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December 18, 2013
It's worth noting that the newly released movie "American Hustle" is loosely based on Abscam. The late '70s FBI sting operation known as Abscam was ostensibly political payback for the work of the Church Committee.
@AndrewKroll: Movie director David O. Russell: Political corruption in "American Hustle" is nothing compared to Citizens United http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2013/12/david-o-russell-american-hustle-abscam-citizens-united-chris-matthews
"American Hustle" w/Jennifer Lawrence and the Church Committee

It's worth noting that the newly released movie "American Hustle" is loosely based on Abscam. The late '70s FBI sting operation known as Abscam was ostensibly political payback for the work of the Church Committee.

December 5, 2013
http://www.citizenlane.com/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023681252
Citizen Lane by NCIS' Pauley Perrette

@PauleyP: Me #BobTanenbaum #MarkLane #DickGregory and @TheSteveJaffe at my #CitizenLane documentary screening



http://www.citizenlane.com/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023681252
December 5, 2013
Sahl set up the Johnny Carson - Jim Garrison interview
Johnny Carson took a public relations hit for the way he came off in that interview and Mort Sahl was never invited back to the Tonight Show. Which, given Carson's clout, also goes a long way to explain the backlash Sahl received.
Steve Allen, the original host of the Tonight Show, had another talk show at this time and invited both Jim Garrison and Mort Sahl on. Unfortunately, and most likely conveniently, Steve Allen also invited wingnut 'B-1' Bob Dornan on that panel. Dornan effectively derailed that interview and Mort Sahl's career had been pretty well derailed too.
Here's an excellent piece on Sahl from 9 years ago in January...
"Heeeere's Justice!" 37 years ago this month, Johnny Carson spent 50 minutes with New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison
Sahl is one of my favourite undersung heroes of the Sixties, for having spent the capital of a successful career in the Quixotic pursuit of justice for the murderers of America.
From the cover of Time
to "conspiracy monger"
That strikes me as the trajectory of an honourable man.
There's an interview with Sahl a couple of months later in 1968, before the epochal one-two of Dr King and Robert Kennedy, that is as prophetic as anything I've read from that time:
ARGO: Why is the truth behind the assassination of President Kennedy the last chance of America for its survival?
SAHL: Because the evidence developed by District Attorney Garrison indicates that certain people had to take President Kennedy's life in order to control ours...
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/01/heeeeres-justice.html
Sahl is one of my favourite undersung heroes of the Sixties, for having spent the capital of a successful career in the Quixotic pursuit of justice for the murderers of America.
From the cover of Time

to "conspiracy monger"

That strikes me as the trajectory of an honourable man.
There's an interview with Sahl a couple of months later in 1968, before the epochal one-two of Dr King and Robert Kennedy, that is as prophetic as anything I've read from that time:
ARGO: Why is the truth behind the assassination of President Kennedy the last chance of America for its survival?
SAHL: Because the evidence developed by District Attorney Garrison indicates that certain people had to take President Kennedy's life in order to control ours...
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/01/heeeeres-justice.html
November 21, 2013
Book about Lee Harvey Oswald ©1962
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41fdUrtLKqL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpgA book about Oswald written BEFORE the JFK assasination!
By "rodney23" on May 3, 2000
Kerry Thornley was stationed in Japan with Lee Harvey Oswald at one of only two US bases where LSD experiments took place. It's Thornley's contention that the purpose of these experiments was to create "Manchurian Candidates" - assassins on autopilot. This could be dismissed as a paranoid rant, but this book was written before Nov. 22, 1963. Hmmm, maybe that's why it's no longer in print. If you do manage to get your hands on a copy, count yourself among the lucky.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Idle-Warriors-Kerry-Thornley/dp/0962653403
By "rodney23" on May 3, 2000
Kerry Thornley was stationed in Japan with Lee Harvey Oswald at one of only two US bases where LSD experiments took place. It's Thornley's contention that the purpose of these experiments was to create "Manchurian Candidates" - assassins on autopilot. This could be dismissed as a paranoid rant, but this book was written before Nov. 22, 1963. Hmmm, maybe that's why it's no longer in print. If you do manage to get your hands on a copy, count yourself among the lucky.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Idle-Warriors-Kerry-Thornley/dp/0962653403
November 18, 2013
?@TimothyS: AP story linking Lee Harvey Oswald with Jack Ruby, from a Tokyo newspaper, Nov. 24, 1963:
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They need to reinforce the spin...
So you'll ignore the information disseminated before the narrative was agreed upon...


November 16, 2013
?@TimothyS: AP story linking Lee Harvey Oswald with Jack Ruby, from a Tokyo newspaper, Nov. 24, 1963:
:large
AP story linking Lee Harvey Oswald with Jack Ruby


November 13, 2013
Everyone wants to know: Why did CBS correspondent Lara Logan trust Dylan Davies, the now-discredited security contractor, and the story he told 60 Minutes about the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya? Its truly mystifyingunless, that is, you know about her last significant lapse in professional judgement involving a security contractor.
Many people know that in 2008 Logan married Joseph W. Burkett, a defense contractor she met while stationed in Baghdad to cover the Iraq War for CBS News. Logan and Burkett were both married to other people when they became involved, and the story of their war-zone love affaircomplete with reports of a brawl between Burkett and CNNs Michael Ware, another rival for Logans affectionslit up the tabloids at the time.
What most people dont know, however, is the nature of Burketts work in Iraq. He was an employee of [font color=darkred]the Lincoln Group[/font], a [font color=blue]now-shuttered strategic communications and public relations firm hired by the Department of Defense in 2005 to plant positive stories written by American soldiers in Baghdad newspapers during the Iraq War.
He did information operations, one former colleague of Burkett's told Gawker. It was really spooky stuff. We worked with one of those special spooky IO outfits that didnt even have a unit patch.[/font] Its the kind of work for which a close relationship with an American network correspondent might come in handy...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101678430
I highlighted the area from the story I posted yesterday in Good Reads.
It's interesting that wikipedia makes no mention of the Lincoln Group being "Shuttered" ..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Group
Lincoln Group

Everyone wants to know: Why did CBS correspondent Lara Logan trust Dylan Davies, the now-discredited security contractor, and the story he told 60 Minutes about the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya? Its truly mystifyingunless, that is, you know about her last significant lapse in professional judgement involving a security contractor.
Many people know that in 2008 Logan married Joseph W. Burkett, a defense contractor she met while stationed in Baghdad to cover the Iraq War for CBS News. Logan and Burkett were both married to other people when they became involved, and the story of their war-zone love affaircomplete with reports of a brawl between Burkett and CNNs Michael Ware, another rival for Logans affectionslit up the tabloids at the time.
What most people dont know, however, is the nature of Burketts work in Iraq. He was an employee of [font color=darkred]the Lincoln Group[/font], a [font color=blue]now-shuttered strategic communications and public relations firm hired by the Department of Defense in 2005 to plant positive stories written by American soldiers in Baghdad newspapers during the Iraq War.
He did information operations, one former colleague of Burkett's told Gawker. It was really spooky stuff. We worked with one of those special spooky IO outfits that didnt even have a unit patch.[/font] Its the kind of work for which a close relationship with an American network correspondent might come in handy...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101678430
I highlighted the area from the story I posted yesterday in Good Reads.
It's interesting that wikipedia makes no mention of the Lincoln Group being "Shuttered" ..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Group
November 12, 2013
"The Warren Commission was set up at the time to feed pablum to the American people for reasons not yet known .. One of the Biggest Cover-ups in the history of this Country occurred at that time." -- Sen. Richard Schweiker (6:30 into the 1978 documentary above)
A couple of side notes...
1) It's very powerful watching Senator Schweiker's smackdown of the Warren Commission.
2) You will never see a Republican like Richard Schweiker again. The Koch Bros & Co. would never allow it.
Sen Richard Schweiker chaired a subcommittee under the "Church Committee"
"The Warren Commission has collapsed like a House of Cards" -- Senator Schweiker"The Warren Commission was set up at the time to feed pablum to the American people for reasons not yet known .. One of the Biggest Cover-ups in the history of this Country occurred at that time." -- Sen. Richard Schweiker (6:30 into the 1978 documentary above)
From 1975 to '76, Schweiker chaired a subcommittee under the "Church Committee" that looked into to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In an interview on Face the Nation, he claimed the original investigation "was snuffed out before it even began" and that "the fatal mistake the Warren Commission made was to not use its own investigators, but instead to rely on the CIA and FBI personnel, which played directly into the hands of senior intelligence officials who directed the cover-up." ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Schweiker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Schweiker
A couple of side notes...
1) It's very powerful watching Senator Schweiker's smackdown of the Warren Commission.
2) You will never see a Republican like Richard Schweiker again. The Koch Bros & Co. would never allow it.
November 11, 2013
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021904646#post35
BTW Alex Cox is an interesting character in his own right...
Alex Cox with a nice Richard Case Nagell summary (video)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021904646#post35
BTW Alex Cox is an interesting character in his own right...
the 1987 movie, Walker - earned Cox spot on US blacklist
Walker is a 1987 Acid Western film directed by Alex Cox. The film based on the life story of William Walker (played by Ed Harris), the American filibuster who invaded Mexico in the 1850s and made himself President of Nicaragua shortly thereafter. It was written by Rudy Wurlitzer and scored by Joe Strummer, who also plays a small role as a member of Walker's army. The film, released in 1987 and which by the end is intentionally full of anachronisms such as helicopters, Zippo lighters, automatic rifles, and a car passing a horse carriage, was made in Nicaragua during the American-sponsored Contra War.
< ... >
Director Alex Cox was never employed again by a major Hollywood studio, and his subsequent films have received only limited distribution in the United States. In a 2008 interview with The A.V. Club, Cox said, "Distribution is controlled by the studios, and I've been on the blacklist of the studios for the last 20 years... The last movie I was asked to direct was The Running Man which was actually quite a good film, I thought. I would have liked to have done The Running Man. It was just that Walker happened at the same time."
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=30321

Walker is a 1987 Acid Western film directed by Alex Cox. The film based on the life story of William Walker (played by Ed Harris), the American filibuster who invaded Mexico in the 1850s and made himself President of Nicaragua shortly thereafter. It was written by Rudy Wurlitzer and scored by Joe Strummer, who also plays a small role as a member of Walker's army. The film, released in 1987 and which by the end is intentionally full of anachronisms such as helicopters, Zippo lighters, automatic rifles, and a car passing a horse carriage, was made in Nicaragua during the American-sponsored Contra War.
< ... >
Director Alex Cox was never employed again by a major Hollywood studio, and his subsequent films have received only limited distribution in the United States. In a 2008 interview with The A.V. Club, Cox said, "Distribution is controlled by the studios, and I've been on the blacklist of the studios for the last 20 years... The last movie I was asked to direct was The Running Man which was actually quite a good film, I thought. I would have liked to have done The Running Man. It was just that Walker happened at the same time."
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=30321
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