Hale Boggs - Warren Commission Member and Critic

"Over the postwar years, we have granted to the elite and secret police within our system vast new powers over the lives and liberties of the people. At the request of the trusted and respected heads of those forces, and their appeal to the necessities of national security, we have exempted those grants of power from due accounting and strict surveillance."

--House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, in a speech before Congress, 22 April 1971

"[FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover lied his eyes out to the [Warren] Commission – on Oswald, on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the gun, you name it."

--Hale Boggs, speaking to an aide, cited by Bernard Fensterwald, Coincidence or Conspiracy?

It is a myth that the Warren Commission was united in its conclusion that a lone assassin killed President John F. Kennedy. On the seven member Warren Commission, there were three dissenters: Senator Sherman Cooper, Senator Richard Russell, and Congressman Hale Boggs. As Dallas journalist Jim Marrs pointed out, "The most vocal critic among Commission members [was Hale Boggs]. Boggs became frustrated with the panel's total reliance on the FBI for information. Speaking of the 'single-bullet theory,' Boggs once commented, 'I had strong doubts about it.' On April 1, 1971, House Majority Leader Boggs delivered a blistering attack on [FBI Director] J. Edgar Hoover, charging that under his directorship the FBI had adopted 'the tactics of the Soviet Union and Hitler's Gestapo.' Boggs, who undoubtedly would have become Speaker of the House and a powerful ally in any reopening of the JFK assassination investigation, vanished on October 16, 1972, while on a military junket flight in Alaska. Despite a massive search, no trace of the airplane or of Boggs has ever been found."

"Several years after [Hale Bogg's] death in 1972, a colleague of his wife Lindy (who was elected to fill her late husband's seat in the Congress) recalled Mrs. Boggs remarking, 'Hale felt very, very torn during his work [on the Commission] ... he wished he had never been on it and wished he'd never signed it [the Warren Report].'"

--Bernard Fensterwald, Coincidence or Conspiracy?

Links:

The Right-Wing Shadow Government - Treason on the Right

Nixon, Watergate, and the JFK Assassination

Kennedy Curse or a Right-Wing Vendetta?

CIA Operative Gen. Ed Lansdale Photographed in Dealey Plaza

The Garrison Investigation

Jim Garrison--1967 Lecture (Audio)

Oliver Stone Answers Audience Questions

Arlen Specter and the Single Bullet Theory

The Intimidation of Dealey Plaza Witnesses

The Senator who Suspected a JFK Conspiracy

Lee Harvey Oswald — The Patsy

Did Militarists Sabotage Gary Power's U-2 Plane?

J. Edgar Hoover - Blackmailed by the Mob

Gerald Ford's Role in the JFK Assassination Cover-up

The Enemy Within - The Pentagon Plan to Terrorize U.S. Citizens and Blame Cuba

The Plane that Never Hit the Pentagon

Vice President Dick Cheney's Stand-Down Order on 9/11

Cheney's Proposal to Dress Up Navy Seals as Iranians and Shoot at Them

Did a Neocon Gang Send Anthrax Letters to Senators Daschle and Leahy to Intimidate Them and Thwart a Congressional Investigation of 9/11?

'October Surprise' Plane Crashes (Election Eve Terror)

Using Disaster Drills as a Cover to Stage False Flag Terror Attacks

CIA Assassin David Morales Photographed at the Ambassador Hotel

General Curtis LeMay - Demented Cold Warrior

The Pentagon's Fleecing of America

The October Surprise

The CIA School of Assassination at Fort Bragg

A Timeline of CIA Meddling in Latin America

Trickle Down Economics - The Big Con

"Body of Secrets" - Attack on the USS Liberty

CIA Infiltration and Manipulation of the Mass Media

CIA Instructions to Media Assets

Tapes Reveal Nixon Prolonged Vietnam War for Political Reasons

George H. W. Bush -- Was He Part of It?

Fonda was Right and Bush was Lying

Notable JFK Conspiracy Theorists: LBJ, Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover

The Reagan Years

Americans for Tax Fairness

Alternative Energy News

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." --John F. Kennedy

"Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate. Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, according to several commission sources. Staff members and some commissioners thought that e-mails and other evidence provided enough probable cause to believe that military and aviation officials violated the law by making false statements to Congress and to the commission." --Washington Post, 2 August 2006

"At some level of the government, at some point in time ... there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened [on 9/11]." --John Farmer, Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission and Attorney General of New Jersey

"I want to overthrow Saddam [Hussein]. Find me a way to do it." —President George W. Bush, speaking in the first National Security Council meeting of the Bush presidency on 30 January 2001, eight months before the World Trade Center attacks of 9/11, as told by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, TV documentary, "Why We Did It"

"They had a plan to go to war [with Iraq], and when 9/11 happened that's what they did; they went to war." —Senator Max Cleland, interview with Salon magazine, 21 November 2003

"As each day goes by, we learn that this government knew a whole lot more about these terrorists before Sept. 11 than it has ever admitted." —Senator Max Cleland,The New York Times, 26 October 2003

"If I had to narrow it down to one person ... I think my prime suspect [in the 9/11 attacks] would be Dick Cheney." --Dr. Robert Bowman, Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from Caltech, former U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, and Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the U.S. Air Force in the Ford and Carter administrations

"I asked [Senator Paul Wellstone] how his week had been. He said, 'it's been tough. Vice President Cheney called me in and told me to get on their bandwagon or there would be serious ramifications in Minnesota. 'And stop sticking your nose into 9/11; there are some rumors going around, but we are going to get to the bottom of this.' When Paul made this statement, there were about 10 military veterans standing around us, and he spoke to them about 9/11... 'There are so many things going on about 9/11 that just don’t make sense...' Wellstone knew 9/11 was staged. Wellstone was after 9/11." —Pat O’Reilly, Wellstone’s close friend, interviewed in the documentary, "Wellstone: They Killed Him"

Dick Cheney Confronted on His Stand-Down Order on 9/11

Crossing the Rubicon — Simplifying the Case Against Dick Cheney

Cheney's Proposal to Dress Up Navy Seals as Iranians and Shoot at Them







"Amazing, incredible, pick your word. For the third time today, it’s reminiscent of those pictures we’ve all seen too much on television before, where a building was deliberately destroyed by well placed dynamite to knock it down." —CBS News anchor Dan Rather, commenting on the collapse of Building 7 - September 11, 2001 at approximately 5:30pm EST

"I will begin by stating what we know to be a solid, incontrovertible, scientific fact. We know that it is strictly impossible for any building, much less steel columned buildings, to 'pancake' at free fall speed. Therefore, it is an incontrovertible fact that the official explanation of the collapse of the WTC buildings is false." --Paul C. Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President Ronald Reagan

"In the summer of 2000, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a neo-conservative think tank riddled with soon to be Bush administration officials and advisors, issued a document calling for the radical restructuring of U.S. government and military policies. It advocated the massive expansion of defense spending, the re-invasion of Iraq, the military and economic securing of Afghanistan and Central Asia, increased centralized power and funds for the CIA, FBI, and NSA, among a slew of other policies that would, in the near future, be enacted upon their ascension to power. In the same document, they cite a potential problem with their plan. Referring to the goals of transforming the U.S. and global power structure, the paper states that because of the American public's slant toward ideas of democracy and freedom, 'this process of transformation is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor.'" —http://www.911hardfacts.com

9/11 - Anatomy of a Great Deception

"Real patriots ask questions." --Carl Sagan