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Now the JFK
assassination files are being released. I have wondered for
years what could possibly be in them that was worth suppressing all
these years. Here is one person's
guide to what may be in these papers by Phillip Shenoni for Politico. You can read his guide here.
Shenoni has a theory for what it is that was being protected in those files and why they were not released, and I think his theory is oddly compelling. Here is the theory in my own words.
There was a CIA cover up but it was not about who killed JFK. It was about how much the CIA knew about Lee Harvey Oswald before he came back to this country from Mexico. It was about his activities in Mexico City that *should* have tipped the CIA off that Oswald was planning to kill JFK. Hindsight is 20 20 of course, but apparently the evidence suggests that the warning signs for Oswald were really high and that the CIA was grossly at fault for not doing anything about this.
There was a CIA cover up but it was not about who killed JFK. It was about how much the CIA knew about Lee Harvey Oswald before he came back to this country from Mexico. It was about his activities in Mexico City that *should* have tipped the CIA off that Oswald was planning to kill JFK. Hindsight is 20 20 of course, but apparently the evidence suggests that the warning signs for Oswald were really high and that the CIA was grossly at fault for not doing anything about this.
In other words, the
concern was that the CIA was going to get itself reamed a new asshole
for its failure, and so they conspired to hide the truth from the
Warren Commission, not about who killed Kennedy, but how badly the
CIA had screwed up. A classic, cover-my-ass, bureaucratic fuckup and
protection maneuver of galactic proportions.
No space aliens on
the grassy knoll. No mafia paid for, Castro financed, commie-plot to
kill Kennedy. No CIA rogue operation gone wrong. No Oliver Stone
revealed truth. Just the CIA covering up its gross failure to do its
job and protect America.
And lets not forget
that LBJ and every president since then has known this truth and
decided not to tell the American people. And every single bipartisan
heads of the Congressional Intelligence Oversight Committees knew or
could have known and did not tell the American people.
Just like today,
when the President and Congress fails to tell us that the Russians
threw the election to Trump.
Whats my point? My
point is, if you lie and you lie and then you lie again, why should
we ever believe you?
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