Koreagate
Boston Herald chastises the press for ignoring a blockbuster story:
The Associated Press reported this past week that a South Korean national who met with John Kerry’s fund-raisers and discussed setting up a new political group for Korean-Americans was actually an intelligence agent for South Korea.Chung Byung-Man, a counselor official in Los Angeles prior to being shipped back home in May, was, in fact, a member of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, the equivalent of our CIA.
Chung’s campaign fund-raising activities would be in violation of the 1963 Vienna Convention that prohibits foreign officials from interfering in the internal politics of the host nation.
The Kerry campaign insists it knew nothing about Chung’s real position until informed by the Associated Press. But the AP reported it was alerted to meetings between Chung and the Kerry campaign and to Chung’s real identity by Democratic donors and fund-raisers who were uncomfortable with Chung’s activities. Chung was registered with the Justice Department as a foreign intelligence agent on U.S. soil.
Sunday reads.
Remember all the gnashing of teeth about the detainees at Gitmo being held as ‘enemy combatants’ without trial, etc. Just like POWs are held during a period of war? Here’s why you hold guys like that: Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar, reportedly…