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From the Radio Free Michigan archives
ftp://141.209.3.26/pub/patriot
If you have any other files you'd like to contribute, e-mail them to
bj496@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu.
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HAVE WE EVER LIED TO YOU BEFORE ?
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Clinton's out-of-work egghead buddies get thier noses in the
trough and have a mandate to look for the truth, in the hands of
private citizens for years, and "dispel notions" of deciet.
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WASHINGTON - Hoping to DISPEL notions that the GOVERNMENT is
CONCEALING information about President Kennedy's assassination, an
independent panel is gearing up to launch a NATIONWIDE SEARCH for
records.
"We may DEBUNK certain CONSPIRACY THEORIES because the RECORDS
aren't there to support those theories, or we might CREATE NEW
POSSIBILITIES," said John Tunheim, Minnesota's chief deputy attorney
general and chairman of the Assassination Records Review Board.
"At least we will have gotten to the point where THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT IS NO LONGER HIDING information from the public," Tunheim
said in a recent interview. "That's an issue of TRUST."
After a SLOW START, the board, with a 1995 budget of $2.15 million
and $2.4 million proposed for 1996, is beginning its work of seeking
out new materials related to the assassination and reviewing records that
government agencies would rather keep SECRET.
To UNCOVER materials that MIGHT be in the hands of PRIVATE CITIZENS,
it is counting on getting leads from experts, documents and a series of
public meetings. {ed- they want your PRIVATE records ? }
"I'm prepared to see anything," Tunheim said. "What I'm trying to do
is to ORGANIZE a very SYSTEMATIC and very DETAILED process of finding
every scrap of paper, every photograph, every film. Whatever exists."
Created by Congress in 1992 in the hopes of SQUELCHING any public
sense that the government has not divulged all it knows about the Nov.
22, 1963, assassination, the board was not appointed until President
Clinton took office. Five members, four from universities and Tunheim,
were confirmed by the Senate and sworn in in April 1994.
On Tuesday, the board is scheduled to hold its third public meeting,
in Washington. It met last November in Dallas, and plans a trip to
Boston to visit the John F. Kennedy Library later this month.
The board is considering trips to New Orleans, Miami and Los Angeles,
and is in the middle of defining an assassination record to help set
PARAMETERS for its work. { ED- parameters = fancy lingo for limits}
In 1992, RESPONDING to renewed public demands created by Oliver
Stone's film "JFK," which portrayed a plausable conspiracy, Congress
voted to compel the release of VIRTUALLY all assassination-related
documents to the National Archives.
So far, the Archives have indexed 120,000 records, with an additional
60,000 pending for addition to the data base. After a CIA file on Lee
Harvey Oswald was made public in 1993, 2,000 research REQUESTS were
logged in under three months.{ED-no mention of how many were filled}
One of the board's main jobs is to review records that government
agencies DO NOT WANT released, possibly for national security or
privacy concerns. It can DELAY release, but ONLY UNTIL 2017, the deadline
set by law. {ed- unless they have an EO for an extension}
Ultimately, the goal is to have all the records available to the
public at the archives, or possibly by computer.
"But our focus is really on the records themselves," Tunheim said,
"to get them available to the public so that they can read them and
TRY TO UNDERSTAND them for themselves."
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