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When John Kennedy was assassinated in November, 1963, I was six years old.\u00a0 I think I was in kindergarten at the time.\u00a0 I remember the day because the nuns were all crying.\u00a0 So, there hasn\u2019t been a day in my life that I can remember that I wasn\u2019t aware of Kennedy\u2019s assassination.\u00a0 And after the initial shock wore off my family members, it receded into my mind until his brother was assassinated a few years later.\u00a0 At that point, talk about conspiracies finally became loud enough and I was old enough to have it impinge on my thoughts.<\/p>\n

But I wasn\u2019t receptive to these ideas.\u00a0 I just believed what the official version stated.\u00a0 Lone gunmen were responsible and that was all there was to it.<\/p>\n

I was watching a podcast that had a JFK conspiracy advocate on<\/a>.\u00a0 After the initial obvious question (\u201cIs there a smoking gun in the new document dump?\u201d) was answered with a, \u201cWhoa, whoa! \u00a0I\u2019m on page 3 of 60,000,\u201d the expert explained that what he\u2019s looking for isn\u2019t a smoking gun but rather a pattern of facts that steers the explanation toward one of the likelier causes.<\/p>\n

And here, there is a lot of information that tells us more about what was going on between JFK and his intelligence agencies.\u00a0 And none of it makes the CIA look less guilty.\u00a0 The CIA had been following Oswald around for the four years before the assassination and they knew exactly where he lived and worked and how close he would be to Kennedy that day.\u00a0 And there has never been a doubt that Jack Ruby was a mob-controlled stooge who did what he was told.\u00a0 And there is no doubt that the CIA had connections to the mob and that the mob hated the Kennedys.\u00a0 And JFK had been talking to some of the top staff in his administration about busting up the CIA for what happened in Cuba.\u00a0 This \u201cconspiracy theorist\u201d doesn\u2019t come right out and say that the CIA had Kennedy killed.\u00a0 But that\u2019s what he\u2019s pointing to.<\/p>\n

Somehow that still shocks me.\u00a0 Now, looking at what happened to Trump last year in Pennsylvania should make it seem obvious that the Deep State is completely ruthless and unconcerned with consequences.\u00a0 But as intellectually simple as that situation is to see, it\u2019s still horrifying to me.\u00a0 Sure, I\u2019ve known for decades now that our government isn\u2019t the white hat good guys that I thought they were when I was younger.\u00a0 Iraq taught me that politicians of both parties use Americans as pawns whenever it\u2019s convenient.\u00a0 We have psychopaths running many of our agencies.\u00a0 Just look at the FBI and the Justice Department.\u00a0 Guilt and innocence are the least important aspects of people they target for \u201cjustice.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the shock tells me that probably the most important work Donald Trump can do before he retires to Mar a Lago in three and half years is to empty out the CIA and the FBI.\u00a0 I think of these two agencies as threats a hundred times more dangerous to this country than China and Russia combined.\u00a0 We have a very expensive and on balance, formidable military machine.\u00a0 Even after eighty years, the nuclear deterrence of our arsenal is still potent.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think the benefits we gain from the intelligence and judgement of these intelligence agencies compensate us for the malice and deception that they seem to display as their defining characteristics.\u00a0 They are a threat to the elected leaders of this country and they represent a potent force preventing the very information which our leaders need from reaching them.\u00a0 Instead of facts they provide a narrative that is convenient for their interests but often is confusing and destructive.\u00a0 I wish Donald Trump all the best luck in tackling these rogue agencies.\u00a0 And I hope he breaks them permanently.<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s what I thought about today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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