"Throughout the 1990’s John Kerry, Senator from Massachusetts, asked this question, as published in the Congressional Record on May 1, 1997, “Now that [the Cold War] struggle is over, why is it that our vast intelligence apparatus continues to grow…” In fact he produced several pieces of legislation calling for reductions in funding for the American intelligence community. In 1994 Kerry introduced S.B. 1826 that proposed cutting $1 billion from the budgets of the National Foreign Intelligence Program and from Tactical Intelligence, and freezing their budgets. In 1995 he introduced Senate Bill 1290 that would have “reduced the Intelligence budget by $300 million in each of fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000,” $1.5 billion overall. For John Kerry to be traipsing around the country pointing fingers at George W. Bush for “deceiving” the American public while the very reason our intelligence was compromised in the first place is directly related to his actions is the height of hypocrisy and, quite frankly, deceptive."
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