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   Marie2 on November 22, 2013 at 4:39 pm

   The best piece on this day, November 22, Charles P Pierce The Kennedy Assassination And American Fragility

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   Even today, as its blunders and omissions and willful blindness have been exposed by 50 years worth of investigations and research by Congress and by critics — some of the latter, I grant you, a little wilder than others — the Warren Commission’s defenders have employed, as a last line of defense, the idea that the Commission was tasked with tamping down evidence that Castro’s Cuba was involved in the crime because, to have informed the public of that back in 1963 would have been to touch off a nuclear war. The problem with that, of course, is that Castro is now 300 years old and the Soviet Union doesn’t even exist. Why, then, are there still relevant files locked away in the government’s archives? What possible national security concerns can there still be, 50 years later? What is there that we are still too fragile to know?

   One argument with which I have no patience is that the distrust of the Warren Commission, a distrust that has remained remarkably consistent for five decades, is based in our disbelief that a great leader could be gunned down by an ordinary schmoe with a cheap rifle. This. we are told, is too much for our delicate sensibilities to handle. This is arrant, infantilizing nonsense. …

   It’s actually easier to accept that an “ordinary schmoe with a cheap rifle” was a lone nut assassin than that an “ordinary schmoe” was a CIA asset.  But how many “ordinary schmoes” back in 1963 were being tracked by several divisions of both the CIA and FBI?