National Archives to JFK File Seekers: 'DROP DEAD!'

Yeppers, that's the response of the National Archives - reduced to a nutshell - to those of us who want 1,117 critical files released by next year, the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination. Gary Stern, general counsel for the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA), said the Archives would not release the records as part of the Obama administration’s ongoing declassification campaign. Stern cited CIA claims that “substantial logistical requirements” prevented their disclosure next year.

Some of us suspect that translates to: "Some of our assets who played a key part in the events of the time are still alive".  Suspicious? Paranoid? Fuckin-A right! I mean what have they got to hide?

Let's get sensible for once: One single unabashed and full release of the remaining files would quell nearly all the most dire conspiracy subtexts (e.g. those directly implicating the government or its agencies in executive action) and render redundant Comedian Tom Hanks' proposed 13-part HBO series next year - ostensibly designated to "prevent the American people from being snookered by the belief Oswald was framed".

Hey, Mr. Hanks, who is 'snookering' who? If you had one milligram of gumption or intestinal fortitude you'd be using all your energies to get those files released and dealing with them, instead of trying to brainwash the rest of us with two-bit propaganda dredged out of Vince Bugliosi's Warren Commission PR 'brief'.

According to Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, who is writing a book about the impact of JFK’s assassination on American politics:

“This is a deeply disappointing decision that deprives everyone of a fuller understanding of the JFK assassination The 50th anniversary of that terrible event is the perfect opportunity to shed more light on the violent removal of a president. This adds to the widely held public suspicion that the government may still be hiding some key facts about President Kennedy’s murder.”

Well, uh ..duh...and why on earth wouldn't such suspicions be aroused? Any person with a pair of functioning neurons ought to be asking: What has the government got to hide?

The records were originally requested by the nonprofit Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC), will now remain secret until at least 2017, when the 1992 JFK Records Act mandates public release of all assassination files in the government’s possession. However, do not be surprised that if Mitt Romney gets in, he passes an Executive Order mandating the remaining files never be released. Especially if they're found to contain what many of us already suspect.

Interestingly, The Archives’ decision comes as two former CIA officers have gone public with the unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that Cuban leader Fidel Castro had advance knowledge of JFK’s assassination in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. In a piece published in the Daily Beast this week, retired CIA officer Glenn Carle claimed that “the Cuban dictator knew of Lee Harvey Oswald’s intention to kill President Kennedy.” Carle also defended a deceased CIA colleague, David Phillips, from allegations of JFK conspiracy theorists that he conspired in JFK’s death.

Two things:

First, I already exposed the 'Castro did it'  bunkum for the horse shit it is, and people can see that in the blog eviscerating CIA hack Brian Latell's effort:

http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2012/03/biran-latell-another-cia-hack.html

As I asked therein, and do so again: WHY should anyone in his or her right mind believe a pack of inveterate liars and their disinfo lackeys who had no compunction about blowing an airliner out of the sky off the coast of Barbados, on Oct. 6, 1976, killing all 73 on board- the entire Cuban National Fencing Team?

We also know at the time these "Oswald-Castro did it" tricks emerged, the one key person behind it was George Johannides, the Chief of Psychological Warfare branch of the CIA's JM/WAVE station in Miami . Almost all his energy was directed to: a) implicating Oswald in the assassination by a strategy of "sheepdipping" (see Univ. of Maryland Military Science Professor John Newman's excellent 'Oswald and the CIA') and b) processing disinformation from pseudo -double agents and deliberate false sources to implicate Castro, the Soviets, Oswald or all three.

Interestingly, on May 20, 2005, the same CIA that wants us to believe "Castro did it" or "knew about it" or "knew of Oswald", filed papers to block the release of specific JFK-assassination related documents to do with the activities of deceased CIA officer GEORGE JOANNIDES. Coincidence? Hardly!  At the time of Kennedy's death, Joannides (as Chief of Psychological Warfare branch of  JM/WAVE) was the character who manipulated Oswald (in conjunction with disaffected anti-Castro Cubans in the DRE and fellow agent David Atlee Phillips) and over months had him painted as a pro-Castro looneytune. By the time of the hit, 'Hey looka that! The Pro-Castro nut dunnit!' (Despite a savvy columnist, Kenneth Crawford, noting "the suspicious irony inherent in a lone-pro-Castro gunman being fingered in a city (Dallas) regarded as a ‘citadel of right wing strength'’. (Newsweek, Dec. 2, 1963, p. 21)

By doing this, Joannides also set the stage for the later Castro –conspiracy theory, that it was really Fidel who had Kennedy killed because of attempts made on the Cuban leader’s life via Operation ZR-Rifle. Not said, of course, is that Kennedy had already (from late 1962) initiated a rapprochement with Castro through his aide-de-camp Rene Vallejo and Kennedy's emissary, William Attwood. (See, e.g. Peter Kornbluh: ‘Kennedy and Castro: What Might Have Been’, in The Baltimore Sun, Aug. 22, 1999. )

This is what neither of these CIA hucksters, Carle or Latell, want people to process: that it makes ZERO sense for Castro or any of his confederates to want to whack JFK when he was already in the process of healing relations with Cuba, spurred on by the near calamitous events of October, 1962 and the Cuban Missile crisis (when Kennedy was being pressured by Gen. Curtis LeMay and others to bomb and invade Cuba).


Second, Carle's defense of David Atlee Phillips is more disinformation BS.  As reported in The Baltimore Sun, (Nov. 28, 1997): 'Document Supports Conspiracy Theory In JFK Slaying' - Paper Buttresses Theory That Oswald, Agent Met'  we read:


"A long secret government document released Wednesday lends credence to a favorite theory of conspiracy theorists on President John F. Kennedy's assassination: the contention that Lee Harvey Oswald was seen in Dallas with a U.S. Intelligence agent about two months before the killing. This issue has long been connected with unproved reports that a violent Cuban exile group - perhaps with the help of a U.S. intelligence agency - was involved in the assassination."

The Sun article named the intelligence agent as 'Maurice Bishop' which pseudonym was later exposed as the cover identity used by one David Atlee Phillips - who Carle seeks to protect.  The article also noted that the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978 "failed to substantiate the report" but we now know why in the aftermath. It was because both Phillips and Joannides were recruited to stonewall and lie their asses off to the HSCA.

Fifteen years after JFK's killing, Joannides was called out of retirement by the CIA to serve as the agency's liaison to the House committee looking into Kennedy's assassination. During this time he never disclosed his own actions in 1963 to the congressional investigators he was supposed to be assisting. It wasn't until 2001, 38 years after Kennedy's death, that Joannides' support for the Cuban exiles, who clashed with Oswald and monitored him, came to light. Since then, the Agency has blocked every effort to get the bastard's files.


"[Joannides'] behavior was criminal," said Robert Blakey, the former House committee counsel who was deceived by the CIA agent. "He obstructed our investigation."

Even pro-lone nut hack Gerald Posner ('Case Closed')  was disturbed enough by the CIA's file disclosure intransigence (on the release of the Joannides' files)  to comment:

"The agency is stonewalling, It's a perfect example of why the public has so little trust in the CIA's willingness to be truthful."

And also why the public should continue to have so little trust in CIA hack disinformationists like Carle and Latell,  trying to pin the tail on Castro. What, Mr. Carle? Latell's crap wasn't good enough psych material so you had to put in your 0.02? Why isn't Tom Hanks investigating THIS?  Why does Hanks instead choose to become part of the matrix of the "Unspeakable"? (After James Douglass' remarkable book: 'JFK and the Unspeakable'). Well, I suppose for a sometime comedic actor ('Larry Crowne') and dabbler in semi-fictional historic fare ('John Adams', 'Band of Brothers', 'The Pacific' etc.) it's a lot easier to be part of BS orthodoxy and getting HBO  propaganda gigs, than it is to take the straight and narrow road to truth!

Back to David Atlee Phillips who Glenn Carle defends against those nasty CT's: Investigator

HSCA investigator Gaeton Fonzi is abundantly clear regarding the tactics of David Atlee Phillips (The Last Investigation, p. 336):


“David Atlee Phillips, former Chief of the Western Hemisphere Division of the CIA, lied under oath to the House Select Committee – and he got away with it. In its final report the Committee slipped in that fact obliquely, relegating it to a footnote. This was a devious way to cover its ass; it also illustrated the Committee’s readiness to dismiss evidence that would contradict its final report. That it disregarded Phillips' perjury confirms the Committee's tacit decision not to pursue the truth 'wherever it might lead' - especially if it headed toward the CIA. Chief Counsel Blakey had, after all, a' working agreement' with the Agency."

The last point makes it especially confounding to read Blakey's words (above) about being so incensed at Joannides, when the liar and perjurer Atlee Phillips was equally guilty.  Fonzi goes on to emphasize Phillips import (op. cit., p. 336):

"David Phillips represented the most crucial investigative link ever developed between the Central Intelligence Agency and the assassination of President Kennedy."

So for Glenn Carle to assert Phillips had no role is nothing short of doing what Phillips did in respect of the HSCA investigation: lying!  Fonzi, meanwhile, probably has offered the best perspective on our illustrious government's investigations thus far in the end notes of his book, (Gaeton Fonzi: 1993, The Last Investigation, Thunders Mouth Press, p. 410):

“So again, our government slapped the American people in the face. We have been slapped in the face over and over and over again and we still deny it is happening to us. Why?"

Maybe because they believe they can do so with impunity. Let's also bear in mind that a report issued by the House Select Committee on Assassinations noted that of all the anti-Castro groups, the DRE ( Directorio Revolucionario Estudantil ) of Phillips and Joannides was “one of the most bitter toward President Kennedy for his deal with the Russians”.  (HSCA Volume 10, 1979: ‘Anti-Castro Activities and Organizations: Investigation of the Assassination of    President John F. Kennedy’, in Appendix to the Hearings Before the Select Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives (U.S. Government Printing Office, p. 82) The "deal" referenced pertains to JFK's promise to Khrushchev - as part of  resolving the October,1962 missile deal - to attempt no further invasions of Cuba if all Soviet hardware was removed. Kennedy also, to much right wing consternation, removed U.S. Jupiter missiles based in Turkey - 6 months later. All of this had to make the Phillips-Joannides Cuban clique apoplectic.

Well, imagine - just imagine - how riled and furious that same Phillips-Joannides anti-Castro Cuban group would be when it learned (compliments of their CIA handlers, no doubt) that Kennedy was in the process of establishing normalized relations with Fidel via a rapproachement with his aide-de-camp (Indeed, medical assistance had already been dispatched to Cuba as a sign of good will). Hell, the fuckers would have gone ballistic and begged Joannides and Phillips for anything they might do, any role, to exact payback. Anyone want to bet that one or more were offered the job of mechanics in a hit? Too extreme? They'd never do it? Hey ....these were the same fuckers that blew a Cubana Airliners plane (Flight 455) out of the skies off Barbados on Oct. 6, 1976! If they could kill 73 innocents that day don't tell me they wouldn't volunteer to put one or more bullets into a prez that: a) they believed 'betrayed' them by not providing air cover for Operation Zapata (the Bay of Pigs invasion), or b) had begun rapprochement with Fidel Castro.

To quote Larry Sabato on this NARA perfidy:

“After five decades it is ridiculous that information is still being withheld from the people whose taxes paid for it,”

But hey, maybe it isn't a biggie since they feel no compunction - the gov't - about pissing $10b a week on a useless operation like Afghanistan. So what's a little document concealment in the scheme of things? Especially when it may point the way to finally seeing the permanent war-security state entered via a coup de-etat in November, 1963?

Sadly, as the 50th anniversary of the hideous Dallas tragedy approaches, CIA officials are hiding information about covert operations that culminated in the death of perhaps the most liberal president in the last half century and the National Archives is helping them get away with it. Worse, a supposedly "liberal" president and Democrat seems to be condoning it. Go figure!

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For a solid account of the Cubana Airliner bombing (including the false arrest of five Cubans who were in the process of exposing the actual anti-Castro Cuban-American terrorists)  and why no one should ever believe squat on what the CIA or its lackeys has to say about Castro being involved in the JFK assassination, go to:

http://www.freethefive.org/updates/USMedia/USM455Pertierra101111.htm

When is Government Going to Cease Stonewalling and Release the Remaining JFK Assassination Files?

“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. “- John F. Kennedy


While I am a firm believer that government, including our own, can work for the good and be a force for the positive ("raising all boats economically"), I am also deadly skeptical of its claims in certain contexts, and its overt and covert protection of a specific political- economic order. I also get especially pissed off when government stonewalls, as ours has been doing for damned near fifty years, over releasing files pertaining to the JFK assassination. What the fuck gives? More to the point, what are these power mongers hiding?  If the fable is so simple, i.e. "Oswald done it", then why keep on insulting and impeding efforts to gather and look at key critical files, such as those involving top CIA spook, George Joannides?

I got my firm wake up call on government distrust in my first ever visit to Germany in August, 1978. This was while visiting a German couple Kurt and Ute Braun, in Frankfurt-Am-Mein. Much of our visit was briefly summarized in an earlier blog -

http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2009/12/anti-conspiracy-theory-theory-of-idiocy.html

which includes a photo of Kurt showing a film about the Reichstag fire on TV. Kurt, who had been a Hitler Youth (brainwashed and bullied into compliance) saw the extent to which a gov't will go to ramrod its citizens into certain mindsets - hostile to skeptical ones- that it believes undermine its own stability or power.

Thus, in the case of the Reichstag fire, though certainly set "purposely" - in Kurt's words - the Nazi government used it to blame the Jews, and thereby engender an execrable basis to justify their ongoing persecution.   Meanwhile, those brave journalists who suspected a conspiracy or ruse to set the fire purposely and use the event for mounting a security state, were dispatched to the camps.

A discussion of this event then led to Kurt asking me point blank:

"Why are so many Americans, especially in power or influence positions, terrified of seeing a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination?"

Like many young Germans ca. 1961-63, Kurt became enamored of Kennedy, especially on JFK's 1961 visit to Berlin, and his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner!" speech. (And Kurt assured me that no, most intelligent Germans didn't take that phrase to mean JFK was calling himself a jelly donut). Also, like 90 % of Germans who saw the assassination and related events unfold on their TVs, he wasn't buying that a loner named Lee Oswald did it. The final nail in the coffin of the lone nut killer was Oswald's killing by Ruby, in the basement of the Dallas PD as the alleged perpetrator awaited transfer.

"Hitler and the Nazis couldn't have set him up better", Kurt remarked.

"And think about it, with one shot they eliminated the need for a possibly embarrassing trial, and introduction of political material that could jeapordize their case. As for his rifle, ha! Most Wehrmacht troops treated the Italian Mannlicher as little better than a toy. No serious assassin would think of using that. And why take a shot when the auto is moving away from you down a curving Elm Street when you could have taken it down Houston St. approaching your position? This is stupid! It makes no sense! This Warren Commission must take your people to be idiots!"

I rewrite all this now from the vacation diary-journal my wife and I kept for that visit (whenever we travelled, we kept a diary-journal of happenings, people met -  which we'd often intersperse with interesting conversations - made off a small Sony tape recorder.). What can be said here, is Kurt's take was very blunt, and Kurt - had he lived (he died of pancreatic cancer barely 4 years ago) would be astounded that the American government is still keeping Kennedy assassination files under wraps after so much time. Around the time Kurt died, the first efforts were being made to get hold of the Joannides files, since we know Joannides ran the project to set Oswald up, in tandem with a bunch of disaffected Cubans belonging to the DRE (Cuban Student Directorate) and fellow spook, David Atlee Phillips. (It was Phillips who orchestrated the suspicious confrontation between Oswald and Anti-Castro Cubans on Canal St. in New Orleans in the summer of 1963).

But get any files on it? Hell no! Not one! Even the lone nut aficionados like Gerald Posner were heard to complain at the time that the File Archives keepers at NARA, and likely at the behest of the CIA, were going too far and helping to "feed conspiracy frenzy". But in truth, no one with two neurons in his brain needed to be in a conspiracy frenzy to perceive the whole lone assassin story was plain horse shit, never mind it was the "official version". That merely confirmed for most of us the pathetic state to which our government had fallen, if it had to rely on such a palpable fabrication to cover its ass, or cover some hidden shadow system that most of us in deep politics already knew was at work. (See also Kathryn Olmstead's book: 'Challenging The Secret Government', Univ. of North Carolina Press).

Kurt surely did, and he lived more than 4,000 miles from Washington, DC. His wife Ute also shared the same distrustful instincts as Kurt (who often chided me that it was none other than PR-Propagandist Edward Bernays ('Cyrstallizing Public Opinion') from whom Goebbels and Nazi propaganda film maker Leni Reifenstahl received their schooling. Thus, I will be keenly interested to pick up these threads when Ute begins a 2-week visit with us tomorrow. It will be interesting to see how much of our 1978 conversations, documentaries she recalls.

Anyway, back to the current issue of file stone walling. Recall in my January blog :

http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2012/01/50-year-old-jfk-tapes-released-what-is.html

pertaining to 50-year old tapes being released (which exposed the suspicious actions of Air Force Chief of staff, Curtis LeMay - who had compared JFK to Neville Chamberlain in Octo, 1962) that nearly 50,000 pages had still not been released by the National Archives.   As a recent salon.com piece put it:

"Since the government and the big media keep telling us there was no conspiracy and that it was all Lee Harvey Oswald acting on his own, why continue to keep the wraps on?"


Good question! Might I offer an explanation, if only partial? Because the explosive files already released (on other areas of agency, government covert activity)  blow the roof off the concept we have some kind of benign state that is solely invested in "truth, liberty and honor".  I presented some of these files in a blog from last September:
http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2011/09/why-i-remain-cynic-re-wars-on-terror.html

These files (two pages of which are shown just beneath the photos in the blog) are headed up: 'Pretexts to Justify U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba'. The documents basically summarize a set of malicious, outright dirty tricks to be played on Americans (as well as Cubans) to try to entice a war with Castro so the militarist assholes could finally assuage their boners and get rid of  'the Beard".  They detail then a set of coordinated incidents, including: sabotaging ships in the harbor and starting large fires, blowing up ammunition dumps inside Cuban bases, burning aircraft on the base, lobbing mortar shells into the base, sinking ships near the harbor entrance and conducting funerals for mock victims.

Most serious deep politics researchers believe these documents created the template for the verminous "Operation Northwoods" - which author James Bamford exposed in his book, Body of Secrets. This was based on accessing NSA files from the 1960s. Northwoods, as Bamford notes: was intended to sow terror across major American cities (shooting Americans in the streets of Miami, Washington, DC etc), and even attempt to blow up John Glenn’s Gemini craft then blame it all on Castro, to try to incite a war of aggression against Cuba.

Bamford also referred to this fell plan in these terms (op. cit., p. 82):

"maybe the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government. In the name of anticommunism, they proposed launching a secret and bloody war of terrorism against their own country in order to trick the American public into supporting an ill-conceived war they intended to launch against Cuba”

Now think about this very carefully: If as Michael Parenti (Dirty Truths) insists Kennedy was killed at the behest of an entrenched "Gangster state" and that state sought to extend its power after the fact, why would it support ceding further documents that might show its involvement if it's already released enough to hang itself ? And make no mistake the Northwoods documents and the earlier template ones clearly do that. Thus, if a state or cabal inside government would have no compunctions about conducting a war of terror against its own citizens,  to trigger a Cuban war adventure, they'd certainly have no qualms about taking out one man who might stand in their way. (And we know that from late 1962, JFK had begun a rapprochement with Fidel Castro through his aide-de-camp, Rene Vallejo and Kennedy's own emissary, William Atwood)

Thus I am neither surprised, shocked nor baffled the U.S. government continues to stonewall with the JFK files.  Nor am I surprised about the blatant dishonesty say in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Hey, they're playing the game and they know what's on the line! They posture openness and transparency but are scared shitless of the thinking citizens (as opposed to sheeple who merely watch 8 hrs. of TV each day and consume) who want to know the truth of their history, as opposed to being spoon fed idiot fantasies.

Earlier this year, NARA asked on its online Open Government Forum, for suggestions from the public about what it could do to create greater transparency. The most popular idea? Get those Kennedy records out before Nov. 22, 2013, the fiftieth anniversary of the Dallas tragedy. But instead of dealing honestly with this, the feds resorted to disinformation and conflation with flake themes (E.g. UFOs)  as they've done in the past and as I blogged about before;

http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2011/09/conspiracies-and-belief-separating.html

Thus, we beheld (in an interview with The Boston Globe) the Archivist of the United States - who ought to be foursquare for truth, honesty and openness -   claiming that at two public forums held on open records, the majority of public comments came from people interested either in the JFK assassination or … in UFOs. In other words, this tool,  this yap man, was so bereft of balls or insight that - faced with the demand for JFK files still stashed away-  his only recourse was to conflate those seeking these politically dynamite files  (at least as much as Operation Northwoods which disclosed a conspiracy to blow up Americans on their own streets) with little green men. In effect, this egregious yap man sought to conflate those seeking more information on the murder of a president (in very suspicious circumstances) with UFO pursuers.

Not saying anything against the concept of the UFO itself, as I've already blogged on it, but in most elitist mainstream circles UFO aficionados are still regarded as next to cultists. Never mind they may actually have seen something they can't identify - which is really all UFO means - it doesn't mean "alien spaceship". The point is the Archivist tool yapper is invoking it to make fun of both UFO information seekers and JFK file seekers along with them. Hey, neat! Two birds with one shot!

What exposed the top Archivist as a liar were the efforts of  James Lesar, an attorney and co-founder of the Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC), a D.C.-based nonprofit that has fought a long and valiant fight on behalf of the public interest in disclosure.  Lesar attended both of the forums alluded to by the Archivist  and recalls there were no people there asking about UFOs, or that at most it was of negligible interest. In fact, a look at NARA’s online idea forum (now closed) showed no UFO proposals or comments. Again, the modus operandi is to smear the JFK file seeker as one of a species of kookdom.

A worse aspect, to me certainly, was learning that  Cass Sunstein, administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,  has also gotten involved in this stone- walling debacle. One thing for sure, it's hard to figure why a stooge like Sunstein would be anywhere within an administration that promised transparency. I shit you not, but in one paper he wrote a few years ago, he actually advocates for “cognitive infiltration” of groups that espouse alternative views on controversial issues like the events of Sept. 11 (i. e, conspiracy theories).  What, is he freakin' nuts? Look, I don't necessarily buy the standard 9/11 conspiracy theory that the Trade Towers were demolished from the inside, but it's not the gubmint's or any nattering lackey's job to infiltrate any one's mind who believes so. When you aspire to do that, you're no different from the fascists inhabiting George Orwell's Oceania of 1984.  You could as well reinvent 'Newsspeak' if that's your agenda!

A direct quote from Sunstein’s paper:

"[W]e suggest a distinctive tactic for breaking up the hard core of extremists who supply conspiracy theories: cognitive infiltration of extremist groups, whereby government agents or their allies (acting either virtually or in real space, and either openly or anonymously) will undermine the crippled epistemology of those who subscribe to such theories. They do so by planting doubts about the theories and stylized facts that circulate within such groups, thereby introducing beneficial cognitive diversity".

Again, note the astounding arrogance! That anyone who doesn't think inside this little bureacrat's box is an "extremist". (What next? Terrorist? Jeebus Peace!)Never mind the person may simply be pursuing the truth of key pivotal events, like the Kennedy assassination, because he's not confident the government's line is anything other than propaganda.. Again, if there's nothing there, and y'all agree "Oswald done it",  what's to hide? And by the way, you wouldn't know a "stylized fact" from your own stylized, Harvardy bowtie. Surely, if "cognitive diversity" is more than just a Newsspeak euphemism, it must allow for a divergence of thought and opinion once there is the least bit of rational effort to make sense of an event, whether the 9/11 attacks, the Kennedy assassination, or whatever. Cognitive stasis on the other hand, seeks to negate and refute any insight of novelty, to any event, even if it comes by way of hard, independent research. Seems the head honcho of information in this country is more on a mission of "Directorate of Truth" - his own truth.

It's pointy-headed twerps like this guy that give government a bad name and instill only further distrust (and disgust) in government.  Thus, as one salon.com writer put it: "Sunstein is a sort of caricature of everything people don’t like and don’t trust about government. The fact that he’s in charge of “open government” speaks volumes".

But I defer to my friend Kurt's words when I last contacted him:

"Don't believe one word your government tries to tell you about the Kennedy killing. If they were in on it too, and mounting a cover up now, there's nothing good they will do and nothing you will learn from them. They're no different from Reifenstahl's propaganda minions".

Evidently vindicating Kurt's take, Sunstein has said that judges "are not qualified to second-guess executive branch decisions on what the public should or should not be told".  Hmmmmm.....Kurt, were he alive, would say that sounds an awful lot like the old Reich Courts!