Kerry passes up terror briefing: "I just haven't had time"

Fri Jul 09 2004 09:23:56 ET -- Just hours before attending an all-star celebrity fundraising concert in New York, Dem presidential candidate John Kerry revealed how he has been too busy for a real-time national security briefing.
"I just haven't had time," Kerry explained in an interview. (Source: Drudge Report) Kerry made the startling comments on CNN's LARRY KING LIVE
Thursday night:

KING: News of the day, Tom Ridge warned today about al Qaeda plans of a large-scale attack on the United States. Didn't increase the -- you see any politics in this? What's your reaction?

KERRY: Well, I haven't been briefed yet, Larry. They have offered to brief me. I just haven't had time . . .