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While the media and the left lionize Kennedy praising all the great socialist programs he supported, his seamier side is getting more and more exposure.  Other articles in this site and others have documented in detail Kennedy’s association with former Soviet head Andropov with his attempts to roadblock Reagans anti-soviet efforts.  However this was not his first or only attempt to provide aid to the Soviets.  From American Thinker, we have the following.

What is not generally known is that Kennedy collaborated with the Soviets well before Reagan was elected, and had a direct hand in crafting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. As a result of his efforts—which appear in retrospect to have been crafted to prevent detection of his seditious activities—the FBI was prevented from accessing critical intelligence that could have warned of 9-11.

The restrictions that Kennedy successfully put in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act were so tight that when the FBI arrested Zacarias Moussaoui (the so-called 20th highjacker) in August 2001, they could not get permission to download his computer since FBI headquarters understood that they did not have enough evidence to get a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

Could intelligence freedom have made the difference?  No one can say for sure but

After 9/11 when they did download his computer they found, among other interesting things, information on the air currents over New York.

Even with this indirect evidence, one can conclude that Kennedy did hinder our nation from defending itself numerous times.

It is worthwhile to reflect that while Republicans and Democrats alike lionize the fallen “Lion of the Senate,” with their silence they implicitly condone potentially seditious activities that may have contributed to the loss of 2,998 American lives, the most costly single attack on American soil in U.S. history.