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In reply to the discussion: Julian Assange: Wikileaks is 'Drowning in Material' [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)58. J Edgar Hoover is one who didn't tolerate dissent. Not me.
Here's what I think the FBI is capable of doing:
J. Edgar Hoover obstructed Justice in regards to the assassination of President Kennedy.
Special Agent Don Adams of the FBI deserved to be seen and heard by billions. The guy was the real deal, a brave agent who stepped forward. Among his assassination-connected work, FBI Special Agent Don Adams interviewed racist Joseph Adams Milteer, a guy an FBI informant had taped detailing a pre-Dallas plot in Miami.
He wrote a book on the experience:
http://adamsjfk.com/?page_id=30
Why Milteer matters:

Joseph Adams Milteer, the guy Adams was sent to interview, had outlined what would happen in Dallas before it happened. For some reason, Mr. Hoover "let him go."
Then, there's the Hosty note:
FBI Special Agent James HOSTY destroyed evidence: a ''threatening'' note from Oswald.
A couple of weeks before the assassination, Hosty paid a visit to Marina Oswald's residence at the home of Ruth Paine. Hosty was looking for Lee Harvey Oswald, who was not home. Oswald later found out about the visit and stopped by the Dallas FBI office and dropped off a note addressed to Hosty that threatened to "blow up the FBI building" in the words of the secretary who received the note in an unsealed envelope and read it.
Hosty and the FBI never admitted the note's existence until 1975 when the HSCA looked investigated the matter. Hosty said the note was not a threat and, therefore, not material to the case. Investigators believe Dallas SAC Gordon Shanklin ordered the note destroyed on direct orders from FBI Director J Edgar Hoover, a couple of hours after Oswald's own assassination while in police custody.
The note was never mentioned to the Warren Commission.
Destroying evidence is obstruction of justice.
Then, there's the evidence of various threats against President Kennedy that Hoover ignored. Author and former NYT reporter Edwin Black wrote about the Chicago Plot, the same M.O. as Dallas, ambush, high-power rifles, high-rise, and one patsy by the name of Thomas Arthur Vallee, a USMC veteran from a U-2 base in Japan. The plot was broken up by the Secret Service in Chicago. Not that they wanted to, they sort of had to when the local cops got a call from a landlady with the guns, passports, maps and "parade route" in Highlighter still on the bed.
Very important read in PDF:
http://www.thechicagoplot.com/The%20Chicago%20Plot.pdf
You are right, jeff47. "GroupThink" is not the best way of phrasing it. I was asked one thing and now I have to answer for another. So, "Tag Team" is a better term.
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Exactly. It's only the Alex Jones / Wayne Madsen tin-foil loons of the world...
SidDithers
Jul 2015
#9
Nice smear, especially considering how FBI was targeting Occupy Wall Street for assassination.
Octafish
Jul 2015
#11
Truth hurts the tiny group here that TEE HEE giggles about the BFEE and their warmongering ways.
Rex
Jul 2015
#56
Thanks, Rex! For some reason, what's on DU isn't on ABCNNBCBSFakeNoiseNutworks.
Octafish
Jul 2015
#59
Notice that too did you? Also do you notice how they seem to know so much about the Foxnews noise
Rex
Jul 2015
#60
It was the implication of what you wrote. That the government would be pulling the trigger.
jeff47
Jul 2015
#33
11. Nice smear, especially considering how FBI was targeting Occupy Wall Street for assassination."
NuclearDem
Jul 2015
#42
Where exactly do you get this interpretation that the FBI was planning to kill OWS leaders?
NuclearDem
Jul 2015
#35
Of course, that must be in the redacted portion, as it's not in what readers can see.
Octafish
Jul 2015
#49