12-04-2009, 06:10 AM
The performance of the Agency in this matter exemplifies the deep-seated contempt in which intelligence agencies hold the American people. We paid for the creation of the documents, as part and parcel of a crazy war against a small country. We pay for the continuation of secrecy that surrounds the documentary record every time a CIA lawyer enters a courtroom to put forth legally (and morally) absurd reasons for denying us access to such material. We pay for the institutional contempt with the hard-earned knowledge that the powers-that-be are not our friends, and have not achieved their power for the purposes once suggested in civics textbooks. Your tax dollars at work... That being said...
If and when the Joannides documents that pertain to DRE reporting are released, there are, I believe, a couple of possibilities: 1.) We will find references to the use of Lee Oswald in one or more operations. 2.) The material revealed will prove to be absolutely innocuous.
If the latter (and I think it's a real possibility) the media response will be to scold the agency for being overly paranoid and wasting taxpayer money to prevent the release of such trivial material. In passing, it will be noted that, ONCE AGAIN, "conspiracy theorists" have shot their bolt, and the result of their fevered efforts is: little or nothing. Yet another reason why we should sleep securely at night in America. See, there's really nothing out there...
Is the actual Agency posture a genuine hard-core resistance to let go of important historical data, or part of a clever operation designed to flummox the research community? We shall see...
If and when the Joannides documents that pertain to DRE reporting are released, there are, I believe, a couple of possibilities: 1.) We will find references to the use of Lee Oswald in one or more operations. 2.) The material revealed will prove to be absolutely innocuous.
If the latter (and I think it's a real possibility) the media response will be to scold the agency for being overly paranoid and wasting taxpayer money to prevent the release of such trivial material. In passing, it will be noted that, ONCE AGAIN, "conspiracy theorists" have shot their bolt, and the result of their fevered efforts is: little or nothing. Yet another reason why we should sleep securely at night in America. See, there's really nothing out there...
Is the actual Agency posture a genuine hard-core resistance to let go of important historical data, or part of a clever operation designed to flummox the research community? We shall see...