Reply #100: Kerry didn't just 'push' for hearings. He risked his life and career to investigate IranContra, BCCI

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and CIA drugrunning - covert criminal operations and policies that many of the more powerful members of his own party agreed with at the time. At one point he had to wear bullet-proof vest - he was extremely unpopular in DC and many of the snarky rumors about him were planted at this time, with even Congressman Dick Cheney telling the press Kerry was a 'conspiracy theory nut' and RW journalists accusing Kerry of exaggerating his discoveries so he could get on TV. There were no Dem lawmakers backing Kerry up, but, there were plenty protecting Reagan and Bush, that is, until Kerry uncovered so much dirt that the other Dems couldn't ignore it anymore or keep it out of the press, which wasn't totally fascist back then.