17-07-2009, 06:54 PM
Being a Johnny-come-lately in both the large subject of JFK's assassination and this thread, I don't post here to posit a POV on specific actions or interpretations about that day or moment. But perhaps there ought to be a new thread (or two), because I can't help think of the parallels over time that might also involve the Secret Service and other politicos and others involved in the black arts, black ops, and deep politics. Here is where we could insert the old Roman phrase about guarding the guardians.
Some examples come quickly to mind:
A reference by Baker in "Family of Secrets" to a tie to the Dallas Civil Defense entity and the activation of what today we would call an EOC, an emergency operating center, which -- it can and has been argued -- can be used surreptitiously as a tool for a black op running simultaneously with or inside of a benign activity;
the obvious connections and similarities on 9/11 with the Secret Service operating a communications system under the direction of Cheney that allowed situational awareness and -- it has been argued -- the insertion of misdirecting data into the real-time operational world;
the fact that the Secret Service's own command center was activated at around 7:30 AM on the morning of 9/11/01 (noted in a National Geographic documentary on the Secret Service);
a video of the Secret Service agent standing down from the back bumper of the Presidential limousine as it slowed to take a corner and, throwing his hands up in question three times and looking up over his shoulder as if looking at the source of the order to do so from a "handler" in a window high above the route (that's from my memory and impression -- the video may still be available)(and then there is always the question of veracity and validity of that video "evidence");
the fact that, in both New Orleans and Dallas, the "trail" of the story ran underneath the windows of the offices of key Federal agencies;
the presence, existence (and role?) of the Federal offices inside WTC7.
There's a great line in Baker's "Family of Secrets" about the dangers to a state's own integrity from the state's own secret operations/intelligence entity.
Some examples come quickly to mind:
A reference by Baker in "Family of Secrets" to a tie to the Dallas Civil Defense entity and the activation of what today we would call an EOC, an emergency operating center, which -- it can and has been argued -- can be used surreptitiously as a tool for a black op running simultaneously with or inside of a benign activity;
the obvious connections and similarities on 9/11 with the Secret Service operating a communications system under the direction of Cheney that allowed situational awareness and -- it has been argued -- the insertion of misdirecting data into the real-time operational world;
the fact that the Secret Service's own command center was activated at around 7:30 AM on the morning of 9/11/01 (noted in a National Geographic documentary on the Secret Service);
a video of the Secret Service agent standing down from the back bumper of the Presidential limousine as it slowed to take a corner and, throwing his hands up in question three times and looking up over his shoulder as if looking at the source of the order to do so from a "handler" in a window high above the route (that's from my memory and impression -- the video may still be available)(and then there is always the question of veracity and validity of that video "evidence");
the fact that, in both New Orleans and Dallas, the "trail" of the story ran underneath the windows of the offices of key Federal agencies;
the presence, existence (and role?) of the Federal offices inside WTC7.
There's a great line in Baker's "Family of Secrets" about the dangers to a state's own integrity from the state's own secret operations/intelligence entity.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"