Has there EVER been a commission that really got to the bottom of an

[Sperk]

investigation? Or are they always whitewashes? I find if almost amusing that Smirk and Co. think that 9/11 will go away. The REAL investigation is being done all over this country by independent journalist, 9/11 family members, engineers, scientists, veterans etc. This will come out eventually. I'll take a page from Dean and say that no Washington investigation has the power to get to the truth of 9/11. WE HAVE THE POWER! And we're gonna use it.

www.911forthetruth.com

[xray s]

1. Watergate

That was a good one.

[Sperk]

2. Good God, how could I forget Watergate??? Although, I think

Nixon resigned before they got to the whole story.

[xray s]

3. Ford's pardon stopped Nixon from going to jail

but I think the whole stinking mess was pretty much exposed.

[maggrwaggr]

4. didn't Ken Starr get to the bottom of Whitewater

and found absolutely nothing?

Seems like he was pretty damn thorough looking for dirt.

[Minstrel Boy]

5. Maybe not even Watergate. It's funny how

so many of the Watergate culprits - Hunt, Sturgis and the Cubans - link up in the JFK assassination. And from Watergate's "smoking gun" tape of June 23 1972, it's clear Nixon feared what an investigation could reveal about Hunt:

"Of course, this is a, this is a Hunt, you will-that will uncover a lot of things. You open that scab there's a hell of a lot of things and that we just feel that it would be very detrimental to have this thing go any further. This involves these Cubans, Hunt, and a lot of hanky-panky that we have nothing to do with ourselves."

But that's not the most interesting revelation on the tape.

HR Haldeman, in his book The Ends of Power, cites several conversations where Nixon expressed concern about the Watergate affair becoming public knowledge and where this exposure might lead. Haldeman writes that he was puzzled when Nixon said, "'Tell Ehrlichman this whole group of Cubans (involved in the break-in) is tied to the Bay of Pigs.' After a pause I said, 'The Bay of Pigs? What does that have to do with this ?' But Nixon merely said, 'Ehrlichman will know what I mean,' and dropped the subject."

Later in the book, he reveals that he discovered that Nixon spoke in code about Kennedy's murder. He writes that Nixon's code for the assassination was "the Bay of Pigs."

Now here's Nixon on the tape:

"When you get in these people when you...get these people in, say: 'Look, the problem is that this will open the whole, the whole Bay of Pigs thing, and the President just feels that" ah, without going into the details... don't, don't lie to them to the extent to say there is no involvement, but just say this is sort of a comedy of errors, bizarre, without getting into it, 'the President believes that it is going to open the whole Bay of Pigs thing up again. And, ah because these people are plugging for, for keeps and that they should call the FBI in and say that we wish for the country, don't go any further into this case", period!"

See what's going on here?

Nixon is directing Haldeman to warn the FBI off probing Watergate because it could reopen the Kennedy assassination, and expects the FBI, because it has a vested interest in perpetuating the cover up, not to pry any further for the good of the country.

In a tape from May of 1972, which was released only in 2002, Nixon is heard to say of the Warren Commission, that "it was the greatest hoax that has ever been perpetuated."

[buckeye1]

6. both space shuttle disaster's.

And the Apollo disaster. Its hard to investigate things that might embarass the one party rule. But you knew that. Right?