Anyone want to discuss HARVEY & LEE?

[Jim Hargrove]

You are an attorney, Dawn. Is it not considered, in your line of work, that a claim that an FBI report is fake or otherwise unreliable, is an extraordinary claim? What are the obligations (burden of proof) of the party who makes such a claim?

This is a surprising statement coming from someone who is interested in the Kennedy assassination, because evidence of FBI malfeasance runs throughout its so-called investigation of JFK's murder. A statement like that is doubly surprising because FBI malpractice has been in the news this very year, as well as in earlier decades. Consider these stories from 2015:


Pseudoscience in the Witness Box: The FBI faked an entire field of forensic science [Slate.com April 22, 2015]:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/04/fbi_s_flawed_forensics_expert_testimony_hair_analysis_bite_marks_fingerprints.html

The Washington Post's 4/18/2015 story begins with these chilling words: "The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crim...story.html

Remember the famous Frederick Whitehurst scandal from the late 1990s, when this top FBI scientist disclosed that his organization had fabricated evidence for both the first World Trade Center bombing and the Oklahoma City bombing? The Justice Department's inspector general, Michael Bromwich, made a scathing report about FBI evidence tampering that everyone in the media had to work really hard to forget. The FBI tried to hound Whitehurst to death, for which he eventually earned more than a million dollars from the Bureau for its harrassment.


In the Kennedy case, the ham-fisted malfeasance of the FBI is equally obvious. Consider the testimony of FBI evidence expert James Cadigan. Cadigan's testimony had to be altered because he inadvertently spilled the beans that the FBI had secretly seized "Oswald's possessions" from Dallas police the night of the assassination, and secretly returned them to Dallas three days later, only to publicly send them back to Washington later the same day. While secretly at FBI headquarters, 225 items of evidence catalogued by Dallas Police became 455 items of evidence, a Minox "spy" camera became a Minox light meter, and so on.









For a thorough examination of how the FBI cooked the books on the Kennedy assassination, see: http://harveyandlee.net/FBI/FBI.html.