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UPDATE: Possible transfer

When I was planing to write this book-I went through a six month gestation period in 2017 in planning to write it I read a whole bunch of historical books on Nixon. I also read some conspiracy books-regarding Lee Harvey Oswald.

What precipitated this was Roger Stone-I did some reading up on him and came across his LBJ killed JFK book and gave it a read.

I myself had always previously dismissed such ‘conspiracy theories’ but after reading some of the literature I came away feeling that there really is something there. 

To be clear I don’t for one moment believe it was LBJ. But that both Stone and his operative, Jerome Corsi, were writing such LBJ killed JFK books at the same moment is in itself yet another fascinating coincidence. 

I mean I don’t know for sure who killed JFK-maybe it was Oswald or at least he was the shooter. But I did feel that if nothing else there’s a lot more about him than the authorities were willing to admit-just a lone whacko who killed JFK out of the rage of a lone whacko over his own lone wackiness.

But I did come to find his behavior so counterintuitive that if nothing else I wonder if he was some sort of agent provocateur-a spy? But if a spy for whom? The CIA? The Soviets? The Cubans? Was the mob-that hated the Kennedys-involved? I found it very curious that Oswald was blatantly wearing his pro Castro and pro Soviet sympathies on his sleeve while a young recruit of the US military in the late 1950s, just a few years after McCarthy was finally put down and yet far from trying to hide his espousal of ‘Godless Communism’ he was shouting it from the highest rooftops. And yet he didn’t end up like the Rosenbergs.

Because he was so blatant and vocal about it I wonder if he wasn’t working for someone. An anecdote you hear is that after Oswald emerged both the Russians and the Americans told each other-I thought he was one of yours. 

 

What about Congresswoman Jackie Speier? She was a prisoner at Jonestown and was shot 5 times-do you think she finds the idea of conspiracy theories too farfetched to be believed?

https://www.rollcall.com/news/jonestown-murders-jackie-speier-37-years

FN: I tend to be less interested in the physical side of the evidence-the debate over wether he was really the shooter or if there was a ‘second shooter’ etc-because even if he was the shooter that doesn’t necessarily mean he acted alone.

Interestingly to this day most Americans don’t believe Oswald was the lone assassin.

https://www.history.com/news/why-the-public-stopped-believing-the-government-about-jfks-murder

 

For the MSM there’s no sicker burn than to dismiss something as a conspiracy theory and this is why the skills that make someone a great MSM journalist couldn’t be more different than what makes someone a great criminal investigator.

The MSM on the other hand tends to boil everything down in Russian Conspiracy to a one off-they ignore all the previous facts we’ve already learned and looks at the new piece in a bubble and then chalks it up to a ‘coincidence.’

Again what the conventional wisdom often amounts to is little more than the preconceptions of timid, unimaginative people-who would rather be wrong in the pack than right but deviate from the received wisdom. This is why the media itself engaged in the most baseless conspiracy theorizing regarding Hillary Clinton were all the dots were immediately connected and the worst  possible scenario was treated as the most likely one-‘Hillary’s very possibly going to jail. If she’s indicted will the Democrats then go with Biden?’

That was the tenor of their coverage throughout the 2016 primary. This is why I argue in Chapter A that the MSM itself is largely responsible for ‘Lock Her Up’-they created the expectation-‘even a liberal journalist like Chris Hayes’-I’m a big fan of his and watch him every night. But I was very disappointed in him when the very last question he asked Clinton before she left late in the primary was ‘So do you worry you will be indicted.’

But that was always a very unlikely prospect. But for him as such a well known liberal to ask that made it seem like it must be a very likely outcome-which is why 60% of Americans believed she should have been indicted.

This is why-as I argue in Chapter A- Comey and the FBI need to be questioned as to why they ever opened Emailgate in the first place as it wasn’t correctly predicated-if the chances of indictment are remote you don’t open it, and it was always clear the chances of indicting Clinton over the emails was remote.

But between Comey’s FBI and the Dean Pacquet’a media there’s a lot of blame to go around. But the real trouble is the mainstream press is that they avoid stories that don’t fit with their preconceptions-the idea that Hillary Clinton was a crook-despite being so poorly predicated-was a long time preconception going back to the 1990s. Indeed, early in 2015 Paul Waldman had warned that many in the MSM think that the Clintons had somehow gotten away with something. The Clintons not just Hillary, the MSM always saw them as a unit and they were still feeling aggrieved from the 1990s. In other words they think Clinton should have been forced out of office in 1998 and were still not over it in 2016.

For contrast notice the way the MSM has decided to whitewash Chris Christie’s record:

In 2016, Sanders’ campaign formed from a binary choice between the senior senator from Vermont and Hillary Clinton, a well-known, well-credentialed and well-qualified, but flawed avatar of the Democratic establishment. But this time, his fiercest opponent might be a candidate that is undefeated: history. His 2020 run may follow in a long line of presidential bids we have observed in the recent past that have all petered out because of a familiar case of wrong candidate, wrong cycle.

There was a point in the early 2010s when Chris Christie was arguably the most popular Republican in the country with a Q score through the roof. The former two-term New Jersey Governor would have been a strong favorite had he chosen to vie for the Republican nomination in 2012. Christie decided to sit the race out, took on four additional years of bad press and entered a fractured 2016 Republican primary where he barely made it past a poor showing in New Hampshire before suspending his campaign.

Not even a mention of Bridgegate or the fact that when Christie stepped down in 2016 his approval rating was 18% in his own state.

But unlike the Clintons the MSM clearly doesn’t believe that Christie got away with something even though you could certainly argue that he has-that his flacks-Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly-went to prison for his crimes. 

Bridget Anne Kelly fought back her tears as long as she could, her lips quivering and her face growing more and more red as the jury foreman pronounced a guilty verdict on each of the nine charges.

She made it to count three. And then the flood began.

It was tough to feel any sense of satisfaction from this. Yes, the system worked, and the rule of law has been vindicated. Both Kelly and Bill Baroni are now felons.

But the big guy got away.

Gov. Chris Christie was smart enough to hide his tracks, guided no doubt by his years as a federal prosecutor. He is the firefighter who knows the tricks well enough to get away with arson.

He deleted sensitive text messages he exchanged with a top aide at a pivotal moment in this conspiracy, and both now say they can’t remember a single word of it. How convenient.

He surrounded himself with an inner circle that was more loyal than principled — all of whom kept quiet for three years as they watched him lie to us.

They knew Christie was not “blindsided” by rogue staff, as he claimed in his famous mea culpa news conference of January 2014. Three of his closest aides admitted under oath that they had spoken to him about this caper much earlier.

So why was the governor not charged? Because knowledge of the plot, while ruinous to his political standing, is not a crime in itself. And because prosecutors had no emails or texts to hang him with, as they did with Baroni and Kelly.”

So the governor will limp onward, damaged but free, never held to account.

That leaves a bad taste. It recalls the 11 common U.S. soldiers convicted of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, while the general who ran the prison got off with a reprimand. Who would say that justice was done?

Defense attorney Michael Critchley spoke to this frustration in his closing argument, when he cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted the question on everyone’s mind:

“Chris Christie: Where are you?”

During the primary he claimed he would be the one to ‘prosecute Hillary Clinton for her-quite imaginary-crimes’ while he walked away scot free for his own very real ones. But the MSM preconception if that the Clintons are criminals-they’ve believed this since Whitewater-and have been sympathetic the GOP’s Ahab like obsession with taking them down whereas the MSM’s preconception of Christie is that he ‘s not a criminal-even though he is. You see the problem with just blindly falling the conventional wisdom of the MSM of Dean Baquet, Chris Cillizza, and Chuck Todd.

Chris Christie where are you? But the MSM didn’t care they were too too busy on the damn emails.

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