"That," Hardway wrote, "really sums up a lot of the problems that we had."
No News Is Good News?
In last month's conference, Blakey said the CIA's misconduct hurt the Assassination Records Review Board (AARB), which congress created to administer the 1992 JFK Act following public outrage triggered by Oliver Stone's movie, "JFK."
"I believe," Blakey continued, "that this rises to the level of probable violation of the law that prohibits impeding the due and proper inquiry of a committee of Congress....I no longer trust anything that the Agency [the CIA] has told us in regard to the assassination."
Official Washington mostly ignores these disputes, or treats them as trivia that will vanish in good time.
Neither President Obama, nor congress, nor the media have paid much attention. A rare exception in the mainstream media has been Boston Globe reporter Bryan Bender, who attended the AARC conference and published a column Oct. 15, "Answers sought on CIA role in '78 JFK probe."
To date, the CIA has not explained why it misled Robert Blakey, congress, the Warren Commission and the public.
At this point, only an informed public can assess whether the congressional probe was "The Last Investigation" -- or was a stepping stone to a new commitment to the truth about a president's murder that continues to taint American public life.
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