20-08-2015, 09:22 PM
Albert Doyle Wrote:There was a window of democratic sunshine under Carter where the House Select Committee on Assassinations was formed. The right-wing military type governments that followed Carter have disallowed such democratic committees.
Actually the HSCA was formed in 1976 while Ford was still President, not that he had anything to do with it. It was that particular liberal Congress elected 11/1974 in the aftermath of Watergate, lasting until the GOP came back in the elections of 11/1978, that did some good things.
Carter is a good man, but he had too many people like Zbigniew Brzezinski in his administration making their own policies. And when Stansfield Turner cleaned house at the CIA, many of them just went off and formed their own private spook networks (which made things worse, leading to the October Surprise, Iran-Contra, etc.)