01-11-2015, 03:59 AM
This is why Bill Turner once said to me that the JFK case marked the begining of the end of Hoover's image among the Washington insiders.
He said that to him, as he started reading the memos, it became clear the fix was in.
Because, as he told me, there were three major steps in any FBI inquiry:
1.) The collection of all pertinent leads
2.) The following out of those leads to their ultimate ends
3.) The collation of all relevant information garnered into a cohesive report that did not assign guilt but just enumerated all the important information about the crime.
He then told me that you could not get to point three without doing point 2. And that was the most important step. To him it was obvious that step 2 was not carried out with any rigor. Therefore, step three was completely dubious in the JFK case.
This is what convinced him that someone upstairs had made it clear that they did not want a real inquiry. They wanted the FBI to come to the same conclusion that Henry Wade had.
And BTW, this is one of the worst parts of Bugliosi's book. Its a complete cover up of the FBI's performance.
He said that to him, as he started reading the memos, it became clear the fix was in.
Because, as he told me, there were three major steps in any FBI inquiry:
1.) The collection of all pertinent leads
2.) The following out of those leads to their ultimate ends
3.) The collation of all relevant information garnered into a cohesive report that did not assign guilt but just enumerated all the important information about the crime.
He then told me that you could not get to point three without doing point 2. And that was the most important step. To him it was obvious that step 2 was not carried out with any rigor. Therefore, step three was completely dubious in the JFK case.
This is what convinced him that someone upstairs had made it clear that they did not want a real inquiry. They wanted the FBI to come to the same conclusion that Henry Wade had.
And BTW, this is one of the worst parts of Bugliosi's book. Its a complete cover up of the FBI's performance.