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1) For those of you watching the Sessions interrogation, a little history. (cliff notes version: YOU WON'T LEARN ANYTHING)



2) From 1942 to 1946 the House and Senate held FIVE investigations into the "causes" of the surprise attack and defeat at Pearl Harbor.



Five.

3) They did not, and could not learn anything.



4) This was because witnesses could not, or would not, tell them anything.



5) Were the witnesses hiding something? Yes.

6) The important witnesses---those with something to actually say---were prohibited from revealing the existence of Operation MAGIC, our code breaking operations against the Japanese had already broken several secret codes & would in 1942 provide the basis for the Midway victory.

7) With the war still going on, MAGIC was (next to the a-bomb) our best kept secret. It allowed us to determine in some cases Japanese fleet locations or intent.



8) MAGIC saved thousands of lives.

9) When called to testify before Congress, those who held Magic clearance were reminded by the FBI or the Chief of Staff's office that they could in no way allude to or reference any knowledge gained from MAGIC or the existence of the program itself.

10) Witness after witness either lied, dodged, "forgot," or otherwise dissembled because they were prohibited from telling the truth by a greater good.

11) In 1945, as the war in Europe was ending, Gen. Marshall brought in a Major Clausen and read him into MAGIC. He wanted him to conduct a full investigation into Pearl Harbor, but this time WITH testimony from those who had MAGIC clearance.

12) Marshall took the unprecedented step of providing Clausen with a pouch containing several MAGIC documents! Clausen was to carry this pouch on his chest like a gas mask.



But Clausen was told something else.

13) Inside the pouch is a small incendiary bomb. "If you are even REMOTELY in danger of falling into enemy hands, you are to detonate that bomb. Unfortunately, you'll go along with the MAGIC documents."

14) Clausen met with witnesses, showing him the MAGIC documents & the letter from Marshall and got the full story. To be brief, his information showed the commanders at Pearl were exceptionally incompetent.

15) It was a conclusion 180 degrees opposite that of Congress, which tried to blame FDR.



I'm no FDR fan, but he was unfairly charged, as Clausen & Lee show in their book "Pearl Harbor: Final Judgment."

16) The point is not whether or not you think FDR "knew" but that FIVE congressional committees investigating this COULD NOT KNOW anything because witnesses were prohibited from discussing key information.

17) Jump ahead to 2017 and Sessions' testimony. This is an open hearing. There will be no classified material discussed, as the Congressmen wanted.



18) This is about them showboating and grandstanding. Not about learning anything. If they wanted that, it would have been closed.

18) Whatever Sessions/Mulehead/or anyone else is doing of significance, NO ONE will hear about it in an open session of Congress.



19) And no congressman or staffer can leak classified material without being brought up on charges . . . even today.

19) So whatever you think of Sessions or Mulehead, there can be no real information provided today.

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