The late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) was an incredibly
powerful and influential politician whose impact on America will
be felt forever but none of this changes the fact that he was a
terrible person.
I feel for him in a way because he must have been tormented by
all the tragedies in his family. All that pain and pressure
surely got to him. This doesn't excuse his behavior. Plenty
of other people have lived through hell without embracing
recklessness as a lifestyle choice, but I understand how these
devastating events must have twisted him.
May his tortured soul rest in peace.
With that said, why is hardly anybody talking about the credible
allegations that the late senator may have committed a form of
treason against the United States?
Connie Hair at Human
Events spells it out in an article.
But Kennedy's private outreach to the KGB Soviet intelligence
agency in attempts to undermine first President Jimmy Carter
then President Ronald Reagan say as much as Chappaquiddick did
about the man who appeared to have no moral restraints
whatsoever on his personal pursuit of raw political power.
Documents found in Soviet archives after the fall of the Iron
Curtain revealed a great deal about the character of Ted
Kennedy. [...]
Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, found
contemporaneous KGB documentation and published a story in
February of 1992 of an additional communiqué by Ted Kennedy to
the Soviet intelligence agency through Tunney. Full text
of the letter from the appendix of Paul Kengor's book The
Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism
can be found
here.
This time it was President Reagan in Kennedy's crosshairs as he
attempted to arrange a meeting between Kennedy and General
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union Yuri Andropov.
Without diminishing the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, I suspect the
fact that Sen. Kennedy caused her death will ultimately be
regarded by historians as one of his lesser offenses.
