Greenwald: 4 points about the 1971 FBI break-in
http://utdocuments.blogspot.com.br/2014/01/4-points-about-1971-fbi-break-in.html?m=1The New York Times this morning has an extraordinary 13-minute video from a team of reporters including the independent journalist Jonathan Franklin, and an accompanying article by Mark Mazzetti, about the heroic anti-war activists who broke into an FBI field office in 1971 and took all of the documents they could get their hands on, and then sent those documents to newspapers, including the New York Times and Washington Post.
Some of those documents exposed J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO program, aimed at quashing internal political dissent through surveillance, infiltration and other tactics. Those revelations ultimately led to the creation of the Church Committee in the mid-1970s and various reforms. The background on the Church Committee's COINTELPRO findings and the "burglary" operation which exposed it is here.
With the statute of limitations elapsed on their "crimes", ones the FBI could never solve, the courageous perpetrators have now unveiled themselves. The NYT story is based on a new book by Post reporter Betsy Medsger and the forthcoming documentary 1971 (of which my journalistic partner, Laura Poitras, is an Exective Producer). There are four crucial points to note:
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These smart boys & girls (can't forget Laura Poitras) know exactly what they're doing. They keenly understand how mainstream corporo/gov owned media tactics work and are countering it.
Could not have said it better than you just succinctly and elegantly did.
for truth - delish!!! 
FBI was doing its COINTELPRO thing on one Lee Harvey Oswald:
The JFK connection: Why COINTELPRO still matters
Jefferson Morley
JFKfacts.org, Jan. 7, 2014
EXCERPT...
Remember that COINTELPRO is short for “Counterintelligence Program.”
Remember that the Counterintelligence Staff, headed by James Angleton, was the component of the CIA that tracked Lee Harvey Oswald closely from October 1959 to November 1963.
As historian David Kaiser revealed in his deeply researched book “The Road to Dallas,” COINTELPRO targeted the pro-Castro Fair Play for Cuba Committee for disruption and discrediting in the summer of 1963. At the time Lee Harvey Oswald was founding his own chapter of the FPCC in New Orleans — over the written objections of the FPCC’s leadership.
As Bill Simpich documents in his revelatory and important ebook, “State Secret,” the FBI and the CIA’s counterintelligence staff worked together on a program to discredit the FPCC 1963 throughout the fall of 1963.
Here’s the CIA’s Sept. 16, 1963 memo to the FBI about the operation to discredit the FPCC “in foreign countries.”
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=377132
The author of the memo, John Tilton, was a supervisor of George Joannides, the Miami-based undercover officer whose paid assets in the Cuban Student Directorate (DRE) publicized and denounced Oswald’s pro-Castro activities in New Orleans in August 1963.
Eleven days after Tilton wrote his memo, a man identifying himself as Lee Harvey Oswald appeared at the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City applying for a visa to travel to Cuba. He gave his self-made FPCC membership card as part of his visa application. Officials in the Cuban Embassy were suspicious of Oswald and rejected his application.
After JFK was killed, Joannides’s assets in the Cuban Student Directorate published the first JFK conspiracy theory linking Oswald to Castro. The group cited Oswald’s FPCC activities in New Orleans as evidence.
After Oswald was killed in police custody, the White House and the FBI moved to convince the public Oswald was the sole assassin.
At the CIA, Angleton killed John Whitten’s efforts to investigate Oswald’s Cuban contacts.
The wishes of the CIA and FBI came true. The FPCC disbanded on December 27, 1963, its name forever tainted by the linkage to the accused assassin.
As Simpich notes correctly, “Counterintelligence is the hidden heart of the story…”
And we first learned about COINTELPRO thanks to the people who came forward today.
CONTINUED...
http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/news/the-jfk-connection-why-cointelpro-still-matters/
Thanks, Uncle Joe!
if you think you can link me to that deranged woman's blog. (But I do invite others to go to it and bath in the seething and hissing that emits from Sibel Edmond's beak). Now I know why you think the way You do! 
And as far as my man Bernie- he can have this middle of the road opinion. That's fine- still love the hell outta him. But he might get more radical as time (and more revelations) goes by!
I never pass up one of your posts! 
Your still here defending the indefensible, so's I guess 'fail' on your 'fail'. 
Yes, I do love me some Ed- just like Dan does!
You mean this is about Ed?
Now that's a costume I'd pay good money for!
Excellent observation, btw.
From there, no one can force him to "face the music."
"Your protestations just get weaker and weaker swirling down the toilet bowl in ever decreasing circles."
I'm LMAO. Some have reduced the anti-domestic surveillance push to trying to create a hero out of a guy stuck in Russia.
I mean, he's Paul Revere and Ellsberg.
You know why this is perfect:
BLITZER: You wouldn't give him clemency, though, and let him off scot-free?
SANDERS: No. BLITZER: All right, Senator, thanks very much for joining us.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024292659
For "educating the people," he gets a chance to not "have to spend his entire remaining life abroad," but you know, he has no plan on coming back to "face the music."
So where does that leave him and his fans: Begging for clemency and trying to justify why he should stay in Russia.
It's all about Snowden, hero.
