by Melinda
Pillsbury-Foster
G. Robert Blakey is the former
general counsel of the House Select Committee on Assassinations
(HSCA), which issued its report in 1979.
At the time Blakey said, “It is
time that either Congress or the Justice Department conducts a real
investigation of the CIA,” Blakey
said at a conference last month. “Indeed, in my opinion,
it is long past time.”
Still angry
that his committee was thwarted in September of this year Blakey
spoke out at the Assassination Archives & Research Center (AARC)
Conference, held on September 26 in Bethesda, Maryland.
The HSCA
was not satisfied with the previous investigations on the
assassination of JFK. They wanted answers. The answers were in the
National Archives, sealed. The CIA is not budging, so the documents
will remain in the Archives until 2017 – or who knows when.
Congress
unanimously passed a law in 1992 requiring the release of JFK
records. It is now 2014, 22 years later and the CIA is still
refusing to cooperate.
Apparently
no one with any access to the continual leak of information today
believes Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone assassin, or had anything to do
with the JFK murder. This is the conclusion drawn from the ongoing
dialog between people, many of them having first hand knowledge of
the assassination in 1963. As they get older they grow concerned
about what this kind of 'security' has wrought for America.
Although my
respect for Congress is not high they are the people elected to
represent us. Why then has every administration since 1992, these
include Bush, Senior, Clinton, Bush W, and Obama, not instituted an
investigation of the CIA by the Department of Justice or simply
closed down the agency?
This was
the course of action Kennedy was considering at the time of his
untimely death in Dallas. Curious coincidence there.
Bush,
Senior once headed the CIA. Today the Bush Family and the Clintons
are very friendly. And Obama's family worked for the CIA, too.
Evidently, those who become presidents, the critical position for
doing something about the CIA, are very inclined to accept CIA
assurances that all is well.
Perhaps it is time to take the advice
offered by Blakey, “It is time that either Congress or the
Justice Department conducts a real investigation of the CIA. Indeed,
in my opinion, it is long past time.”
Now,
who is going to bell the cat?
See: Former House JFK Murder Prober Alleges CIA ‘Lied,’ Seeks Hidden Records
See: Former House JFK Murder Prober Alleges CIA ‘Lied,’ Seeks Hidden Records
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