ?all copies? would be destroyed. This statement was made in the presence of the undersigned and of the Staff Chief Counsel who offered no protest.?
On April 9, 1992, McCreary verified that the original document was destroyed, as well as 14 copies.
The McCreary memo continued: ?On 15 April 1992, the Staff Chief Counsel, J. William Codinha ... ridiculed the Staff members for expressing their concerns; and replied, in response to questions about the potential consequences, ?Who?s the injured party,? and ?How are they going to find out because its classified.??
To defuse the growing crisis, on April 16 Kerry stated that the original documents had remained in the Office of Senate Security all along, so nothing wrong had been done.
But according to McCreary: ?The Staff Director had deposited a copy of the intelligence briefing text in the Office of Senate Security at 1307 on 16 April.?
Kerry had, according to McCreary, ordered a non-original copy of the document entered into the Office of Senate Security, but only after protests from staff caused him to rethink complete destruction of the documents. '
