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From the November-December 1999 issue (Vol. 7 No. 1) |
Wonders never cease in this case. Just when everyone was waiting for an event to keep the momentum moving forward now that the ARRB has closed shop, miraculously, it happened. Governor Jesse Ventura stepped up to the plate and took on the might of the Establishment to express his critical views of the Warren Commission to the public. He did it not once, but three times. And in no uncertain terms. Ventura is not as well versed on the subject as we wish he was, but still he is gutsy and pungent. He also refuses to walk away from a hot topic. We wish he improves a bit and keeps on chugging forward. It may recharge the political atmosphere in this country for some real reform and some real soul-searching on the scandals that have rocked our era.
We end our piece on the Ventura tornado with some more comments on Chris Matthews, the dreaded enemy of truth in the political arena, for the public to share. Well, in cyberspace there is the same problem: those who refuse to acknowledge the truth about political crimes of state. When Bill Davy’s wonderful book on Jim Garrison came out, we excerpted a chapter. Dave Reitzes did an online review of this book that was, without qualifications, a hatchet job in all respects. That didn’t hurt sales very much, if at all (the book is in its second printing). But we wanted to give Bill a platform in which to rebut the baseless attack. This shows a) just how good Davy’s work is, b) how underrated Garrison’s discoveries have been, and c) how overwhelming the new evidence is. We should also assert one more tenet: New Orleans is now, more than ever, exposed as a beehive of CIA, anti-Castro and anti-Kennedy activity.
Peter Kornbluh has not been one of our favorite authors on modern politics. Although Kornbluh has written much on Cold War themes and Kennedy-related issues e.g. Bay of Pigs, and the Missile Crisis, he has always seemed to us to be too much in the Noam Chomsky/Alex Cockburn camp on the Kennedy case. That is, a conspiracy like this could not happen and Kennedy was not worth the trouble to find out who killed him. But surprises, as I said, never cease. In a recent issue of a nationally distributed magazine, Kornbluh did a fine job of sorting through the files released by the Assassination Records and Review Board to take a look at an old story through a new lens. In this case, Kornbluh centers on Kennedy’s secret dealings with Castro to try and construct first, a channel of communication, and second, some kind of working détente. Kornbluh brings in some new players, like Gordon Chase, and elevates the value of people we knew about like Lisa Howard. It seems that this network was really working toward some new and important developments, with Kennedy and Castro leading the way before it imploded in November of 1963. And as with many other foreign policy forays, it never went back on track afterwards.
I take a long look at Edward Epstein, his relationship with his intelligence community and his shoddy performance on the JFK case, and ask the obvious question: was he ever one of us? Finally, in keeping with our doctrine of a related focus to other scandals, Lisa Pease exposes more of the horrendous FBI performance on Waco. We told you so.
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