Yeah, and then release everything the CIA has on 9/11 being an inside job.

I agree with Bleeb and Truthseeker. If there's anything behind held back about the Kennedy hit, then let's have it.

As the world mourned, NSA continued to eavesdrop. Immediately after the assassination, NSA initiated a large-scale manual and computer review of all available signals intelligence information, including all traffic between the United States and Cuba. At the time, NSA was intercepting about 1,000 messages a day worldwide. Suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's name was entered into the computer search. A short time later, additional names provided by the FBI from Oswald's address book were added. At the same time, between twenty-five and fifty analysts manually reviewed all traffic between Cuba and New Orleans and Cuba and Dallas, and some traffic between Cuba and Russia.

Fifteen hundred miles to the south, Navy intercept operators, monitoring both Cuban and "Soviet Forces Cuba" communications, listened in as Cuban military forces were placed on high alert. "A state of alert is ordered for all personnel," said the intercepted message. "Be ready to repel aggression." A message intercepted from the Polish embassy in Havana indicated that "military units are being relocated" and a new military draft was called. Intercepts flooded in from other listening posts. Mexico, Venezuela, and Colombia also suddenly went on alert. One foreign ambassador in Havana cabled home a report of a large movement of troops, adding a note about Castro: "I got the immediate impression that on this occasion he was frightened, if not terrified."

From early intercepts of Cuban diplomatic communications, it was clear that, far from being involved, Castro's people were as mystified by the assassination as the rest of the world. "The assassination of Kennedy," said one message from Havana to its embassy in Mexico City, "was a provocation against world peace, perfectly and thoroughly planned by the most reactionary sectors of the United States." An intercept of a message from Brazil's ambassador to Cuba back to his Foreign Office indicated that Cuban officials "were unanimous in believing that any other president would be 'even worse'" than Kennedy.

Bamford, James. 2002. Body of secrets: anatomy of the ultra-secret National Security Agency. New York: Anchor Books. pp 118,119

Is it lame to you that an impostor impersonated Oswald in Mexico City in September/October 1963.

Is it lame to you that autopsy photographer John Stringer said his pictures were developed in Ektachrome film while the National Archives pictures use ANSCO film?

Is it lame to you that while autopsy doctor Finck said in 1965 that he examined Kennedy's brain after November 29, doctors Humes and Boswell place the date at Monday, November 25? Have you read the Blumberg report? Do people have two brains?

In the board's effort to expand and clarify the record, details surfaced suggesting that two brain examinations may have been conducted at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., raising questions about the authenticity of the brain examined.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05E1DA113EF933A25752C1A96E958260

Is that lame?

The mortician who embalmed Kennedy, Thomas Robinson, and many others, described a fist-sized wound to the back of Kennedy's head. Is that lame?

The cameras stationed outside the CIA Mexico City should have taken automatic pictures of Oswald during his visit there, but such pictures have never appeared. Is that lame?

It's not lame, but what do you think the chances are that Obama will waste one iota of energy trying to force CIA documents on the JFK assasination to light?

How about documenting more recent abominations like rendition, torture, etc.?

When I was little, I liked history, especially the history of the ancient world. Egypt's King Tut always interested me, and everyone, including many Egyptologists, believed that there was a massive conspiracy to have him murdered, owing to the known inability to turn his head and the fluid shown in the back of his head. Some people would say, "is that lame?".

Yes. Yes it is. National Geographic had the body subjected to a CT scan. The fluid was the fault of a lazy embalmer, and the spine may or may not have been deformed in his life. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0506/feature1/text2.html
People see patterns where they do not exist, but more importantly, they fear what they do not understand. Lee Harvey Oswald's motives are hard to fathom, especially to those who loved Kennedy, so it must be something else, more sinister. It's easy to blame the CIA, a group we progressives have never liked, for the plot. It's also, in my mind, absurd.

What really irritates me is that the government is hired by the people and yet refuses to inform the people what they have done while employed by the people. We have a right to everything, IMHO. We paid them to do the work, now we are entitled to know what work they did.

IN some way I don't entirely understand, Obama's election feels to me to be finally putting closure to the vast, stinking, festering psychic sore that stems from the assassinations, Vietnam and the times since.

I don't believe the JFK assassination truth is the most important thing we can address right now, but speaking merely as one who lived through '63 and cannot let it go entirely, it is important nonetheless.

I look at it this way: Let's see ALL the facts. It's been long enough. If the facts are fully flushed out into the open and they don't reveal a conspiracy or -- most likely -- a fuckup of colossal proportions by the CIA, FBI, Secret Service, or some other agency, then fine. Or maybe we'll find out that some dark and murderous forces unleashed by Bobby Kennedy's efforts to whack Fidel somehow rebounded to kill his brother in the kind of Greek tragic twist that he would have been familiar with.

Or, maybe, Lee Harvey really did it all by his own, crazed, genius-marksman self.

We at least will know.

If the facts do show a mob connection, or a Cuban connection, or -- most likely, IMHO -- a combination of mob and borderline right-wing Dallas millionaires and KKK sympathizers who wanted to get rid of the Papist and keep us in Vietnam so they could make more money, then we need to know that, too. We need to know so that we will understand how the psychotic twists and turns that we've been subjected to from Vietnam on are their fault, and we need to plough the earth their graves are in and sow the land and everything they ever touched, and that their children and grandchildren have, with so much salt that nothing associated with them will ever live again.

It's a beginning, anyway.

We need to know the truth, whatever it is.

Here's the Bill Moyers documentary "Buying the War"
about the media conspiracy to sell us the war:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html