Promoted from the diaries -- Trapper.
Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal reviews John Kerry's history of uncovering Iran-Contra and other big government messes.
Though I consider myself relatively well informed, this is stuff I've never heard. Of course the Republicans have every incentive not to publicize Kerry's investigations and the SCLM just plays along with the Repubs. No surprise that Blumenthal's column is published in the Guardian, not any U.S. paper.
Full link.
Choice excerpt:
"From Vietnam onwards, Kerry has probed the inner recesses of government, pursuing a persistent and cumulative investigation into the underside of national security and terrorism. If the Democrats had held the Senate for a sustained period of time, his proposal to regulate the netherworld of money laundering, which was not enacted, might even have helped stymie al-Qaida."
If only...sigh.