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7 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:
Indeed. It's amazing to see how effectively Trump's lawyers have succeeded in suppressing any evidence of his alleged crimes through endless court appeals, gag orders, etc.
Remember when Trump announced before the 2016 election that he would release his tax returns after the audit was completed?
That was five years ago.
Most recently, someone leaked Jennifer Weisselberg's New York grand jury testimony about Donald Trump allegedly telling her, in person, about his scheme to commit tax fraud.
The only subsequent news was that the judge imposed a gag order on Ms. Weisselberg. 🤥
Trump lacks any moral fiber.
Still, the national security state is happy to install and work with people lacking any moral fiber--or uninstall them if desired.
Did JFK lack moral fiber, and that is the national security state installed LBJ?
The bigger point---why did the national security go after Trump from even before he set foot in office?
From Nancy Pelosi's webpage:
The United States works to combat global terror by working with our allies to protect human rights and prevent radicalization.
To move our nation forward in uncertain times, Congress will work to preserve our alliances abroad and ensure our national security at home by promoting peace, progress, and prosperity across the globe.
That works out nicely for the globalist-multinationals, no?
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6 hours ago, Mark Knight said:
We must remember that, prior to the creation of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection attempt, Congress attempted to create an INDEPENDENT COMMISSION to investigate.
And Republican Senators killed that attempt.
Which begs the question: did they not want the incident investigated...or did they WANT a partisan investigation that they could denounce?
Either way, it appears obvious that the LAST thing they wanted was the TRUTH to come out.
I am shocked---shocked!---that one or both of our two major political parties wants to obscure the truth.
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Mark Tyler--
I just reviewed your webpage, and I can see a thorough read will take more than one sitting, or a just a few days. Tremendous presentation.
Anyway, though, I am puzzled why you contend Governor Connally being shot before he does a 180-degree turn in his seat.
That is not how the Governor and his wife recall the timeline. JBC says he was just turning forward (from having turned around in his seat) when he was struck. My take is that this is borne out by the Z film.
My take is JBC was shot from the rear about Z-296.
Dr. Robert Shaw has puzzled how JBC could have been shot through the dorsal (non-palm) side of his wrist, if the bullet came through his chest first. Try touching the dorsal side of your wrist flat against your chest. That is an interesting question too.
Also, what about the possibility of silencers, pneumatic weapons, or simultaneous shots?
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1 hour ago, Chris Barnard said:
Surprised Philip Zelicow didn’t get another nod.
Would a public jury type situation not be better? Picked at random, a person without a criminal record from each state? Does that seem fairer? One lawyer from the prosecution and defence presenting? Or am I hoping for utopia?
Probably no select committee or commission is the best idea, and let the Justice Department try to prove a case in an open court of law, before a jury of peers, wherein defendants have counsel.
You still have a problem that if defense counsel wanted to call people from the intel community, they might simply not appear or would fearlessly dissemble.
Right now, the case is clear against individuals in the scrum---they broke the law. Many appear to be mentally challenged.
One question is whether there were instigators in the crowd, and who the instigators worked for.
Presently Jan, 6 select committee appears intent on blaming Trump for inciting the scrum, through a speech he gave that day. They may have a problem in that Trump said in this speech,
I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
But the select committee does not have prove its case before a jury, they only have to state that their investigation has found Trump instigated the riot/occupation of the Capitol.
We do not know if the select committee has more information, of actual Trump actors working with, or instigating members of the scrum to occupy the Capitol.
We also do not know if non-Trump government infiltrators, plants, informants or assets played in a role in provoking the events of Jan 6.
Evidently, reporters are saying the kidnap plot of Governor Whitmer would have never happened, that it was in fact enabled, by the involvement of federal agents and informants. So we know the FBI is actively infiltrating groups, often providing financing and even planning.
Egads, that reminds of case now decades old, and how wide the berth is for "entrapment."
On October 19, 1982, (John) DeLorean was charged by the US government with trafficking cocaine following a videotaped sting operation in which he was recorded by undercover federal agents agreeing to bankroll a cocaine smuggling operation.[5]
You may remember the odd stainless-steel cars DeLorean made. Anyway, there he was on film planning to be a bigtime dope dealer, and I assumed he would doing hard time. He got off, on "entrapment."
If it turns out some of the half-wit participants in the Jan. 6 scrum were encouraged or financed by intel agents...
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1 hour ago, Chris Barnard said:
We'll just be watching those two commission scenes in The Parallax View.
Let me ask you this: If Liz Cheney had been on the old HUAC, or the WC, or the 9/1/ commission, or the HSCA....how do you think she would have tilted the investigation?
Now Liz Cheney sits on the 1/6 select committee...
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14 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:
But something curious about the article is that the number of withheld or redacted documents has gone up from 17,000 to 31,000.
It would be nice if there was just one straight line anywhere in the entire JFKA story.
17,000? 31,000?
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2 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said:
The MSM journalists or more especially editors understand the wishes of there employers. With what is it 95-98%of the msm owned by the 1-2-5 % the message from the top is pretty clear. Nothing to see here, move on.
I agree with you.
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10 hours ago, Chuck Schwartz said:
I vote for this option..or it may have been the spearpoint of a deluded and sick group seeking to overthrow the election---an attempted insurrection. Trump was the leader. In my opinion, this is the truth. I am still waiting for a decent governmental investigation into who killed JFK. In my opinion, JFK was killed by right wing fascists who believed in the Domino theory {if Vietmam goes communist, all of Asia will go communist). Anti - Castro Cubans may have been involved and certain mafia figures may have played a role.
It may be that the House select committee investigation reports as you believe...that there was an insurrection planned by Trump.
Unfortunately for all of us, the select committee is a highly political body. Their report may be no better or worse than the old HUAC reports, the Warren Commission, the HSCA or the 9/11 commission.
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3 hours ago, Chris Barnard said:
You're right, simple logic, there are more people alive that are accountable in 9/11, than JFKA. Even so the JFKA if ever exposed or acknowledged signifies the start of corruption, the public must then seek the truth in every major even since, which takes us to 9/11 and beyond. We won't be enlightened on either front. Also, how many years have they had to erase any incriminating docs? Its a lot ... For us to believe the organisations responsible will fire out the truth in 2021, we'd need to be totally delusional.
It is galling.
I understand there are people who think the official story on LHO is true. Fine, we all have different takes on history.
But who can be against disclosure of JFK and 9/11 docs?
And the mainstream media should be hopping mad about this...how can someone be a journalist, when there is selective disclosure of documents?
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If the 9/11 folks can't get the docs released...the less influential JFKA community must have even less chance.
But hey, the WaPo is woke....
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2 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:
Well, even if it's themselves someone needs to investigate the insurrection and attempted fascist coup.
Not to belabor a point, but innocent until proven guilty.
How about "someone needs to investigate if there were plans for an insurrection and attempted fascist coup."
We should not assume guilt, and then launch an investigation confirm what we believe.
A scrum in the Capitol may just a scrum involving loonies...
...or it may have been triggered by some agent provocateurs to make a propaganda event, by some who took advantage of the scrum...
or it may have been the spearpoint of a deluded and sick group seeking to overthrow the election---an attempted insurrection. Maybe Trump was in on it.
If an unknown group or Trump planned an insurrection, they sent exactly one man with firearms into the Capitol. (I assume the DEA agent was not part of an insurrection).
This strikes me underpowered.
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1 minute ago, Ron Bulman said:
Exactly why the House Committee should look closely at this historical attempt to replace (perceived) Democracy with fascism.
I would prefer an independent, non-government committee, but given special powers of subpoena, investigate the Jan. 6 scrum.
"OK, so the US Capitol Police, who report ultimately to Senators Tim Ryan, Amy Klobuchar and Jack Reed, and Congressperson Zoe Lofgren, decide to do what on Jan. 6? This is a legislative police force, and reports only to Congress. It is not an executive branch agency.
The US Capitol Police have 2,300 officers. In the vernacular of the street, "Man, where were they?"
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Do you think a Congressional committee is going to conclude that Congress itself, and Amy Klobuchar et al, are to blame for not putting 2,300 officers on the lines Jan. 6?
Many (most?) of the Capitol police who were on duty Jan. 6 did not even have billy-clubs or shields.
Remember, Capitol Police report to Congressional leadership. When was the last time elected officials blamed themselves for failure?
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10 hours ago, Joe Bauer said:
It's obvious most of the Capital police really were committed to stopping the rioters and truly did risk their lives in this effort.
However, I could also believe that at least some if even a few of the police on duty that day ( "a date that will live in infamy" ) were sympathetic to the Trump inspired mob and their cause.
And in the least, "pretending" to be fully confronting the lynch mob but not seriously so?
Its a fact that many in the Trump mob were retired and even active duty police and fire and military people.
Who tend to be much more right wing in their political views than most other profession people. I am sure at least some of those Capital police personnel ( of the same profession ) had the same political leanings.
And to think that some of these police people who may have been sympathetic to the Trump madness hoard, might be awarded one of those highest honor "Medals Of Bravery" by Biden?
Cringe.
Joe B.---
If the House select committee wants to "get to the bottom" of how the scrum ended up inside the Capitol...why are they leading with highly emotional presentations by US Capitol Police officers?
This strikes me as theater, not investigation.
No intelligence reports? No word from informants inside various terrorist groups? No confessions by agitators that they planned, say, simultaneous assaults on multiple entrance to the Capitol---although that still begs the question, why such lightly defended entrances?
The FBI says they arrested Enrique Tarrio, the Afro-Cubano chairman of the Proud Boys (and FBI informant) on Jan. 4 to prevent him "from storming the Capitol." Curiously, the FBI released Tarrio on Jan. 5. Who knows why. But obviously, the FBI thought a scrum at the Capitol on Jan, 6 was a live possibility.
OK, so the US Capitol Police, who report ultimately to Senators Tim Ryan, Amy Klobuchar and Jack Reed, and Congressperson Zoe Lofgren, decide to do what on Jan. 6? This is a legislative police force, and reports only to Congress. It is not an executive branch agency.
The US Capitol Police have 2,300 officers. In the vernacular of the street, "Man, where were they?"
Of all 600+ rioters arrested who breached the Capitol, only one (and possibly one more, to be explained later) had a firearm. The lone individual was "Christopher Alberts," and he was released immediately on no bail. He was also wearing body armor and carrying a gas mask. Huh?
There was another sicko arrested that day who had firearms and molotov cocktails, named Lonnie Leroy Coffman, but he was arrested in the District of Columbia, not inside the Capitol. He had not breached the Capitol.
I had the impression that many people entering the Capitol were armed with actual firearms, but that turns out not to be true. Just one (and maybe one more).
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases?combine=coffman
You can run a search term for "pistol," "rifle," "revolver," "gun" etc and see what you come up with. Remember, check to see if the suspects had actually breached the Capitol, or where arrested elsewhere.
However! And this gets mysterious my friends.
There was a DEA agent inside the Capitol, who (it is charged) flashed his badge and was carrying a firearm, and he was arrested! Mark Sami Ibrahim, is his name.
Well, when you look at history closely...it tends not to follow the approved narratives....
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53 minutes ago, Gil Jesus said:
They can't be protecting the sources, because they're all dead. They must be protecting the METHODS and that to me is disturbing.
Well, maybe METHODS, but also perhaps greater clarity on who was LHO. If LHO was a CIA or military asset, even if sometimes unwitting and manipulated, that would disaster.
A CIA asset murdered the President?
If there is even one memo indicating LHO was being directed somehow...or one memo firmly indicating files have been cleansed regarding LHO...one memo indicating Antonio Veciana did in fact meet LHO and David Atlee Phillips...one memo indicating a false flag operation was planned on Nov. 22 in Dallas
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10 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:
Ben,
Biden will never release any classified documents about 9/11. No way. Even Trump balked at doing that.
There was a time when many people thought that Trump might be a 9/11 Truther. During his Republican primary debates with Jeb Bush, Trump said, "When I'm President the American people are going to find out who really destroyed the World Trade Center on 9/11."
Never happened. In fact, Trump's first presidential trip abroad was to Riyadh, where he did the Sword Dance with the Saudi Royal Family.
I completely and without slightest hesitation condemn Trump for keeping JFK and 9/11 records away from US citizens. He lacked the moral character to honor his promises, a signal failing.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1276138
9/11 families to President Biden: Don't come to our memorial events
Evidently, President Biden the campaigner said he favored releasing 9/11 docs still kept under seal.
"Eagleson said his (9/11 survivors) group was optimistic after a letter from candidate Biden in October pledging transparency about the matter.
'I intend to be a President for all Americans, and will hear all of their voices,” Biden wrote. “The 9/11 Families are right to seek full truth and accountability. ... I will direct my Attorney General to personally examine the merits of all cases where the invocation of privilege is recommended, and to err on the side of disclosure in cases where, as here, the events in question occurred two decades or longer ago.'"
But now....not so much. So the group has disinvited Biden to its annual memorial event.
Of course, under the JFK Records Act, President Biden must decide on Oct. 26 what to release, in terms of JFK Records.
Well, given the 9/11 outlook...looks grim.
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1 hour ago, Chris Barnard said:
Ordinarily most would be financially attached to the system, or be over a barrel for something they had done in the past, Truman obviously wasn’t gaming the system to enrich himself and had nothing to lose by speaking out. He probably deeply regretted the way he had been duped and the end result.
David McCullough wrote a book on Truman that is an easy read, and perhaps a bit of a hagiography. Truman was no dummy. The dropping of A-bombs remains horrific--on the other hand, the Americans would lose 10,000 men storming a single small island in the Pacific. Life had become cheap, and after losses like that....the US was firebombing cities in japan and Germany.
McCullough was not the type of writer to delve into the post-war national security state, and the growing power of multinationals. A power that has grown to this day.
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1 hour ago, Chris Barnard said:
I thought Truman was an absolute ignoramus, he opened pandora’s box but, he almost redeems himself here. He died broke too didn’t he?! That says something. Dulles then then went to visit him to suppress the damage and seek a retraction didn’t he?!
Verily, Dulles actually visited him in person to make his point. But Truman was old and retired, and didn't care what Dulles said.
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Just for fun, here are two House Select Committees, that appeared in alphabetical order in a list of Select Committees (which is interesting reading, btw)
Select Committee on the House Restaurant (1969-1975)
Select Committee on Hunger (1984-1993)
Well, I guess it took six years to find out what was really, really happening in the House restaurant. I am pleased to note that the topic of hunger in general was afforded a longer study period.
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1 hour ago, Denny Zartman said:
I hope so. The wheels of justice, and all that.
Not sure.
Would you say the House Select Committee on Assassinations got to the bottom of the JFKA?
Was the role of the CIA or national security state obscured, or illuminated?
What makes the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack better, or worse, than the HSCA?
Less political? More political?
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Man, oh man.
I am beginning to suspect there might actually "be something" in the remaining files. I have generally assumed not much "hard stuff" would be put into written form, even contemporaneously, let alone after cleansing....
But if so, why the tenacity in not releasing the files?
Among Trump's many, many failings...or cave-ins.
I still do not think the "smoking gun" is in the files. But perhaps there are enough dots, that when connected...
There is oceanic apathy regarding this issue in mainstream US media, from CNN to the NYT-Wapo crowd to Fox...although maybe Fox is showing signs of intellectual curiosity...
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2 hours ago, Robert Burrows said:
A coworker at the airport that I work at was accused of inappropriately touching a customer after he felt sympathy for her because she was crying. He bought her a soft drink and followed her into one of the few places in the airport that doesn't have camera coverage. She accused him of groping her and the next thing he knew he was chained to a chair in the sheriffs office. His face was splashed across every news channel that evening and in all of the local newspapers in the morning. He was fired immediately. It turned out that the woman who had accused him was lying and had made false accusations in the past. His innocence was never mentioned by the media.
Innocent until proven guilty?
Right.
Your real-world example is why I stick to the standard, "Innocent until proven guilty in an open court of law, jury-trial by peers, and provided with intelligent aggressive defense counsel."
Remember, a government investigation (the WC) found LHO guilty.
LHO was never represented in open court, by a skillful lawyer aggressively challenging the evidence, and providing broader context.
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Yes, I was unaware of the earlier hostilities between the CIA and the Kennedys. Fascinating.
Also, ex-President Truman, in the near-immediate aftermath of the JFKA, penned an editorial that the CIA operational powers should be eliminated. The timing is interesting.
“There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.” President Harry S. Truman wrote those words in an op-ed for the Washington Post on Dec.22, 1963, entitled “Limit CIA Role to Intelligence.”
Secret Service participation in 1/6 coup attempt
in JFK Assassination Debate
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W.--
There seems to be a vast range of opinions on "Russiagate"---Aaron Mate, Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald, probably the three best DC reporters going---say that Russiagate amounts to nothing.
Are meetings and contacts mere variations of the old "guilt by association" standard?
I am no friend of Paul Manafort. If he was a Russian agent...why was he charged not with espionage or sedition, or some such crime? As I recall, Manafort was charged with tax evasion, lying on on a loan application and for failing to register as a foreign lobbyist (the latter charge leading to a rush of such registrations in DC).
Do we have an "guilty until proven innocent" standard for Manafort, when it comes to whether he was a Russian agent or not?
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The story on the financing of the
is worth a look.
It appears the money to finance the Penn Biden Center came from mainland China.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/05/penn-biden-center-china-undisclosed-donations-complaint-millions
The student newspaper, and Philly papers, before Biden became the D Party nominee, ran op-eds asking why Biden was getting so much money from U Penn for doing nothing.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/joe-biden-penn-salary-lectures-20190712.html
OK, we can connect dots, if we are so inclined.
The CCP gives money to the U Penn to create the Penn Biden Center. And U Penn gives Biden more than $900k.
Money is a fungible commodity. Did the CCP essentially give Biden $900k?
The answer to that question is entirely a matter of perspective, and in the US, partisan politics.
It is a variation of the guilt by association routine. We can say Biden is bought off by the CCP, or we can declare the money has no effect on Biden's policy making.
I consider Biden innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.