Benjamin Cole

51 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said:

Glad he did this.

 

Pat Speer in underappreciated in my view.

There are many top-notch researchers in the JFKA community, and Speer is certainly one of them. 

On 8/18/2021 at 12:19 AM, Pamela Brown said:

I wouldn't get too excited about FoxNews. When I was the limo researcher on their 03 JFK/A program, with everything going smoothly, everything stopped for an entire afternoon when I explained to them, through faxes and phone conversation with the producer Peter Russo how the WC reenactment of the assassination was flawed, and even the diagram about it incorrect. They were stumped. After that, they shut me out and did not air the limo segment.  

Then in 2013, after trolling conspiracy, they had Geraldo Rivera claim at the end that it was all done by 'that silly little Communist."...

Don't let your guard down...

Pamela--

Good advice. I am getting my hopes up...but will keep the guard up too. 

Meanwhile, the Deep State is alive and thriving in US media:

16 hours ago, Robert Burrows said:

I started to wonder last night: is this the payback for releasing Murder Most Foul?

The thought occurred. 

But also, a rich celebrity male, or a prominent political figure, are targets for lawsuits and accusations. I am not here to defend rich celebrity males or pols, many of whom I am sure deserve even worse than they get. 

But we must adhere to the innocent until proven guilty in a court of law standard. 

Government impeachments and investigations can be smear jobs and nothing more. Accusations can be total fabrications. 

The Carter Page story is interesting. 

6 hours ago, Robert Burrows said:

This woman waits 56 years to accuse Bob Dylan of abusing her. Ridiculous. How does one defend oneself when the media keeps telling people that you HAVE  To believe all accusers?

 

Witch hunts.  The accusation is a conviction.  The perfect way to torpedo political rivals, and the media is eager to play along. 

Some people are accused of sex abusers, others of being Russian agents. 

An investigation found LHO guilty, and a loner.  

Show me a conviction in an open court law, where an aggressive defense is provided, before a jury of peers.

The rest is just jibber-jabber. 

1 hour ago, Gil Jesus said:

And the way he phrased it, "the shells at the scene indicate.....", meaning he looked at the shells. There's no way he could have made that error because automatic shells are marked "38 auto" and revolver 38 shells are marked "38 cal". He wants us to believe that he only read the "38" and assumed they were auto. Why would you assume the shells were automatics when the more common 38 ammo was revolver ?

And remember...this was the murder of a brother officer.

I assume Dallas is like Los Angeles, and the one crime that is taken more seriously by the LAPD than any other is the murder of a brother officer. Besides that, the bottom of a shell is rather small (about one-quarter inch in diameter). It would be hard to read "38" and not see the word "auto" or "cal." 

I know humans make mistakes, and even experienced professionals make mistakes. Simple mistakes may explain some flubs in the JFK evidence. It happens. 

But when a brother officer is murdered....I would think the officer gave a long, long, serious look at the shells. Even the department dullard would make sure to ID the shells properly. 

6 hours ago, Douglas Caddy said:

Biden, the State Department and the Pentagon will be all blamed for this historic disaster and deservedly so.

The next Gallup Poll will not be kind to Biden.  His whole agenda is now in jeopardy.  

This could have been easily avoided. Rachel Maddow sounded the alarm five weeks ago and brought guests on her show to emphasize the imminent peril. I and my friends talked about it and were worried. The morale of the Democratic Party's rank and file will suffer greatly. 

I am both outraged and sickened by this development. 

 

 

Give Rachel Maddow some jodhpurs and high black boots. She wants her big epalauts. 

21 minutes ago, David G. Healy said:

I was in Saigon on 11/22/63, I finally called for full disclosure in '92! Where's my credit? And, they FAUX don't "report", they comment on other's theorizing, commentary and reporting... so enjoy their "reporting," as far as saluting FAUX: nah!

Have a good one!

I give you credit for calling for full disclosure. 

2 hours ago, Gil Jesus said:

Thanks Ben. I'm going to do a narrative on the shells separately. I'm working on it right now.

Great. As I recall, the experienced police vet who picked up the shells said they had the word "auto" on the base of shell, or vice versa from what he had to say later.  I have not known many cops, but the cops I have known know all about ammo and guns. Part of the job. And in Texas no less. 

Gil-

Can you add on there, was something funny about the shells found on the Tippit scene? Something about them being identified "auto" or not. 

Great stuff. 

7 hours ago, David G. Healy said:

I suspect FAUX has some guilt re: 500,000 (at least) USofA Covid deaths, and how they've shaped their coverage of same. They're looking for any low hanging fruit to get behind. They'll never cover for the sins of Tuck Carlson, etal., but they sure know distraction to the nth degree.

Full disclosure is a pipe dream, just like we found out about subpoena's and executive priledge for Executive Branch Denziens...

FAUX is BS, always will be... Haven't liked Red's and Fascist's since 1962 and here we are surrounded by them...

Hey, Fox called for full disclosure. Give credit where credit is due. Doesn't mean you have to like them, or 99% of their reporting. 

But for the purposes of this Forum, I think it is worth mentioning, and saluting. 

2 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:

Ben,

     What concerns me is whether the American public will get an honest, accurate appraisal of the 20 year Afghanistan War fiasco, including Trump's negotiations with the Taliban last year to end the U.S. occupation.

     I'm not one to blame Trump or Biden for trying to get us out of the quagmire, but many people, including Trump, are already trying to pin the blame on the donkey.  It's disingenuous.

    The other thing I fear is an Afghanistan "Rambo Syndrome"-- i.e., people claiming that we could have "won" the occupation of Afghanistan with more bombs, more cajones, etc.  It's the wrong historical lesson.

    Geez... How many tons of ordnance did we already drop to bomb Afghanistan back to the Stone Age?

Oh, not even just Afghanistan. Have you ever seen photos of Raqqa, Syria? Or Fallujah, Iraq? Evidently, turning a town into rubble is an option. 

Let alone the 270 million cluster bombs left behind in Laos (yes, million). 

There is a new standard since Korea: A war must be fantastically expensive but counterproductive, and the outcome of little consequence to real American prosperity. The trifecta. 

Trump gets some credit, and Biden the lion's share for getting out of a losing situation. If the US really gets out. 

Yes. No doubt US soldiers will be lionized for decades to come for their exploits in the Mideast---the globalist mantra from Hollywood. No, I do not blame individual soldiers. Smart and tough, caught in a bad situation. 

But the leadership....

Speaking of the media, the WaPo has never run a op-ed that spending $6 trillion in Iraqistan is an example of white supremacy and racism and empire-building, as that money could have been spent at home making US cities safe and prosperous. That line of reasoning actually makes some sense. 

But those lulus who over-ran the Capitol....

2 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:

Biden's official statement today on Afghanistan. 

And, below, a copy of Trump's February 29, 2020 treaty with the Taliban.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/14/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-afghanistan/

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/197763/Peace Agreement between the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the United States of America_29.2.2020.pdf

Readers of this website especially should ponder the globalist-national security state, and how Bush jr., the GOP establishment, and Biden and the Donk establishment, fit into it. 

Then think about JFK and why he was eliminated. And why US media still has little interest in the JFKA. 

Trump was a sideshow, and with luck, passing from the scene. 

The establishment media would like the "liberal" public to be obsessed with Trump, and to make sure no non-establishment president ever reaches the Oval Office ever again. 

That is the framework in which "news" reaches you. 

6 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:

        As I said, it's a working hypothesis.  It will be interesting to see if Oliver Stone's film gets some proper, accurate M$M coverage, or is marginalized and denigrated by the M$M-- as has been the case with the truth about JFK's assassination for the past 57 years.

       If coverage is censored, or inaccurately disparaging, I would posit that Mockingbird was never killed.

      Two other thoughts about Matt's comments about lack of public interest in the JFKA, and comparisons with interest in Lincoln's assassination.

1)  Public interest in any subject is partly a function of mainstream media coverage.  No coverage = Less interest.

2)  Lincoln wasn't assassinated by powerful people in the U.S. government.

W.--

1. Yes, project Mockingbird is probably still on. I doubt there is a major government in the world not trying to slant media coverage. The US government may be aggressive in this regard.

2. In addition, major media in the US has been absorbed into the DC globalist establishment. No one asks why US troops are quartered in Germany 75 years after WWII. That would be blasphemy. Nancy Pelosi's website says national security means promoting prosperity "across the globe."  Major media is a party organ for the Donks, except Fox which is the (mostly) mouthpiece for the 'Phants. But the Donks are now the party of Wall Street, tech giants, multinationals. People think the Donks are progressive as they mouth some ID politics jibber-jabber. 

3. You are right. The media can make George Floyd a national issue, or make the JFKA an issue. Or, for 20 years, not make an issue of getting out of Afghanie. Just depends on what the establishment wants. 

On 8/13/2021 at 1:23 AM, Michaleen Kilroy said:

Great work on getting Blakey involved, Ben and Lawrence.

I honestly believe the reason this case hasn’t been solved is because of not doing the necessary PR best practices on the conspiracy research side. CIA played it better than us. And tbh, we’re starting late on this considering the decision is in October. Guarantee you CIA and FBI have already been lobbying Biden admin for continued obstruction.

FYI, I reached out to Blakey a couple of years ago regarding this Medium post I wrote below and he wrote back:

“I read your piece with great interest. Sadly, I don’t think anything will come of it in our lifetime.“

I included his reaction in the piece.
https://medium.com/@macgiollarua/a-jfk-assassination-question-that-still-requires-an-answer-377267b73309

 

That is some first-rate writing and reporting you did for Medium. Easy to read, yet in-depth---not something that just happens (well, for most of us). 

13 hours ago, Michaleen Kilroy said:

Great work on getting Blakey involved, Ben and Lawrence.

I honestly believe the reason this case hasn’t been solved is because of not doing the necessary PR best practices on the conspiracy research side. CIA played it better than us. And tbh, we’re starting late on this considering the decision is in October. Guarantee you CIA and FBI have already been lobbying Biden admin for continued obstruction.

FYI, I reached out to Blakey a couple of years ago regarding this Medium post I wrote below and he wrote back:

“I read your piece with great interest. Sadly, I don’t think anything will come of it in our lifetime.“

I included his reaction in the piece.
https://medium.com/@macgiollarua/a-jfk-assassination-question-that-still-requires-an-answer-377267b73309

 

Michaleen K--

Congrats on trying, peacefully, which is all any of us can do. 

I have pitched my "small bullet hole in Connally's shirt" story w/o success. 

But I think we have a shot at a Blakely op-ed in the NYT or WaPo. 

Yes, the JFKA community was always at a great disadvantage to the national security state, for many reasons. 

Being a herd of cats (with plenty of intel felines in the mix), the JFKA community never mounted a unified platform. Some might uncharitably say a shrill contentiousness is a characteristic of the community.

16 hours ago, Dan Rice said:

Don't forget to mention George Joannides to Blakey.  That might inspire him.

Don R. You malicious soul, you.

2 hours ago, David G. Healy said:

CIA budget cut? Does anyone know their total yearly budget, for any year?

No, not really. There is annual "black budget" unknown to the voting public, even 10 years after the fact. 

1 hour ago, W. Niederhut said:

Matt,

     I don't know about you, but I know some reasonably intelligent, educated people who still think that JFKA and 9/11 Truthers are kooky conspiracy theorists.

     Needless to say, they are people who haven't studied the legitimate research, and/or have been duped by reading things like John McAdams' web pages, Bugliosi, or Case Closed by Gerald Posner.

     Frankly, I would be thrilled to see some honest, serious reviews of JFK Revisited in our mainstream media.  We'll see.

W.--

I have to agree with your general take on this one. 

Sure, the JFKA is not the biggest issue of the day. 

But who can be against the full release of the JFK Records? 

And for still-yet tens of millions of Americans, the JFKA was a signal event in public life. 

The think tank-national security-media-globalist blob is stronger than ever, thoroughly invested in what used to be independent or "liberal" media, such as the NYT, WaPo, CBS, as well as both political parties. The legacy cable outfits, CNN and MSNBC are hardly any better, and maybe worse. 

You can get fired at the NYT for airing an op-ed from a US Senator, but they are running op-eds the US should stick it out in Afghanistan. I think the message is, "If Afghanistan is worth military intervention, then anything, anywhere is worth military intervention. That is the standard." 

A real review of the JFKA would bring up exceedingly uncomfortable present-day but never-addressed issues such as "Why a hyper-mobilized and global permanent US military archipelago? Was that what JFK was trying to avoid?" 

The US military as seven-continents, seven-oceans guard service for global-multinationals. Why? That is a topic Apple, Disney, WalMart, BlackRock, and punked media---and the CIA---do not want addressed. 

9 minutes ago, Chris Barnard said:

Great shout. 
Realistically, if we want any chance of these records being released, we should be hitting as many sources of exposure as possible. Kennedy family members would be of great use too. 

Right. 

5 hours ago, Lawrence Schnapf said:

no need to do this. he has agreed to sign the letter that a group of lawyers I have organized is submitting to the President.

Well...

Why no need? An op-ed published in the WaPo or NYT might have some clout, will be seen by readers...

Anyway, believe it or not, Blakely agreed to do it, but wants someone to write a first draft. 

I have my eye on you....

1 hour ago, W. Niederhut said:

Ben,

     In my opinion, Trump was by far the lesser evil in matters of U.S. foreign/military policy.  He deserves credit for cutting the funding for Operation Timber Sycamore in 2017-- our covert Sunni proxy war to overthrow the Syrian government.  That was one positive aspect of Trump's relationship with Putin, since the Russian Federation, essentially, saved Syria from our bloody, misguided U.S./NATO/Saudi/Israeli proxy war against Damascus.

     My own take is that Dubya Bush was merely the charming, congenial public relations guy for the Cheney-Rumsfeld-military-industrial complex.

     The project for the so-called "War on Terror" was conceptualized by the "Vulcans"/PNAC think tank (which included Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Condoleeza Rice, et.al.) in the 1990s, before Dubya Bush was even elected.   Dubya wasn't even in that loop, as far as I know.  Bob Woodward recounts a phone call before Dubya's inauguration in January of 2001 where he asked his father, "Dad, who are the Neocons?"  To which GHWB replied, "In a word, son, Israel."

I more or less agree. I had to hold my nose at Trump, but need a gas mask to ponder Bush jr. 

And LBJ-Nixon may have been worse. 

Side note to anybody: 

The Biden Administration plans to spend $1.2 trillion on infrastructure in the next eight years. Probably a good idea, could be even more. 

The Biden Administration will spend at least 10 times that much on the DoD, VA, DHS, black budget and prorated interest on the national debt in the next eight years. 

Yet the M$M frames the infrastructure as a colossal spending program, so huge, maybe too much!

Looking at the dollars...when did the Trump Administration end, and when did the Biden Administration start?

1 hour ago, W. Niederhut said:

Based on this review, it looks like Ackerman barely scratches the surface in his "history" of 9/11 and the ensuing "War on Terror."

Needless to say, if he had done so, his book wouldn't have been reviewed in the New York Times.  🤥

Here is a question:

Some have alleged the Bush-Cheney Administration was a participant in the 9/11 attack, which downed the two WTC towers and the #7 building, and killed 1,800+ Americans.

This created a propaganda platform to radically expand US military presence in the Mideast, and a try at inserting multinationals into Iraqi oil markets, among other globalist-imperialist actions. The wave of nationalism that followed 9/11 was engineered also, while in the Mideast millions have died and more millions displaced since 9/11.  

If Trump is the "fascist," then what words are at our disposal to describe President Bush jr.? 

Is there a "lesser of two evils" in this picture? 

Great to be reminded of the environment the early researchers endured. 

1 hour ago, Ron Bulman said:

Yes. Quite an accomplishment.  Congratulations to him and Oliver Stone.  Thanks to Jim for Destiny Betrayed in particular, we wouldn't be here without it.  Just curious, I guess you've read it?  

Yes, of course. Read his website, kennedysandking.com regularly.

When I could get hands on the material, read John Newman, Larry Hancock, Doug Horne, Jeff Morley, Tink Thompson. A lot of Pat Speer's work. Mark Lane. Gary Aguilar is a gem. Cyril Wecht another jewel. Who am I leaving out? Many researchers who contributed valuable one-off monographs and such. 

Think about the collective intelligence of the above group of people. 

I read Bugliosi's tome. The paperback version of the WC. Much of HSCA stuff. 

G. Robert Blakey

Notre Dame Law School