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| CIA continues to conceal JFK assassination files. But here's what we do know |
| 2021-11-22 |
| [Miami Herald] As a professional journalist who has been reporting on the assassination of John F. Kennedy for almost 30 years, I have long been skeptical about the pursuit of a proverbial "smoking gun" that supposedly will blow open the case of the murdered president. When the congressional deadline for the release of the last of the JFK files approached last month, I instinctively advised friends that there would no smoking gun in the released material. After all, no serious investigative reporter seeks a single piece of evidence to decisively prove some kind of wrongdoing. To the contrary, good investigative journalism assembles myriad pieces of evidence into a mosaic that depicts a granular story of wrongdoing not previously visible to the public and law enforcement. Most prize-winning journalistic investigations do not depend on, or even feature, a "smoking gun" piece of evidence. So why should the JFK assassination story? As the editor of the JFK Facts blog, I report on new pieces of evidence that filled in blank spaces in the historical record of JFK’s assassination. Think mosaic, not smoking gun. But when the Biden White House announced late in the evening of Oct. 22 that the last of the JFK documents would not be released until December 2022 at the earliest, I began to rethink my caution. Friday nights are traditionally when the White House press office takes out the president’s smelliest garbage in hopes that the stench will pass by Monday morning. The announcement that the CIA and other federal agencies had delayed compliance with the 1992 JFK Records Act for the second time in four years was a story the White House understandably wanted to go away. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 The only reason our president would want to keep these matters away from the public would be that they were embarrassing to his party. There are only two things that could be embarrassing.. One is a Cuban or USSR connection to the assassination, that the government suppressed, supposedly to avoid domestic pressre for retaliation. This one is plausible since Oswald spent years in the Soviet Ubnion, and was very fond of the Castro regime in Cuba. The other is a Johnson connection to the assassination, on one to Ruby who killed Oswald. This would have been done to protect the new government from popular anger. No sign of such connections have ever been voiced, as far as I can tell. |
| Posted by: Goober Choluque6459! 2021-11-22 15:02 |
| #4 It's because JFK knew Jimmy Hoffa, isn't it? |
| Posted by: Raj 2021-11-22 10:41 |
| #3 qui bono? lbj |
| Posted by: irish rage boy 2021-11-22 09:14 |
| #2 On the day JFK was killed, a man named George H. W. Bush was in Houston, TX overseeing the operation on behalf of the CIA. To obscure his true location, he called in a fake tip to the FBI that same afternoon from "Tyler, TX". Classic spycraft. Here's the memo from the phone call. George Bush Sr. displaying "duper's delight", a common psychological reaction to getting away a lie, smiling at JFK Assassination commentary. |
| Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 2021-11-22 02:42 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-11-22 01:22 |