Michael Schweitzer Posted December 25, 2011 Author Share Posted December 25, 2011 You had me going there Michael, up until you got to the part about Ruby firing a blank and the CIA killing Oswald in the ambulance. The CIA was only one of a number of government intelligence agencies that included individuals with the motive, power and capacity to kill the president, and just because whatever happened at Dealey Plaza can be shown to have been the result of a cover intelligence operation, that doesn't mean it had to be the CIA who pulled it off. To me, blaming the CIA is a cop-out, an easy way out of really determining the individuals who did it, and Allen Dulles was out of the loop at the time. The CIA were just as much a Patsy as Oswald, and those individuals really responsible for the murder got away with it. BK JFKcountercoup WHY WAS PRESIDENT KENNEDY ASSASSINATED? by Michael B. Schweitzer Attorney at Law (retired) THE TRUTH: The CIA assassinated President Kennedy, in what is nowadays called a "regime change." The directive came from its former director, Allen Dulles, a criminal mastermind fired by Kennedy for launching unauthorized covert military operations to force him into wars. Vice President Lyndon Johnson, a ruthless political manipulator with a mania to be president and a manic-depressive serial killer with a personal assassin (Malcolm Wallace), supported the plan, secured the financing from his Texas oil backers (H.L. Hunt, John Mecom and especially Clint Murchison, pronounced "Murkison," whom Kennedy enraged by proposing to eliminate a massive tax break for oilmen), and waited in the wings to control the cover-up. Johnson had positioned himself as Kennedy's successor in 1960, by blackmailing Kennedy into nominating him for the vice presidency with evidence of Kennedy's womanizing furnished by Johnson's close friend and neighbor, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The assassination, although uniquely ambitious, was another CIA covert military operation, intricately planned by members its inner circle, the "Gold Key Club," hand-picked by and still loyal to Dulles. The killing itself was carried out by the United States Secret Service and long-time CIA Mafia contract shooters. The operation, code-named "The Big Event," ambushed the president in a Dallas motorcade by maneuvering his open limousine into a killing zone where bullets struck him from multiple directions. Johnson then created a seven-man, "blue ribbon" investigative committee, the Warren Commission, to preempt all other inquiries (especially by Congress), and Hoover falsified and manipulated all evidence fed to it and the public. The Commission – whose members included Dulles and, as FBI informant, then-Congressman and later President Gerald R. Ford – issued a "definitive" report that pinned the blame on a "lone nut" assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was actually an FBI "asset" who had infiltrated secret CIA training camps for a Cuban invasion so Hoover could shut them down, ironically gifting the CIA a disposable asset of its own. Oswald himself was shot dead two days after Kennedy in an event staged for live television by the CIA so all Americans could see for themselves "case closed." JUST THE FACTS: As an attorney, I state facts, not speculation. I devoted more than 4,000 hours to research, reviewing mountainous written and pictorial evidence (including newly-declassified CIA and White House memoranda) and studying the life histories of key individuals. Then I assembled the array of disparate fragments into a coherent whole. Anyone can do the same, because the information is all in the public domain – but, as President Kennedy said he wanted to do to the CIA, splintered in a thousand pieces and scattered to the winds. Turning to specific questions: WHY WAS PRESIDENT KENNEDY ASSASSINATED? Mainly because Kennedy was about to end the Cold War, an extraordinarily profitable enterprise for the military-industrial complex. (There were additional reasons, but this was the main one.) The Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962, which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, transformed both Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Kennedy became an outspoken peace advocate and called for nuclear disarmament. Khrushchev responded by secretly entering into in peace negotiations. Kennedy had become our first and last anti-Establishment president. He threatened to gut the profits of American's most powerful private interests. Both leaders had to go, and Dulles knew better than anyone outside the Kremlin that killing Kennedy would topple Khrushchev as well, because replacing Kennedy with hardliner Johnson would compel the Soviets to counter-move by installing their own hardliner, Leonid Brezhnev, which they did 11 months after the assassination. The Cold War, about to end in Kennedy's second term, continued for another profitable quarter of a century. The surprise is not the assassination. The surprise would be if there wasn't one. And one must admit Dulles was clever. He overthrew the two most powerful governments on earth by killing just one man. EFFECT ON THE WAR IN VIETNAM: Johnson's first major act as President was to issue National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 273 on Nov. 26, 1963. It reversed Kennedy's NSAM 263, issued Oct. 11, 1963, that ordered all American military personnel withdrawn from Vietnam by the end of 1965. Interestingly, McGeorge Bundy, the highest-ranking CIA infiltrator in the Kennedy Administration (the national security adviser), drafted NSAM 273 the day BEFORE the assassination. KENNEDY PREDICTED THE CIA WOULD LEAD A COUP: 50 days before the assassination, famed New York Times columnist Arthur Krock published an article quoting a "very high American official" as stating: "If the United States ever experiences an attempt at a coup to overthrow the government it will come from the CIA." Krock later revealed the "official" was President Kennedy, who spoke the words to him the day before. Kennedy often turned to his friend Krock to publish statements too politically explosive for him to speak as President. HOW DID DULLES GAIN SUCH POWER? President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him as the first civilian CIA Director in March, 1953, shortly after taking office, on the advice of Ike's friend and confidant Prescott Bush. Bush, during WWII, had been Hitler's American banker until the FBI seized his bank, and both his son and grandson became U.S. presidents. Dulles, a mysterious man with a Nazi past, in effect infiltrated the CIA as its first Nazi director. President Harry S Truman had created the CIA in 1947 as the intelligence arm of the Executive Branch, by signing the National Security Act. The Act included a CIA charter that unambiguously stated it would function only in response to directives of the president and of the president's own intelligence apparatus, the National Security Council. Nowhere does the charter even infer the CIA is allowed to initiate policy. Dulles, with free reign from Ike to run it as he chose, endowed the CIA with a policy-making function that served his personal aims: to act as the enforcement arm of the military-industrial complex by conducting "covert operations." This military function gave the CIA full use of legitimate armed forces resources off the books and absorbed more than 80% of its budget. Dulles also re-structured the Agency horizontally, not vertically, so no compartment could know what any other was doing. He had also learned to profit from an intelligence post during World War II, when he ran a European office of the OSS (the predecessor of the CIA) while acting as intermediary for Hitler's bankers. Dulles' CIA profited the most powerful private interests in America: industrialists, bankers, big oil, agribusiness, the Rockefellers, and himself. His covert actions included two "regime changes" that turned democracies into dictatorships. In Iran in 1953, he overthrew the Mossadegh government (Operation TP-AJAX) after it nationalized a British oil company that controlled Iran's oil industry; new arrangements gave U.S. corporations an equal share with the British over Iranian oil. Then in Guatemala in 1954, it overthrew the Arbenz government (Operation PBSUCCESS) after it initiated a land-reform program that re-distributed land mainly owned by United Fruit Company (later United Brands) to landless peasants. United Fruit owned 80% of the country's arable land. Dulles had been a lawyer for United Fruit and remained (with his Secretary-of-State brother John Foster Dulles) a major stockholder. In his Guatemala invasion, Dulles killed 150,000 people. THE DULLES TOUCH: Dulles, as CIA chief, specialized in 4 things: assassinating people, overthrowing governments, infiltrating and manipulating the news media (Operation Mockingbird), and conducting horrific mind-control experiments on unknowing subjects (Project MK-ULTRA). The "MK" stood for "mind control" (as spelled in German, "kontrolle") and "ULTRA" was a top secret CIA classification so high it withheld information from the president. Dulles staffed his brainwashing project with dozens of Nazi scientists he smuggled into secret CIA bases in the U.S. to continue the work they had done for Hitler. Among Dulles' imports: the most sadistic man on earth, Auschwitz' "Angel of Death" Josef Mengele (code-named "Dr. Green"), to disembowel children in front of other children to desensitize them. Dulles also planted teams of infiltrators throughout the federal government, including every branch of the military, every secretive agency, and the White House. His operatives could easily influence or even direct Secret Service activities and cut deals with the Mafia. Indeed, one recently declassified CIA memo discloses Dulles personally approved a murder contract with Johnny Roselli, second-in-command of the Chicago Mob under Sam Giancana. Even after losing his CIA post, Dulles remained on retainer as the attorney-enforcer for the military-industrial complex, and continued to serve his clients (as would any good lawyer) through his CIA loyalists, including killing Kennedy – which, for a CIA like that, would be a day at the office. WHO TOLD THE TRUTH? Ironically, the only players who told the truth were the two supposed "killers": Oswald and Jack Ruby, the man who "shot" him in the stomach during his basement-garage transfer from Dallas city to county jail! In a city jail corridor, Oswald told the media he was "just a patsy," and Ruby later told the media "the answer is the man in office now." Then, in 1967, just before his death from sudden lung cancer, Ruby told reporter Tom Johnson the Kennedy assassination "is the most bizarre conspiracy in the history of the world." THE RUBY-OSWALD CASE-CLOSER: Ruby actually fired a blank! Oswald, who had asked to wear a dark sweater before the transfer so he would look better on television, groaned twice and dropped to the ground in an Oscar-worthy performance. The CIA then double-crossed him in the ambulance and shot him for real. The necessity: The coup required 2 assassinations: JFK and Oswald. Letting Oswald live would have kept questions alive for years – during the prolonged process of trial and appeal – which would not only have delayed legitimizing the Johnson presidency, but given the public time to think about what happened and a jury a chance to acquit. That door had to be shut at once – and it was, within 48 hours. Planners selected Ruby so the second killing, like the first, could be pinned on a "lone nut" gunman. But the scenario required a single shot to play out plausibly. Ruby had to lunge at Oswald through a throng of police, reporters and photographers – a multiplicity of variables to hinder him. A fatal shot could only be guaranteed if someone else fired it. Absent this precaution, there may well have been a second "magic bullet" to explain: how a single shot by Ruby caused two wounds to Oswald. The evidence that Ruby did not shoot Oswald: photographer Bob Jackson, who took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the "shooting," said there was "not a speck of blood anywhere" on the body or at the crime scene; the two "stretcher photos" of Oswald being carried to the ambulance show not only no blood on his sweater, but no damage to a single a fiber; and a shot by Ruby would have passed straight through him, but the trajectory of the bullet that killed him was upward. And Ruby, recounting the "incident" (his words) in an interview three weeks before he died, said: "I can't recall what had happened from the time I came to the bottom of the ramp until the police officers had me on the ground." His mind was blank about everything he said and did during his encounter with Oswald, as if programmed by MK-ULTRA to auto-erase. To those who doubt the proposition the Ruby-Oswald "shooting" was staged, consider this: in a plot that required two assassinations, what is the probability the first occurred by conspiracy and the second by chance? IF ANY DOUBT REMAINS #1: The Warren Commission itself concluded Oswald could have fired only three shots. But their own evidence proved at least five. The Commission claimed a first shot missed and injured bystander James Tague with a flying curb fragment, a second (the "magic bullet") penetrated Kennedy's neck and struck Gov. John Connally three times, and the third hit Kennedy's head. But Roy Kellerman, the Secret Service agent in the front passenger seat, testified he heard Kennedy cry out, "My God, I'm hit!" (Warren Hearing Transcripts, Vol. II, p. 73.) Kennedy could only have said this BEFORE the throat-shot, because it took out his vocal chords. Moreover, some 40 out of 40 eye-witnesses (civilian and governmental) swore they heard two head-shots, half-a-second apart. Incidentally, the last shot was an exploding projectile fired from the front that blew the president's brains so far beyond the trunk of the car they splattered people behind it, and the famous Zapruder film shows First Lady Jacqueline stretch her arm to the far end of the trunk to retrieve a piece. (Curiously, the news media has consistently and falsely reported she climbed onto the trunk, as if to escape. The Zapruder film clearly shows she never left the back seat, but planted her knees atop it, grabbed the brain tissue, and immediately sat down again.) There is only one impossibility in the murder of President Kennedy: a lone assassin. IF ANY DOUBT REMAINS #2: Six of the ten members of Kennedy's Cabinet were sent out of the country before the assassination, on a flight to Japan that only one of them had to make, Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Flying with them, for no reason, was Kennedy's press secretary, Pierre Salinger – an expert on motorcade security. Only two important Cabinet members were in Washington, D.C. when Lyndon Johnson became the President of the United States: Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and the Attorney General, Kennedy's brother Robert. Everyone else with authority to run a Department of the federal government was stranded over the Pacific Ocean in a presidential aircraft – with the code book to communicate with the White House missing! They learned about the assassination from an old-fashioned telex – and with no code book, only Johnson could run their Departments. Meanwhile, McNamara, attending a budget meeting at the Pentagon, was never told by anyone there that Kennedy died. He only learned about it 90 minutes later, when he received a personal phone call from Robert Kennedy. Someone cleared a path for Johnson to run almost the entire federal government himself, without any impediment, for the first 24 hours after the assassination. And also absent from the country during the assassination was the Joint Chief of Staff's intermediary with the CIA, Col. Fletcher Prouty. Someone sent Prouty on a pointless mission to the South Pole! IF ANY DOUBT REMAINS #3: Only the CIA had the capability to carry out the assassination the way it happened, including making full use of the Secret Service (which designed a motorcade route that forced the presidential limo, improperly placed first in line for easy targeting, to make a slow-speed 120-degree turn – almost a U-turn – into a plaza open to gunfire from all directions to enter a freeway it did not have to use, abandoned all presidential security in Dallas including ordering his bodyguards off the back bumper of his limo, and later secretly shipped the limo to Ford Motors in Detroit where Lee Iacocca rebuilt it to destroy all evidence of bullet hits, including a bullet hole in the windshield positioned perfectly to hit Kennedy in the head), and staging the Oswald-Ruby case-closer (heavily promoted for public viewing by Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry). The entire sequence of events displays the distinct and brilliant hallmarks of Allen Dulles, as identifiable as an artist's brushstrokes on a painting. The JFK assassination is a case study of how Allen Dulles' mind worked. AND A FINAL TWIST: Rep. Hale Boggs, the member of the Warren Commission most dissatisfied with its findings, died in a mysterious airplane crash in Alaska on Oct. 16, 1972. He had blasted the FBI on the House floor the previous year – on April 5, 1971 – for using Gestapo tactics against opponents of federal policy. Boggs was taken to the airport for the first leg of the trip by a young Democrat who later, as president, appointed Boggs' wife, Lindy, as the U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican after she served 18 years in Congress after her husband disappeared. The young Democrat: Bill Clinton. CAVEAT: This summary answers only the second-level question: Who assassinated President Kennedy? (The CIA.) It does not address the first-level question: Who was the mastermind that set the machinery in motion? Many people, including Jacqueline and Robert Kennedy, believed it was Lyndon Johnson, who coveted the presidency and blackmailed JFK into making him next in line. I believe it was Allen Dulles. I do not find credible the CIA assassinating the President of the United States to serve Lyndon Johnson personal ambitions. The CIA served the global geopolitical and profit interests of the top industrial and financial multinational corporations in the country. Their power exceeded the president's, they were Dulles' clients, and Kennedy had initiated policies that imminently threatened their profiteering. Allen Dulles transformed the CIA from its chartered mission as the intelligence arm of the Executive Branch into a policy-making operation (in violation of its charter) and a military organization that served the profit interests of the military-industrial complex. Did the CIA's clients take competitive bids? Dulles' CIA mastered the "regime change," to precisely the specifications and with precisely the resources its clients required when Kennedy started to pull the plug on the Cold War. There is no profit in peace, JFK was about to cost the most dominant powers in the nation their income, and the CIA was in virtual stand-by mode to stop him. The only credible competitor would have been Prof. Moriarty, and he was fictional, which Dulles regrettably was not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Schweitzer Posted December 25, 2011 Author Share Posted December 25, 2011 You had me going there Michael, up until you got to the part about Ruby firing a blank and the CIA killing Oswald in the ambulance. The CIA was only one of a number of government intelligence agencies that included individuals with the motive, power and capacity to kill the president, and just because whatever happened at Dealey Plaza can be shown to have been the result of a cover intelligence operation, that doesn't mean it had to be the CIA who pulled it off. To me, blaming the CIA is a cop-out, an easy way out of really determining the individuals who did it, and Allen Dulles was out of the loop at the time. The CIA were just as much a Patsy as Oswald, and those individuals really responsible for the murder got away with it. BK JFKcountercoup WHY WAS PRESIDENT KENNEDY ASSASSINATED? by Michael B. Schweitzer Attorney at Law (retired) THE TRUTH: The CIA assassinated President Kennedy, in what is nowadays called a "regime change." The directive came from its former director, Allen Dulles, a criminal mastermind fired by Kennedy for launching unauthorized covert military operations to force him into wars. Vice President Lyndon Johnson, a ruthless political manipulator with a mania to be president and a manic-depressive serial killer with a personal assassin (Malcolm Wallace), supported the plan, secured the financing from his Texas oil backers (H.L. Hunt, John Mecom and especially Clint Murchison, pronounced "Murkison," whom Kennedy enraged by proposing to eliminate a massive tax break for oilmen), and waited in the wings to control the cover-up. Johnson had positioned himself as Kennedy's successor in 1960, by blackmailing Kennedy into nominating him for the vice presidency with evidence of Kennedy's womanizing furnished by Johnson's close friend and neighbor, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The assassination, although uniquely ambitious, was another CIA covert military operation, intricately planned by members its inner circle, the "Gold Key Club," hand-picked by and still loyal to Dulles. The killing itself was carried out by the United States Secret Service and long-time CIA Mafia contract shooters. The operation, code-named "The Big Event," ambushed the president in a Dallas motorcade by maneuvering his open limousine into a killing zone where bullets struck him from multiple directions. Johnson then created a seven-man, "blue ribbon" investigative committee, the Warren Commission, to preempt all other inquiries (especially by Congress), and Hoover falsified and manipulated all evidence fed to it and the public. The Commission – whose members included Dulles and, as FBI informant, then-Congressman and later President Gerald R. Ford – issued a "definitive" report that pinned the blame on a "lone nut" assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was actually an FBI "asset" who had infiltrated secret CIA training camps for a Cuban invasion so Hoover could shut them down, ironically gifting the CIA a disposable asset of its own. Oswald himself was shot dead two days after Kennedy in an event staged for live television by the CIA so all Americans could see for themselves "case closed." JUST THE FACTS: As an attorney, I state facts, not speculation. I devoted more than 4,000 hours to research, reviewing mountainous written and pictorial evidence (including newly-declassified CIA and White House memoranda) and studying the life histories of key individuals. Then I assembled the array of disparate fragments into a coherent whole. Anyone can do the same, because the information is all in the public domain – but, as President Kennedy said he wanted to do to the CIA, splintered in a thousand pieces and scattered to the winds. Turning to specific questions: WHY WAS PRESIDENT KENNEDY ASSASSINATED? Mainly because Kennedy was about to end the Cold War, an extraordinarily profitable enterprise for the military-industrial complex. (There were additional reasons, but this was the main one.) The Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962, which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, transformed both Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Kennedy became an outspoken peace advocate and called for nuclear disarmament. Khrushchev responded by secretly entering into in peace negotiations. Kennedy had become our first and last anti-Establishment president. He threatened to gut the profits of American's most powerful private interests. Both leaders had to go, and Dulles knew better than anyone outside the Kremlin that killing Kennedy would topple Khrushchev as well, because replacing Kennedy with hardliner Johnson would compel the Soviets to counter-move by installing their own hardliner, Leonid Brezhnev, which they did 11 months after the assassination. The Cold War, about to end in Kennedy's second term, continued for another profitable quarter of a century. The surprise is not the assassination. The surprise would be if there wasn't one. And one must admit Dulles was clever. He overthrew the two most powerful governments on earth by killing just one man. EFFECT ON THE WAR IN VIETNAM: Johnson's first major act as President was to issue National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 273 on Nov. 26, 1963. It reversed Kennedy's NSAM 263, issued Oct. 11, 1963, that ordered all American military personnel withdrawn from Vietnam by the end of 1965. Interestingly, McGeorge Bundy, the highest-ranking CIA infiltrator in the Kennedy Administration (the national security adviser), drafted NSAM 273 the day BEFORE the assassination. KENNEDY PREDICTED THE CIA WOULD LEAD A COUP: 50 days before the assassination, famed New York Times columnist Arthur Krock published an article quoting a "very high American official" as stating: "If the United States ever experiences an attempt at a coup to overthrow the government it will come from the CIA." Krock later revealed the "official" was President Kennedy, who spoke the words to him the day before. Kennedy often turned to his friend Krock to publish statements too politically explosive for him to speak as President. HOW DID DULLES GAIN SUCH POWER? President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him as the first civilian CIA Director in March, 1953, shortly after taking office, on the advice of Ike's friend and confidant Prescott Bush. Bush, during WWII, had been Hitler's American banker until the FBI seized his bank, and both his son and grandson became U.S. presidents. Dulles, a mysterious man with a Nazi past, in effect infiltrated the CIA as its first Nazi director. President Harry S Truman had created the CIA in 1947 as the intelligence arm of the Executive Branch, by signing the National Security Act. The Act included a CIA charter that unambiguously stated it would function only in response to directives of the president and of the president's own intelligence apparatus, the National Security Council. Nowhere does the charter even infer the CIA is allowed to initiate policy. Dulles, with free reign from Ike to run it as he chose, endowed the CIA with a policy-making function that served his personal aims: to act as the enforcement arm of the military-industrial complex by conducting "covert operations." This military function gave the CIA full use of legitimate armed forces resources off the books and absorbed more than 80% of its budget. Dulles also re-structured the Agency horizontally, not vertically, so no compartment could know what any other was doing. He had also learned to profit from an intelligence post during World War II, when he ran a European office of the OSS (the predecessor of the CIA) while acting as intermediary for Hitler's bankers. Dulles' CIA profited the most powerful private interests in America: industrialists, bankers, big oil, agribusiness, the Rockefellers, and himself. His covert actions included two "regime changes" that turned democracies into dictatorships. In Iran in 1953, he overthrew the Mossadegh government (Operation TP-AJAX) after it nationalized a British oil company that controlled Iran's oil industry; new arrangements gave U.S. corporations an equal share with the British over Iranian oil. Then in Guatemala in 1954, it overthrew the Arbenz government (Operation PBSUCCESS) after it initiated a land-reform program that re-distributed land mainly owned by United Fruit Company (later United Brands) to landless peasants. United Fruit owned 80% of the country's arable land. Dulles had been a lawyer for United Fruit and remained (with his Secretary-of-State brother John Foster Dulles) a major stockholder. In his Guatemala invasion, Dulles killed 150,000 people. THE DULLES TOUCH: Dulles, as CIA chief, specialized in 4 things: assassinating people, overthrowing governments, infiltrating and manipulating the news media (Operation Mockingbird), and conducting horrific mind-control experiments on unknowing subjects (Project MK-ULTRA). The "MK" stood for "mind control" (as spelled in German, "kontrolle") and "ULTRA" was a top secret CIA classification so high it withheld information from the president. Dulles staffed his brainwashing project with dozens of Nazi scientists he smuggled into secret CIA bases in the U.S. to continue the work they had done for Hitler. Among Dulles' imports: the most sadistic man on earth, Auschwitz' "Angel of Death" Josef Mengele (code-named "Dr. Green"), to disembowel children in front of other children to desensitize them. Dulles also planted teams of infiltrators throughout the federal government, including every branch of the military, every secretive agency, and the White House. His operatives could easily influence or even direct Secret Service activities and cut deals with the Mafia. Indeed, one recently declassified CIA memo discloses Dulles personally approved a murder contract with Johnny Roselli, second-in-command of the Chicago Mob under Sam Giancana. Even after losing his CIA post, Dulles remained on retainer as the attorney-enforcer for the military-industrial complex, and continued to serve his clients (as would any good lawyer) through his CIA loyalists, including killing Kennedy – which, for a CIA like that, would be a day at the office. WHO TOLD THE TRUTH? Ironically, the only players who told the truth were the two supposed "killers": Oswald and Jack Ruby, the man who "shot" him in the stomach during his basement-garage transfer from Dallas city to county jail! In a city jail corridor, Oswald told the media he was "just a patsy," and Ruby later told the media "the answer is the man in office now." Then, in 1967, just before his death from sudden lung cancer, Ruby told reporter Tom Johnson the Kennedy assassination "is the most bizarre conspiracy in the history of the world." THE RUBY-OSWALD CASE-CLOSER: Ruby actually fired a blank! Oswald, who had asked to wear a dark sweater before the transfer so he would look better on television, groaned twice and dropped to the ground in an Oscar-worthy performance. The CIA then double-crossed him in the ambulance and shot him for real. The necessity: The coup required 2 assassinations: JFK and Oswald. Letting Oswald live would have kept questions alive for years – during the prolonged process of trial and appeal – which would not only have delayed legitimizing the Johnson presidency, but given the public time to think about what happened and a jury a chance to acquit. That door had to be shut at once – and it was, within 48 hours. Planners selected Ruby so the second killing, like the first, could be pinned on a "lone nut" gunman. But the scenario required a single shot to play out plausibly. Ruby had to lunge at Oswald through a throng of police, reporters and photographers – a multiplicity of variables to hinder him. A fatal shot could only be guaranteed if someone else fired it. Absent this precaution, there may well have been a second "magic bullet" to explain: how a single shot by Ruby caused two wounds to Oswald. The evidence that Ruby did not shoot Oswald: photographer Bob Jackson, who took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the "shooting," said there was "not a speck of blood anywhere" on the body or at the crime scene; the two "stretcher photos" of Oswald being carried to the ambulance show not only no blood on his sweater, but no damage to a single a fiber; and a shot by Ruby would have passed straight through him, but the trajectory of the bullet that killed him was upward. And Ruby, recounting the "incident" (his words) in an interview three weeks before he died, said: "I can't recall what had happened from the time I came to the bottom of the ramp until the police officers had me on the ground." His mind was blank about everything he said and did during his encounter with Oswald, as if programmed by MK-ULTRA to auto-erase. To those who doubt the proposition the Ruby-Oswald "shooting" was staged, consider this: in a plot that required two assassinations, what is the probability the first occurred by conspiracy and the second by chance? IF ANY DOUBT REMAINS #1: The Warren Commission itself concluded Oswald could have fired only three shots. But their own evidence proved at least five. The Commission claimed a first shot missed and injured bystander James Tague with a flying curb fragment, a second (the "magic bullet") penetrated Kennedy's neck and struck Gov. John Connally three times, and the third hit Kennedy's head. But Roy Kellerman, the Secret Service agent in the front passenger seat, testified he heard Kennedy cry out, "My God, I'm hit!" (Warren Hearing Transcripts, Vol. II, p. 73.) Kennedy could only have said this BEFORE the throat-shot, because it took out his vocal chords. Moreover, some 40 out of 40 eye-witnesses (civilian and governmental) swore they heard two head-shots, half-a-second apart. Incidentally, the last shot was an exploding projectile fired from the front that blew the president's brains so far beyond the trunk of the car they splattered people behind it, and the famous Zapruder film shows First Lady Jacqueline stretch her arm to the far end of the trunk to retrieve a piece. (Curiously, the news media has consistently and falsely reported she climbed onto the trunk, as if to escape. The Zapruder film clearly shows she never left the back seat, but planted her knees atop it, grabbed the brain tissue, and immediately sat down again.) There is only one impossibility in the murder of President Kennedy: a lone assassin. IF ANY DOUBT REMAINS #2: Six of the ten members of Kennedy's Cabinet were sent out of the country before the assassination, on a flight to Japan that only one of them had to make, Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Flying with them, for no reason, was Kennedy's press secretary, Pierre Salinger – an expert on motorcade security. Only two important Cabinet members were in Washington, D.C. when Lyndon Johnson became the President of the United States: Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and the Attorney General, Kennedy's brother Robert. Everyone else with authority to run a Department of the federal government was stranded over the Pacific Ocean in a presidential aircraft – with the code book to communicate with the White House missing! They learned about the assassination from an old-fashioned telex – and with no code book, only Johnson could run their Departments. Meanwhile, McNamara, attending a budget meeting at the Pentagon, was never told by anyone there that Kennedy died. He only learned about it 90 minutes later, when he received a personal phone call from Robert Kennedy. Someone cleared a path for Johnson to run almost the entire federal government himself, without any impediment, for the first 24 hours after the assassination. And also absent from the country during the assassination was the Joint Chief of Staff's intermediary with the CIA, Col. Fletcher Prouty. Someone sent Prouty on a pointless mission to the South Pole! IF ANY DOUBT REMAINS #3: Only the CIA had the capability to carry out the assassination the way it happened, including making full use of the Secret Service (which designed a motorcade route that forced the presidential limo, improperly placed first in line for easy targeting, to make a slow-speed 120-degree turn – almost a U-turn – into a plaza open to gunfire from all directions to enter a freeway it did not have to use, abandoned all presidential security in Dallas including ordering his bodyguards off the back bumper of his limo, and later secretly shipped the limo to Ford Motors in Detroit where Lee Iacocca rebuilt it to destroy all evidence of bullet hits, including a bullet hole in the windshield positioned perfectly to hit Kennedy in the head), and staging the Oswald-Ruby case-closer (heavily promoted for public viewing by Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry). The entire sequence of events displays the distinct and brilliant hallmarks of Allen Dulles, as identifiable as an artist's brushstrokes on a painting. The JFK assassination is a case study of how Allen Dulles' mind worked. AND A FINAL TWIST: Rep. Hale Boggs, the member of the Warren Commission most dissatisfied with its findings, died in a mysterious airplane crash in Alaska on Oct. 16, 1972. He had blasted the FBI on the House floor the previous year – on April 5, 1971 – for using Gestapo tactics against opponents of federal policy. Boggs was taken to the airport for the first leg of the trip by a young Democrat who later, as president, appointed Boggs' wife, Lindy, as the U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican after she served 18 years in Congress after her husband disappeared. The young Democrat: Bill Clinton. CAVEAT: This summary answers only the second-level question: Who assassinated President Kennedy? (The CIA.) It does not address the first-level question: Who was the mastermind that set the machinery in motion? Many people, including Jacqueline and Robert Kennedy, believed it was Lyndon Johnson, who coveted the presidency and blackmailed JFK into making him next in line. I believe it was Allen Dulles. I do not find credible the CIA assassinating the President of the United States to serve Lyndon Johnson personal ambitions. The CIA served the global geopolitical and profit interests of the top industrial and financial multinational corporations in the country. Their power exceeded the president's, they were Dulles' clients, and Kennedy had initiated policies that imminently threatened their profiteering. Allen Dulles transformed the CIA from its chartered mission as the intelligence arm of the Executive Branch into a policy-making operation (in violation of its charter) and a military organization that served the profit interests of the military-industrial complex. Did the CIA's clients take competitive bids? Dulles' CIA mastered the "regime change," to precisely the specifications and with precisely the resources its clients required when Kennedy started to pull the plug on the Cold War. There is no profit in peace, JFK was about to cost the most dominant powers in the nation their income, and the CIA was in virtual stand-by mode to stop him. The only credible competitor would have been Prof. Moriarty, and he was fictional, which Dulles regrettably was not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Schweitzer Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Hi, Greg. Thanks kindly for welcoming me. I agree completely that planning a cover-up is part of planning a covert operation. But I do not agree the CIA's record is one of failure. It is one of success – marred only by a few botched attempts to off Castro. Among the notable successes, of course, are the Iranian and Guatemalan "regime changes" of 1953 and 1954. But success includes intentional failure. The Gary Powers U-2 incident was a successful failure. As Fletcher Prouty points out in his 2009 revised edition of "JFK," Allen Dulles deliberately sent an under-fueled U-2 spy flight into Soviet airspace on May 1, 1960, so it would have to land in Russia, which sabotaged Ike's planned "peace summit" with Khrushchev 16 days later (captions opposite page 60). The Bay of Pigs fiasco was another planned failure. A recently de-classified CIA internal memorandum shows the Agency knew the invasion would fail unless the president sent in troops, a little snag Dulles never mentioned to JFK. Dulles launched the fiasco expecting the failure would compel Kennedy to salvage the mess with a land invasion, and was stunned when the president rejected the bait and trashed the ringleaders instead. Finally, Watergate was a successful failure. The Agency wanted to swap out Nixon with Ford, and knew staging the botched break-in would cause the paranoid Nixon to self-destruct. The CIA was so successful as a serial evil-doer, President Eisenhower came as close as he could to warning the public about it in his farewell address to the nation on January 17, 1961. Ike declared the "military-industrial complex" had become a threat to our very democracy. Insiders knew full well he was pointing the finger at the CIA. That the CIA can be named in even ONE failure, let alone the actual number that can be traced back to them, speaks volumes as to their ineptitude in operational matters. As a supposed clandestine service NONE of their activity should be publicly known, by definition--NONE. If they had been our chief intelligence service over the years we would all be speaking Russian and eating a Bowl of Borscht. As it is, various branches of Military Intelligence are responsible for the "real deal" as far as that goes. The Agency is good at a lot of things. But, the events in Dallas are not among them. Even my late friend, Fletcher Prouty, made it quite clear that the Agency was not responsible for the deed. They were deeply entrenched in the cover up, though. Well, better yet, they were deeply involved in executing facets of the "cover story" at the direction of their masters above the Secret Team. The Dulles CIA's failures were not known for many years, until forcibly revealed by congressional inquiries and Freedom of Information Act proceedings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Burnham Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Let me repeat: That the CIA can be named in even ONE failure, let alone the actual number that can be traced back to them, speaks volumes as to their ineptitude in operational matters. As a supposed clandestine service NONE of their activity should be publicly known, by definition--NONE. If they had been our chief intelligence service over the years we would all be speaking Russian and eating a Bowl of Borscht. As it is, various branches of Military Intelligence are responsible for the "real deal" as far as that goes. The Agency is good at a lot of things. But, the events in Dallas are not among them. Even my late friend, Fletcher Prouty, made it quite clear that the Agency was not responsible for the deed. They were deeply entrenched in the cover up, though. Well, better yet, they were deeply involved in executing facets of the "cover story" at the direction of their masters above the Secret Team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Schweitzer Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 (edited) Allen Dulles WAS the loop. No, you are quite mistaken. Dulles' own basic training was primarily as a lawyer. Even as DCI Dulles did not give orders, he took them. Dulles' experience was primarily as a Nazi operative and financier. And you are worse than mistaken. You ought to be lobotomized. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." Michael, Have you read either of the biographies of Allen Dulles? And Greg is certainly an educated student of the Cold War history and not mistaken as to Dulles' limits as a lawyer and DCI. His brother, as Sec State, was more powerful and publicly influential. Do you know that his primary experience with Nazis was in Switzerland during WWII when he participated in the Valkyrie Plot to kill Hitler, which was a coup as well as an assassination? Sure he also permitted PAPERCLIP, which brought in the Nazi scientists to USA to begin NASA, and rehabilitated Gehlen and utilized his Operation WRINGER against the commies, but its certainly a great stretch to say that his primary experience was as a Nazi operative and financer. BK JFKcountercoup Dulles participated in the Valkyrie plot not because he disagreed with Hitler, but because many Nazis wanted to replace Hitler with someone more compliant. Edited December 28, 2011 by Michael Schweitzer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Schweitzer Posted December 31, 2011 Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 You had me going there Michael, up until you got to the part about Ruby firing a blank and the CIA killing Oswald in the ambulance. The CIA was only one of a number of government intelligence agencies that included individuals with the motive, power and capacity to kill the president, and just because whatever happened at Dealey Plaza can be shown to have been the result of a cover intelligence operation, that doesn't mean it had to be the CIA who pulled it off. To me, blaming the CIA is a cop-out, an easy way out of really determining the individuals who did it, and Allen Dulles was out of the loop at the time. The CIA were just as much a Patsy as Oswald, and those individuals really responsible for the murder got away with it. BK JFKcountercoup Have you read Mark Lane's recent "Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK"? Of course, Mr. Lane has only been researching the Kennedy assassination since 1964. Your comment says you've majorly surpassed him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. A. Copeland Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 (edited) If the CIA was a weapon in this case used to fire the "shots" then it takes someone to shoot the weapon. This is where Dulles (as one of MANY) fits in. The Dulles' has always, always been a servant of the ruling class. When you learn the honest nature of the CIA (its origins, etc) then it makes perfect sense why the CIA was used for such a task. According to Fintan Dunne at BreakForNews, I'd rather use "CIA" as more of a 'shorthand': The CIA Fakes is a catchphrase term to describe a group which includes:-- Covert Operatives of the CIA, NSA and DIA; of the U.S. Corporate/Military Industrial Complex; of the intelligence services of U.K. Spain, France Holland, Germany, and Russia. -- Political Agents working within the Democratic Party, Republican Party, Democratic Black Caucus, Green Party, and Patriot Movement. -- Politicians in the U.S., U.K. Spain, France, Germany and Russia --who pose as 9/11 skeptics. -- Media, including Mainstream, Alternative Media and Internet broadcasting media who either front for, cooperate with, or are directly employed by intelligence services mentioned above. Therefore, if the CIA is a kind of Patsy, then in some sense, I can see how but I would think that it depends on what the CIA truly is. Is it an independent US Government agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior US policymakers. or something more? If the former, then it was used, like so many others in order to serve the ends of a very sinister cartel. But, if is the latter, then perhaps it comes as no surprise that the CIA was doing exactly what it was created to do. Edited January 1, 2012 by B. A. Copeland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Kelly Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 You had me going there Michael, up until you got to the part about Ruby firing a blank and the CIA killing Oswald in the ambulance. The CIA was only one of a number of government intelligence agencies that included individuals with the motive, power and capacity to kill the president, and just because whatever happened at Dealey Plaza can be shown to have been the result of a cover intelligence operation, that doesn't mean it had to be the CIA who pulled it off. To me, blaming the CIA is a cop-out, an easy way out of really determining the individuals who did it, and Allen Dulles was out of the loop at the time. The CIA were just as much a Patsy as Oswald, and those individuals really responsible for the murder got away with it. BK JFKcountercoup Have you read Mark Lane's recent "Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK"? Of course, Mr. Lane has only been researching the Kennedy assassination since 1964. Your comment says you've majorly surpassed him. Mark Lane, like Vince Salandria and others, often blame the CIA for anything that was a covert action, when in fact, the military has been doing covert - need to know - plausible deniable operations years, centuries before the CIA came along. I have not yet read Lane's Last Word, but of course it won't be the last word we hear from Lane. Are you familiar with Lane's role at Jonestown? Or know of his defense of Posner's plagerism? I don't know what how long one has been investigating the case has to do with anything. I have been researching the assassination since 1969, when I was a teenager and didn't know anything. You may be right, depending on what majorly means. BK JFKcountercoup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Kelly Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Are you familiar with Lane's role at Jonestown? Or know of his defense of Posner's plagerism? I never read Lane's book on Jonestown (Strongest Poison?), but would love to hear more about his role there. I studied Jonestown quite a bit at one point and it's a real nexus for countless people involved in dirty tricks (sort of a six degrees of separation from Jim Jones game). Can you fill in any details Bill? Regarding the Posner case, well, let's all remember that Lane is still a lawyer. If you think it's strange on non-legal grounds, don't forget that things like Elton John singing at Rush Limbaugh's wedding happen. No Tom, I can't fill you in on any more details about Jonestown, though I know John Judge can, as he's researched it in detail and has written some things on it. It's just a topic that requires a lot of information and I can't take on any other subjects at the moment, though I encourage others to do so. Judge may be willing to fill you in on Lane's role at Jonestown. And I understand he's a lawyer who represented the Liberty Lobby and Posner, and Gadhafi's daughter hired a Jewish lawyer even though her father eradicated every Jew from Triopli. Do you think Elton was paid to play for Rush or did he do it because they were pals? BK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Schweitzer Posted January 1, 2012 Author Share Posted January 1, 2012 You had me going there Michael, up until you got to the part about Ruby firing a blank and the CIA killing Oswald in the ambulance. The CIA was only one of a number of government intelligence agencies that included individuals with the motive, power and capacity to kill the president, and just because whatever happened at Dealey Plaza can be shown to have been the result of a cover intelligence operation, that doesn't mean it had to be the CIA who pulled it off. To me, blaming the CIA is a cop-out, an easy way out of really determining the individuals who did it, and Allen Dulles was out of the loop at the time. The CIA were just as much a Patsy as Oswald, and those individuals really responsible for the murder got away with it. BK JFKcountercoup Have you read Mark Lane's recent "Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK"? Of course, Mr. Lane has only been researching the Kennedy assassination since 1964. Your comment says you've majorly surpassed him. Mark Lane, like Vince Salandria and others, often blame the CIA for anything that was a covert action, when in fact, the military has been doing covert - need to know - plausible deniable operations years, centuries before the CIA came along. I have not yet read Lane's Last Word, but of course it won't be the last word we hear from Lane. Are you familiar with Lane's role at Jonestown? Or know of his defense of Posner's plagerism? I don't know what how long one has been investigating the case has to do with anything. I have been researching the assassination since 1969, when I was a teenager and didn't know anything. You may be right, depending on what majorly means. BK JFKcountercoup What are your conclusions based on your research? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Kelly Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 You had me going there Michael, up until you got to the part about Ruby firing a blank and the CIA killing Oswald in the ambulance. The CIA was only one of a number of government intelligence agencies that included individuals with the motive, power and capacity to kill the president, and just because whatever happened at Dealey Plaza can be shown to have been the result of a cover intelligence operation, that doesn't mean it had to be the CIA who pulled it off. To me, blaming the CIA is a cop-out, an easy way out of really determining the individuals who did it, and Allen Dulles was out of the loop at the time. The CIA were just as much a Patsy as Oswald, and those individuals really responsible for the murder got away with it. BK JFKcountercoup Have you read Mark Lane's recent "Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK"? Of course, Mr. Lane has only been researching the Kennedy assassination since 1964. Your comment says you've majorly surpassed him. Mark Lane, like Vince Salandria and others, often blame the CIA for anything that was a covert action, when in fact, the military has been doing covert - need to know - plausible deniable operations years, centuries before the CIA came along. I have not yet read Lane's Last Word, but of course it won't be the last word we hear from Lane. Are you familiar with Lane's role at Jonestown? Or know of his defense of Posner's plagerism? I don't know what how long one has been investigating the case has to do with anything. I have been researching the assassination since 1969, when I was a teenager and didn't know anything. You may be right, depending on what majorly means. BK JFKcountercoup What are your conclusions based on your research? I think Elton John was paid to play for Rush. BK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Schweitzer Posted January 2, 2012 Author Share Posted January 2, 2012 You had me going there Michael, up until you got to the part about Ruby firing a blank and the CIA killing Oswald in the ambulance. The CIA was only one of a number of government intelligence agencies that included individuals with the motive, power and capacity to kill the president, and just because whatever happened at Dealey Plaza can be shown to have been the result of a cover intelligence operation, that doesn't mean it had to be the CIA who pulled it off. To me, blaming the CIA is a cop-out, an easy way out of really determining the individuals who did it, and Allen Dulles was out of the loop at the time. The CIA were just as much a Patsy as Oswald, and those individuals really responsible for the murder got away with it. BK JFKcountercoup Have you read Mark Lane's recent "Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK"? Of course, Mr. Lane has only been researching the Kennedy assassination since 1964. Your comment says you've majorly surpassed him. Mark Lane, like Vince Salandria and others, often blame the CIA for anything that was a covert action, when in fact, the military has been doing covert - need to know - plausible deniable operations years, centuries before the CIA came along. I have not yet read Lane's Last Word, but of course it won't be the last word we hear from Lane. Are you familiar with Lane's role at Jonestown? Or know of his defense of Posner's plagerism? I don't know what how long one has been investigating the case has to do with anything. I have been researching the assassination since 1969, when I was a teenager and didn't know anything. You may be right, depending on what majorly means. BK JFKcountercoup What are your conclusions based on your research? I think Elton John was paid to play for Rush. BK I asked you a serious question in good faith. Let's try it this way. If I could read only one book about the JFK assassination, what book would you recommend? And to what percentage do you consider it accurate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Kelly Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 (edited) Michael said: I asked you a serious question in good faith. Let's try it this way. If I could read only onebook about the JFK assassination, what book would you recommend? And to what percentage do you consider it accurate? Gary Mack took it seriously, and thinks that Rush, the two-faced hypocritical junkie can sped his well earned money any way he wants, and I agree. As for recommending books, James Douglas' JFK& The Unspeakabe is probably the best book in print, but I have a strong affinity for Tony Summers' Conspiracy, and especially the followup In, Your Lifetime, which includes some of my original research. Both are totally accurate, as far as I can tell. Here's my review of Douglas' book: JFKcountercoup: JFK and the Unspeakable BK JFKcountercoup Edited January 2, 2012 by William Kelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Schweitzer Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 Michael said: I asked you a serious question in good faith. Let's try it this way. If I could read only onebook about the JFK assassination, what book would you recommend? And to what percentage do you consider it accurate? Gary Mack took it seriously, and thinks that Rush, the two-faced hypocritical junkie can sped his well earned money any way he wants, and I agree. As for recommending books, James Douglas' JFK& The Unspeakabe is probably the best book in print, but I have a strong affinity for Tony Summers' Conspiracy, and especially the followup In, Your Lifetime, which includes some of my original research. Both are totally accurate, as far as I can tell. Here's my review of Douglas' book: JFKcountercoup: JFK and the Unspeakable BK JFKcountercoup Thank you very much. I've read Mr. Douglas' book and it was a profound experience. Not surprising, on reflection, is that a theologian led us on the deepest journey. I've not yet read Tony Summers' works, but will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Kelly Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) Michael said: I asked you a serious question in good faith. Let's try it this way. If I could read only onebook about the JFK assassination, what book would you recommend? And to what percentage do you consider it accurate? Gary Mack took it seriously, and thinks that Rush, the two-faced hypocritical junkie can sped his well earned money any way he wants, and I agree. As for recommending books, James Douglas' JFK& The Unspeakabe is probably the best book in print, but I have a strong affinity for Tony Summers' Conspiracy, and especially the followup In, Your Lifetime, which includes some of my original research. Both are totally accurate, as far as I can tell. Here's my review of Douglas' book: JFKcountercoup: JFK and the Unspeakable BK JFKcountercoup Thank you very much. I've read Mr. Douglas' book and it was a profound experience. Not surprising, on reflection, is that a theologian led us on the deepest journey. I've not yet read Tony Summers' works, but will. Very good Michael, and I was wondering if you could put your legal background to good use on FOIA requests or other legal procedures? Tony's book on 9/11 was well received and I hope he will revisit JFK again before taking on another project. Gary Mack got back to me and insists that I straighten out the fact that he is a conservative, and provided me the following link that supports my contention that Limbaugh is a two-faced hypocrite and junkie and should be, as he puts it, "sent up" to prison for his drug infractions. "Drug use, some might say, is destroyingthis country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, usingdrugs, importing drugs. ... And so if people are violating the law by doingdrugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they oughtto be sent up." - Rush Limbaugh http://en.wikipedia..../Rush_Limbaugh- Prescription_drug_addiction On October 3, 2003the National Enquirer reported that Limbaugh wasbeing investigated for illegally obtaining the prescription drugs oxycodone andhydrocodone.Other news outlets quickly confirmed the investigation.[94] Headmitted to listeners on his radio show on October 10, 2003 that he was addicted to prescriptionpainkillers and stated that he would enter inpatient treatment for 30 days,immediately after the broadcast.[95] Limbaughstated his addiction to painkillers resulted from several years of severe backpain heightened by a botched surgery intended to correct those problems. A subsequent investigation into whether Limbaugh hadviolated Florida's doctor shopping laws was launched by the PalmBeach State Attorney, which raised privacy issues wheninvestigators seized Limbaugh's private medical records looking for evidence ofcrimes. On November 9, 2005, following two years of investigations, AssistantState Attorney James L. Martz requested the court to set aside Limbaugh'sdoctor–patient confidentiality rights and allow the state to question hisphysicians, stating it was necessary because "I have no idea if Mr.Limbaugh has completed the elements of any offense yet."[96] Limbaugh'sattorney opposed the prosecutor's efforts to interview his doctors on the basisof patient privacy rights, and argued that the prosecutor had violatedLimbaugh's Fourth Amendment rightsby illegally seizing his medical records. The American Civil Liberties Union issueda statement in agreement and filed an amicuscuriae brief in support of Limbaugh.[97][98] OnDecember 12, 2005, Judge David F. Crow delivered a ruling prohibiting the Stateof Florida from questioning Limbaugh's physicians about "the medicalcondition of the patient and any information disclosed to the health carepractitioner by the patient in the course of the care and treatment of thepatient."[99] On April 28, 2006a warrant was issued for his arrest on the charge of doctor shopping. Accordingto Teri Barbera, spokeswoman for the Sheriff, during his arrest, Limbaughwas booked,photographed, and fingerprinted, but not handcuffed. He was then released afterabout an hour on $3,000 bail.[100][101][102] Afterhis surrender, he filed a "not guilty" plea to the charge.Prosecutors agreed to drop the charge if Limbaugh paid $30,000 to defray thecost of the investigation and completed an 18-month therapy regimen with hisphysician.[103] Limbaugh asserted that the state's settlement agreementresulted from a lack of evidence supporting the charge of doctorshopping. Under the terms of the agreement, Limbaugh may not own a firearmfor eighteen months and must continue to submit to random drug testing, which he acknowledges havingundergone since 2003. Before his addiction became known, Limbaugh hadcondemned illegal drug use on his television program,stating that "Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And wehave laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs.... And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to beaccused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up." Edited January 3, 2012 by William Kelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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