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    MAINSTREAM COOLER - For those who believe mainstream contemporary facts.

    in Water Coolers

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    From an article today in The Guardian newspaper:

    Special counsel worried jurors would see Biden 'as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory'

    Special counsel Robert Hur wrote that he was concerned jurors would not believe that Joe Biden “willfully” kept classified documents, and that was one of the reasons why he does not think the president should face charges.

    “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Hur writes.

    “Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him – by then a former president well into his eighties – of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”

    Hur wrote that: “Mr. Biden’s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017, and in his interview with our office in 2023. And his cooperation with our investigation, including by reporting to the government that the Afghanistan documents were in his Delaware garage, will likely convince some jurors that he made an innocent mistake, rather than acting willfully – that is, with intent to break the law – as the statute requires.”

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    MAINSTREAM COOLER - For those who believe mainstream contemporary facts.

    in Water Coolers

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    5 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:

    Well, good for these students.

    When I was an undergrad at Brown in the 70s, I participated in the student movement protesting South African apartheid, referenced in this Guardian article.

    Nothing major, but I think I ended up on an FBI watch list.

    Brown U. figured in Watergate. Howard Hunt and Chuck Colson were members of the Washington, D.C. chapter of Brown U. Alumni. Hunt persuaded Colson to hire him at the White House. Once there Hunt starting quietly working to drive Nixon from office, taking his orders from CIA Director Helms. When it was all over, both Colson and Hunt went to prison. I can imagine how Colson wished that he had never known Hunt.

    Paul Landis Revelation About Assassination Bullet

    in JFK Assassination Debate

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    Lee D. Shepherd wrote on Facebook today:

    A word about Secret Service agent Paul Landis. What does his account mean?
     
    When Landis helped Mrs. Kennedy out of the car at Parkland Hospital, he saw an intact bullet on the back seat where the top would [normally] be secured. Two large bullet fragments were found in the front seat of the limo, and slivers of lead fragments were recovered from an area below the jump seat where the governor’s wife, Nellie Connally, had been sitting. Landis claims he placed it on JFK’s gurney at Parkland Hospital. His disclosure came sixty years after the fact which is understandable as it raises many questions and places the “magic bullet” theory in doubt. The supposition was that the retrieved intact bullet had been discovered on Governor Connally’s gurney, not Kennedy’s. It was from this assumption, in part, that the Warren Commission reached its pivotal conclusion: The available evidence indicates that “the bullet found on the Governor’s stretcher”—the single bullet—“could have caused all his wounds.” Also, amid the blood and gore, Landis remembers, were two bullet fragments on the back seat, next to where Jackie had been sitting.
    Of the eight agents in the follow up car, code-named “Halfback,” none but 31-year-Clint Hill made any move to catch the president’s limo, and no one returned fire, even though some of them were equipped with automatic weapons. The media report that “Secret Service men immediately unslung their automatic weapons and pistols,” was an incorrect statement. Landis, the agent stationed on the right side of the follow-up vehicle, remained frozen and never relinquished his hold on the door grip. Landis might just as well have been somewhere else that afternoon. These were supposedly men honed to a matchless edge, but on that bright clear sunny day, there was near total lack of response. Had the Secret Service men reacted as they should have...the sniper crouching behind that window would certainly not have been able to get off a second or third shot, as the Commission says he did.”
    Landis' statement from his book, that he was momentarily suffering from PTSD, is unacceptable

    MAINSTREAM COOLER - For those who believe mainstream contemporary facts.

    in Water Coolers

    Posted · Edited by Douglas Caddy

    11 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:

    My wife and I returned home from Galveston and our Yucatan coastal cruise last night.  We had a good time, despite some stormy weather on the way back to Galveston.

    One of the strangest things about this cruise was that my only access to the "news" all week was briefly watching MSNBC and Fox News on the cable television in our cabin, before dinner.

    I was truly shocked to see how limited-- and distorted-- the coverage of the "news" is on these two cable channels, because I haven't watched televised "news" for years.

    Both cable programs consisted mainly of lengthy opinion segments/interviews that were entirely focused on a single daily topic.  There was very little information, and a great deal of opinion.

    Fox focused mainly on border hysteria, with video footage and lengthy diatribes about the U.S. being invaded and destroyed by illegal immigrants-- and the importance of impeaching Mayorkas and voting Biden out of office.  I was aghast.  The overarching theme was, "Vote for Trump."

    MSNBC was more reality-based, but was similarly focused on lengthy interviews about a single subject-- e.g., Trump's $83.3 million defamation ruling, and, later in the week, Biden's targeted strikes in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.  The overarching theme was, "Vote for Biden."

     

     

     

    The best morning show on MSNBC is Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough weekdays who covers a number of topics from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. CT. 

    The best afternoon show on MSNBC is hosted by Nicole Wallace from 3 to 5 pm CT weekdays. She has a variety of guests, all of whom are credible and covers a number of topics,

    I always watch these shows.

     

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