3 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said:

I had absolutely nothing to do with it.  Not trying to stir anything up.  Just relying to your post since it is open again.  But I think it's worthy of notification of others.

I understand, and I was just joking.

And I agree, and am glad that whoever had the lever saw the merits in reopening the thread.

49 minutes ago, Matt Allison said:

There seems to be some bizarre beliefs among right-wingers about MSNBC, simply because MSNBC reports facts and news that makes MAGAs and the GOP look bad. 

If that bums out the GOP, then they should maybe chill out on making bad decisions that end up making the news, hmm?

With regard to Ari Melber and Chris Hayes, they would have no problem at all wanting the gov to release the rest of the JFK files. Absolutely none. MSNBC reports on every piece of new JFK news without fail.

However I don't think they would want to be associated in any way with Tucker Carlson or any crusade he is on, because Tucker Carlson is incredibly unpopular with everyone but the 3-4 million people that watch him, and is known for lying to his viewers- not something real journalists like Ari Melber and Chris Hayes want to be connected to.

Remember- journalists reporting bad behavior by the GOP or MAGA doesn't make them "liberal media", it means they are reporting reality, and if reality makes the GOP or MAGA look bad, that's not the fault of the messenger.

 

However I don't think they would want to be associated in any way with Tucker Carlson or any crusade he is on . . .
 I agree Matt, and that's the blowback, or backlash of doing business with Carlson.  Legitimate broadcast media will likely weigh the risks and decide that aligning with Carlson on the Records Act while navigating these treacherous waters is simply untenable.

If I were a producer at MSNBC, I would ask, why the hell wasn't this dealt with in 2017? Did Tucker jump on board the bandwagon when Trump failed to release?

From a strictly PR perspective, the optics are terrible. Those questions are the elephant in the room with this push by JFKA attorneys and should be addressed head on, including with Carlson directly, and followed by a press release laying out his answers. Attempts to sweep this issue under the rug will backfire.

14 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said:

With the support of others.

did you reactivate the thread, Scotty?!  lolol

4 hours ago, Joe Bauer said:

How about we move on from Tucker Carlson altogether?

His credibility factor has been diminished to Trump defending propaganda hack level and he is one of the most divisive figures in American media.

I say to those of the JFKA research community who are looking for a well known media figure to champion as their crusader and to promote their agenda... how about someone less controversial and more trusted in the objective truth news reporting department?

Bill Maher? Chris Hayes? Chris Como? Liz Chaney is available.

https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/see-tucker-carlson-hackery-exposed-over-decades-165357637632

1 hour ago, Lawrence Schnapf said:

Joe Bauer- I agree 100% Joe. Bill Maher would be great. how about some of you contact his producers? Likewise with Chris Hayes. One thing I've learned from my recent media experience is that the producers control the shows. The hosts are simply the faces of the shows.  

Ari Melber seems the obvious candidate. https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/see-tucker-carlson-hackery-exposed-over-decades-165357637632

1 hour ago, Benjamin Cole said:

PS-

Egads, by that standard, most of M$M would have to pay huge legal bills for the last six years. 

Obviously, the networks and cable shows have aligned themselves with political parties. Truth is not on the agenda. This reminds me of old-fashioned machine politics and city "newspapers" of day gone by. 

There was no M$M intention of getting to the truth of Wuhan lab leak---only to see that C19 fit a narrative, and that alternative narratives were censored. A rather important topic, with serious consequences. No matter. 

The same applies to many, many events, which I will not mention, as those events will trigger evidently uncontrollable emotions. 

But maybe this can be discussed: We have seen the Ohio rail catastrophe, and then the SVB bank collapse. 

You know Trump was personally responsible for those events (blue kool-aid), but no! It was Biden (red kool-aid).

Can Norfolk Southern and SVB fire up the lawsuits? Surely, news organizations must know they are regurgitating kool-aid inspired narratives, not the "truth." 

Let us hope Dominion does not prevail, in what looks similar to a SLAPP suit. 

I wonder if this NYT magazine cover-story article is what Dominion is so touchy on the topic? 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/magazine/election-security-crisis-midterms.html

Voting machines are very vulnerable to hacking, is the thrust of the story.

Now, no longer a story. 

Stay open minded, stay independent.  

Much of Fox reporting is dreadful, btw. But then, CNN and MSNBC? The NYT? WaPo? 

 

 

https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/see-tucker-carlson-hackery-exposed-over-decades-165357637632
I challenge you to watch this, Ben.

 

2 hours ago, Benjamin Cole said:

IMHO, we should listen to Larry S., and heed his words regarding the JFKA and the Dominion case. 

Base base makes for bad law: If the Dominion case succeeds, expect less press freedom in the US. As it is, one could also review the Dominion suit as a SLAPP suit. Are they just trying to shut Fox up? 

If Tucker Carlson is pushing for full release of the JFKA records, then he is an ally. 

As it is, the EF might have a readership in the dozens, if that. If we drive away half the potential readership through endless blue-red pissing wars...well, then you are left with a half-dozen aging very opinionated Donks sharing anti-Trump tropes (repeatedly). 

A zero influence echo chamber, gaseous, and no windows. 

The JFKA should be a big tent community. When new members post, they should be treated civilly. 

As it is, the EF might have a readership in the dozens. . .

Ben, you've repeated that a couple of times just since I joined the forum last week, so I assume you've said it in the past as well.  I admonished you recently that you have no idea who is following the JFK EF deliberations. Within a day or so , the complete now infamous EF thread had been disseminated on two websites with respectable readership numbers. The ripple effect would be difficult to calculate, but I do think you underestimate the moccasin telegraph.

4 hours ago, Joe Bauer said:

How about we move on from Tucker Carlson altogether?

His credibility factor has been diminished to Trump defending propaganda hack level and he is one of the most divisive figures in American media.

I say to those of the JFKA research community who are looking for a well known media figure to champion as their crusader and to promote their agenda... how about someone less controversial and more trusted in the objective truth news reporting department?

Bill Maher? Chris Hayes? Chris Como? Liz Chaney is available.

I nominate Ari Melber who seems well-read on Tucker's professional trajectory all the way to Murcoch's media conglomerate. The contradictions along the way are spelled out in this segment.  

Let them go mano-a-mano re. the JFK Records Act publicly. 

Who is Melber's producer, and who might have a 2-3 degree access? https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/see-tucker-carlson-hackery-exposed-over-decades-

Seems like a natural fit.

2 hours ago, Benjamin Cole said:

Yes. I respect your views. I may have different views in some areas.  

I encourage your civil participation in this forum, and that of others who have alternative views. 

 

I'm sorry Ben, and maybe others are satisfied with responses of this nature from you, but when faced with facts, you persistently deflect with "well that's your view". And then you implore everyone to be civil and "express their views".  

As I understand it, Simkin - a serious historian -  launched this forum decades ago for the purpose of presenting facts and allowing for debate.  You seem to  think the purpose of the forum is to express "views".  

FACT, as presented in the Time magazine piece, Trump sued the government for defamotion for a huge sum of money having been charged with willful violation of the Fair Housing Act.  If you won't acknowledge those FACTS, then it would seem you're not engaging in good faith.  

17 minutes ago, Joe Bauer said:

IMO...there are NO hidden JFKA files that would ever seriously diminish the power of or threaten the very existence of the CIA.

They have been destroyed.

Why so many here keep thinking otherwise irritates my sense of trusting belief in others who should know this.

Both Hank and I long argued same, Joe, but we were in agreement that  until it's over, it's not fully over as a friend of Salandria (who by the way believed Oswald was a lone gunman) once opined.  So, I'm supportive of seeing this particular effort through to the end.  In full transparency, I am supportive with the caveat that although Joannides files should be the poster child, there may well be hugely significant files that reveal long buried evidence which should be highlighted as well.   It's my intention to bring those possibilities to the fore and add them to the list.  If they haven't been destroyed and are released, will they upset the applecart entirely? Will they epose an international role in the assassination in Dallas that could damage relations with American allies in Europe, North Africa, (Ireland?!) for decades to come?

1 hour ago, Lawrence Schnapf said:

@Leslie Sharp- To be fair, EVERYONE dropped the ball after Trump postponed release of the records not once but twice. No one in the research community took any action to resist Trump's postponements.  There may have been some whiny articles complaining about the postponements but no effort to fight the postponements.

As a result, the Trump postponements were basically a one or two day news cycle event. You cant blame Tucker for not devoting time on his show for the Trump postponements when the research community did not make this a newsworthy item.   

In contrast,  I organized my legal group in early 2021 in anticipation of Biden's October 2021 memo. we began an orchestrated campaign starting with an oversight request to congress, outreach to the PIDB and a group letter to Biden. After his October 2021 memo, I filed my FOIA lawsuit to understand what went on behind the scenes for the Trump and Biden postponements. 

Then in 2022, we continued our orchestrated campaign including filing our MFF lawsuit and a press conference at the National Press Club. Our MFF group engaged in sustained media outreach so that Biden's December memo a controversial news event item.  Only Tucker and, to lesser extent, Kennedy on the Fox Business Network  picked up on the Biden action ( I appeared on her show after we filed our lawsuit). No other evening programs devoted any real time to the postponement much less leading with this topic despite a protracted effort.

You have no idea how many conversations we had with producers and researchers of shows nor the hours spent feeding the teams with materials If you had put in the amount of time and effort we put into trying to engage all major media outlets, you might feel the  gratitude I feel towards Tucker for taking up the issue.   

I hope you can now organize yourselves and get the attention of the progressive media and Democratic Senators. Take all the energy you are devoting trashing him on this thread and re-direct it towards the shows you watch to convince them to carry a segment on this issue.  

    

First, Larry, thank you for this history.

However, and I will likely be accused of over sensitivity — but this bears addressing if we are an inclusive team, all doing our part - using the tools in our individual toolboxes.

You write, "I hope you can now organize yourselves and get the attention of the progressive media and Democratic Senators. Take all the energy you are devoting trashing him on this thread and re-direct it towards the shows you watch to convince them to carry a segment on this issue." 

I trust you don’t mean to condescend.  Some of us can multi-task as efficiently as you seem able.  You’re doing yeoman’s work on this forum, for instance, and admirably while you pursue the case I presume. 

I understand your enthusiasm for grassroots efforts similar to the efforts of elements of the GOP that is so valiantly pushing Carlson’s agenda ... by influencing advertisers?  True capitalism!  What about the ballot box?

He has cleverly seized Jan 6 to distract from Jan 6, knowing that Trump’s base will believe any disinformation, propaganda he spews. From there, I think at least on a couple of occasions he has actually likened Trump to John F. Kennedy.  It’s a nice little political package he’s working at the moment and the issue is relevant to his willing participation and support of your efforts.

 No doubt grassroots action has been attempted prior to your involvement, and we know that high profile lawsuits have been filed for decades, so we’re all standing on the shoulders of giants.  

You/we just happen to be living through a period when assassination records release coincides with a propaganda machine intent on burying the chances that any Democratic candidate might secure the WH in 2024 … and more critically that Trump or one who aligns with his ideology for the most part will win the presidency.  It really is that simple, with the undertow that Carlson is leading the charge. That is a concern for everyone who has studied this history.  I’m taking you at your word that you’re not a Carlson / Trump adherent. 

@Leslie Sharp- To be fair, EVERYONE dropped the ball after Trump postponed release of the records not once but twice. No one in the research community took any action to resist Trump's postponements.  There may have been some whiny articles complaining about the postponements but no effort to fight the postponements.

I know many among one branch of “the community” have devoted a great deal of personal time and energy confronting the lies coming out of alt-right sites as well as Tucker, Hannity, Ingraham at F. and related broadcast media since 2017.  For many of us, the assassination of Kennedy in Dallas is the polestar of our effort. Albarelli’s Coup in Dallas is among the first books to identify the continuity from Dallas 1963 to DC 2016, with Trump as the archetype of decades of far-right, undisciplined extremism stemming from pre-WWI, yet that research has been ignored or denigrated by some on this forum. It deserves a fair reading, while we’re on the topic.

Was Trump the ideal (and I say dangerous) toxic narcissistic personality — in the mind of Roy Cohn's protege, Roger Stone’s — to be president when the JFK Records Act kicked in? Is that a stretch?

As a result, the Trump postponements were basically a one or two day news cycle event. You cant blame Tucker for not devoting time on his show for the Trump postponements when the research community did not make this a newsworthy item. 

I won’t get into a protracted debate over the obnoxious optics of Tucker’s sudden interest. It is, and he is, what it is, so I for one contend that a bird in the hand . . . is what it is.  That said, what’s unfolding in this particular discussion is disconcerting because it (subjectively speaking) reflects a failure to recognize the undertow of Carlson’s reportage on the JFK Records Act and the potential blowback.   You cannot ignore his partisanship and how this may be the obstacle that the left broadcast media is unwilling to get beyond. I hope to all that is good this is not a massive set up that eludes you and the team.

With that, aren’t you familiar with at least one instance of one degree of separation from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein who are frequent guests on moderate to left leaning broadcast media?  I hope that stone has at least been turned. I’m not in a position to pursue it personally, but I know the opportunity eists. 

In contrast,  I organized my legal group in early 2021 in anticipation of Biden's October 2021 memo. we began an orchestrated campaign starting with an oversight request to congress, outreach to the PIDB and a group letter to Biden. After his October 2021 memo, I filed my FOIA lawsuit to understand what went on behind the scenes for the Trump and Biden postponements. 

I trust you won’t misconstrue what’s being deliberated here as criticism of the herculean efforts you, Bill, Jeff and the team have made thus far.  You may all win the Medal of Honor in the end. Let’s hope that is the case, and I would be on board a write-in campaign for said honors.

Then in 2022, we continued our orchestrated campaign including filing our MFF lawsuit and a press conference at the National Press Club. Our MFF group engaged in sustained media outreach so that Biden's December memo a controversial news event item.  Only Tucker and, to lesser extent, Kennedy on the Fox Business Network  picked up on the Biden action ( I appeared on her show after we filed our lawsuit). No other evening programs devoted any real time to the postponement much less leading with this topic despite a protracted effort.

Fox Business Network picked up on the Biden action . . .

Therein lies the rub, Larry.  The fact that Tucker is exploiting the Kennedy assassination in this matter can’t be lost on you.

You have no idea how many conversations we had with producers and researchers of shows nor the hours spent feeding the teams with materials If you had put in the amount of time and effort we put into trying to engage all major media outlets, you might feel the  gratitude I feel towards Tucker for taking up the issue.  

Again, I laud your efforts, but no, I do not feel gratitude towards Tucker because I am convinced that he and his have been working a complex operation to bring down democratic government to replace it with Christian authoritarian rule. Full stop. Call that paranoia if you must but our research led to the conclusion that Kennedy’s murder – an attack on the democratically elected presidency — was the nail in the coffin and Trump as a Doppelganger, a Trojan Horse, has the hammer.

Now, back to work.

2 minutes ago, W. Niederhut said:

Eye watering hilarious!

51 minutes ago, Joe Bauer said:

Read this Tucker Carlson defenders:

Tucker Carlson Says Jan. 6 Is ‘Second Only to the 2020 Election as the Biggest Scam in My Lifetime’

Story by Michael Luciano • 13h ago

 

So much for trying to portray Carlson as some objective, non-Trump biased, news truth reporting commentator.

No kidding, Joe.
And the travesty is the potential blowback that Carlson got on board with the JFK Records Act [LONG after Trump failed to release ALL files when he had the chance] while moderate and progressive media didn't, which taints the case. (Speaking personally, some in my family circle are having a heyday because of the cognitive dissonance.)  

Repeating what we know, now more than ever, moderate and left leaning media should be pressured to reconsider covering the Records Act issue from a strictly bi-partisan perspective. The facts are what they are, so filter out the crazy conspiracies, and report solely on NARA's failure to comply and Biden administration's stance in support of their arguments. 

Is it possible that those working behind the scenes on behalf of solving the Kennedy case don't have access — through friends and professional colleagues — to CNN, MSNBC, Salon, etc.?? I know of at least one instance of two degrees of separation. I'm sure there are others. And what about the publishers of credible books on the assassination?  Don't they have connections within moderate to left-leaning broadcast media (said she to herself)? 
 

12 hours ago, Benjamin Cole said:

Thanks for your post and airing out your views. 

We should encourage dissent and the full spectrum of viewpoints---here and in the society at large. 

Your response to facts is, "well, that's your view"? 

5 hours ago, Benjamin Cole said:

LS---

You will review 3,500 suits? Sounds truly awful. 

You will select some suits for review? Okay, go to it, but how does that illuminate the 3,500 suits?  I am not accusing you of cherry-picking, but possibly sampling error. 

Do we even know, in the most broad-brush terms, if Trump "won" or "lost" what fraction of the 3,500 suits?

What if Trump "won" 90% of the suits...that would suggest a litigious but "correct" developer who stood up for his legal rights.

To me, if Trump "lost" 90% of the suits, then I would conjecture he engaged in corrupt business practices. 

But I encourage you to pursue your viewpoints, and present them here.

I encourage dissent, and the full range of views, I do not denigrate anyone for having different viewpoints than mine. 

 

 

 

 

 

You misunderstood, Ben. I said I would dig for some of the law suits filed by Trump, not analyze 3,500.

This one jumped out as representative of his attitude toward the law and the courts ...

Nearly fifty years ago, Donald Trump learned the legal strategy that would repeatedly get him out of tight legal jams.

It was 1973 and the Justice Department had just filed a civil rights lawsuit against Trump and his father Fred Trump. The complaint alleged that the Trumps and their company, which managed some 14,000 apartments in Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island, had violated the Fair Housing Act by systematically flagging the applications of Black renters and steering them away from available units. . . .

To push back, the Trumps hired the famously combative Roy Cohn—Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the 1950s Red Scare hearings—and sued the Justice Department for $100 million, claiming defamation. (sound familiar?)The Trumps settled the case two years later, agreeing to a consent decree that included giving a weekly list of vacancies to the New York Urban League. Trump later boasted that he ended up “making a minor settlement without admitting guilt.” (sound familiar? Stormy Daniels.)
https://time.com/6215419/trump-legal-trouble-key-strategies/

This is who Carlson helped Trump assume office in 2016.
 

8 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

Thanks George. And I think I will link to those.

That whole thing he later wrote on Substack about Norway's long help and cooperation is so much hogwash. Like the guy from NATO being an informant at age 8.

But I used that and his OBL nutty theory to get to his horrendous Kennedy stuff. And why that book has been lost without a trace.

Hersh was paid to do a job there, and he was determined to collect, no matter what.  That is not journalism.  Its being a hired gun.

And when you are worse than the CIA on the Castro plots, where does that leave you.

and his OBL nutty theory to get to his horrendous Kennedy stuff.

Not wishing to get into a prolonged debate that might draw attention from the salient question of Hersh's latest, but apropos of "his horrendous Kennedy stuff",  Hersh's reporting related to the Ellen Rometsch scandal has held up under scrutiny and is now corroborated by Pierre Lafitte in his 1963 datebook.

I recognize it may take months if not a year for the Lafitte records to be analyzed to a certainty, but Lafitte's Rometsch entries coincide with media reports of Baker, Tyler, Rometsch visiting NOLA with Paul Aguirre and hosted by Marcello front man Nick Popich. Lafitte is arranging acting classes for Ms. Rometsch, securing passports for her, and is privy — via bulletins from James Angleton — that she is being deported following her interview with the FBI.  He is also keeping Madrid-based Otto Skorzeny informed related to "Ella R.". 

Can anyone credibly counter Hersh's assertion (as well as the reporting by Clark Mollenhoff of the Des Moines Register) that JFK had a romantic liaison with Ms. Rometsch? 

2 hours ago, Larry Hancock said:

I'm assisting in compiling a list of documents which suggest that related but unreleased materials once existed which the CIA has not disclosed - but that list is not related to any FOIA's I have done myself.  These documents have already been released, some older and some some either brand new or with new un-redactions.  The ones I had in mind in my post have been  discussed in relatively recent threads on this forum, such as the document which describes a post-assassination inquiry conducted at JMWAVE for anti-Castro or Castro connections to the attack on JFK.  

Sounds like  your list is intended to go to the same place my items are...

Thanks, Larry. If you come across anyone who has FOIAs to add to our list I hope you'll let us know or have them contact either me or Paul Brancato through EF message if possible.

Jeff M. has provided the criteria for our list i.e., does the subject of the FOIA appear in the ARRB final report, and what does the ARRB report have to say about the file.

best.L

 

58 minutes ago, Benjamin Cole said:

LS--

I see there is a "Trump Thread Links" pinned at the very top of JFK-EF. 

This thread is about Tucker Carlson. 

I am not a moderator, but perhaps your Trump commentary more properly belongs in the thread devoted to Trump. 

 

Carlson helped get Trump elected, advanced his rhetoric and policies for four years, endorsed his second run for president, so yes, this thread on Carlson is the appropriate venue to discuss Trump.

Stictly Carlson related, for your benefit, begin min. 4.

https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber

10 minutes ago, Benjamin Cole said:

Seriously, I cannot imagine how or why Trump is involved in so many suits. It sounds perfectly hellish. 

In Los Angeles, major developers often accumulate hundreds of suits. Contractors, points of development law, citizen groups, regulatory snags, employee troubles, CEQA suits, SLAPP suits and so on. 

In Trump's defense, one would have to read through the 3,500 suits and develop categories...you would have to know if he was the defendant or plaintiff in how many suits, and how the suits were settled, or adjudicated and so on...and that is even to get a feel for the nature of the suits. 

I would take 3,500 suits as a warning sign before doing business with Trump. 

But as a blanket statement, that a major developer must be a bad person as he was involved in a lot of suits over decades and decades...a bit of a stretch. Conjecture. 

 

I qualified by acknowledging that if Trump was plaintiff in only half (1,750) it still is an excessive number by standards. Also, the operative word in the article is "president", which elevates the underpinning concern.  I also had in mind his countersuits in the E. Jean Carrol case, the Stormy Daniels case, and a number of suits he has filed and eluded to in recent campaign speeches.  With some digging I'll relieve you of your concern that mine is simply conjecture.

9 minutes ago, Benjamin Cole said:

I was involved in one lawsuit in my life, and that was settled...and that was way more than enough for me. 

The thought of stultifying and unproductive time in court scares me more than the gallows...but some people seem to thrive on this sort of thing....

 

 

Nice sidestep, Ben. But I still appreciate you sharing the personal anecdote. 

1 hour ago, Pete Mellor said:

In reference to above posts:-My follow-up e-mail to Tom O'Neill regarding his passage in his book 'Chaos'

LeMay had served as chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.  In 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, he'd tried to organise a coup against Kennedy among the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he wanted to force the military to flout the president's orders and bomb the Soviet missile bases they'd found in Cuba."

has gone unanswered.  I have checked two out of the three books he named in his Notes for the above passage and found nothing.

It was certainly a serious accusation against LeMay, one I had never come across previously.

Perhaps Mr. O'Neill is busy with other matters or he's having the same difficulty with his Notes that I encountered.

Pete, 

Perhaps of interest, a seldom recognized general who “retired” from military in late 1962, having served as Army Chief of Staff alongside LeMay and Lemnitzer — General Georg H. Decker . . .

On the issue of Vietnam, and perhaps the death knell of his military career, several vignettes suffice to underscore that Kennedy’s Army Chief of Staff was not in lockstep with the administration’s strategic thinking related to military activity in Southeast Asia. According to Andrew J. Birtie, historian at the US Army Center of Military History, Kennedy “wanted to transform the entire US Army, both mentally and structurally, into the type of politically astute, socially conscious, and guerrilla-savvy force that he believed was necessary to combat Maoist-style revolutions—and General Decker did not.” (emphasis added) In fact, Decker was at the opposite end of the spectrum on the preferred way forward in Vietnam and Laos, once even raising the question of nuclear weaponry. “[The US] cannot win a conventional war in Southeast Asia; if we go in, we should go in to win, and that means bombing Hanoi, China, and maybe even using nuclear bombs.”” (emphasis added.)

            According to Harry G. Summers Jr., “President Kennedy's special military adviser and for a time chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, [Maxwell Taylor] would later tell the Senate that the United States was not trying to ‘defeat’ the North Vietnamese, only ‘to cause them to mend their ways.’ He scoffed at the concept of defeating the enemy as being like ‘Appomattox or something of that sort.’ Those who resisted, such as Army chief of staff General George Decker, a World War II combat veteran, were eased out of office.” — Coup in Dallas

1 hour ago, Larry Hancock said:

Paul,  I've been working with Jeff Morley on some articles related to new documents in the recent releases, especially  documents related to Oswald and the CIA and to the CIA post assassination investigation that was suppressed and held back from both the WC and the Church Committee (and everybody else).  I really don't have any particular media reach myself but am always available to people like Jim and Jeff who do...

Hi Larry. I'll seize the opportunity while you're here to ask if you would willing to share a recap of those highly signficant FOIAs you may have filed over the years that were rejected and/or remain pending (without exposing "journalism tradecraft" of course)?

Paul and I are compiling a list to be submitted along with the brief.

We plan to initiate a new dedicated thread on Ed Forum featuring that initial list (Joannides files will head the list), and invite researchers to contribute as they see fit.  We're in the process of refiining the criteria so it may take several days to launch. 

pm me if you're more comfortable? And if this is redundant to your efforts gathering a similar collection, pls disregard.

L.

16 minutes ago, Benjamin Cole said:

I have heard about Trump, yes....

Ben, If the stakes weren't so high,  if there wasn't a possibility that Trump will win his party's nomination, I would let this go and step back entirely from any forum thread that hints of support of him past or present.  For now, that's not the case.  If even half this number were filed by Trump himself, that is excessive would you not agree? How many in his realm, including politicians and government employs are terrified of this track record?  It's called threat and intimidation.
  Exclusive: Trump's 3,500 lawsuits unprecedented for a presidential nominee

1 minute ago, Benjamin Cole said:

Well, I did, but back in the day....memories fade....

Personally, I kinda think you're off the mark. 

Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story using a first-person narrative.
If believe the member in question would argue he was quite objective and those who challenged him were whining lefties. Just my perception so no lectures solicited. It's a subjective observation.

Plus, Hunter was hilarious, in my opinion.

4 hours ago, Evan Marshall said:

So while folks are focused on him, sniper #1, #2. and #3, quietly exit the US.

Hi Evan,

Are you arguing that Soutre was a bystander? I'm not sure I understand your comment.