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Apparently there was similar jockeying over the positioning of the Scott Shane story. In some east coast editions it ran on page eleven, with a trivializing introductory squib, Food for Conspiracy Theorists. In the California edition, headlined C.I.A. Is Still Cagey About Oswald Mystery, it was on page one above the fold.
One can assume that the Times decision to run the story was a momentous one not made casually. The same can probably be said of another recent remarkable editorial decision, to publish Tom Friedmans op-ed on September 29 about the very dangerous climate now in America, the same kind of climate here that existed in Israel on the eve of the Rabin assassination.
Friedman did not mention JFK at all, and his most specific reference was to a recent poll on Facebook asking respondents, Should Obama be killed? [3] Four days later the Wall Street Journal expressed similar concern, adding to the poll on Facebook asking whether the president should be assassinated, a column on a conservative Web site suggesting a military coup is in the works. [4]
Friedmans column broke a code of silence about the threats to Obama that had been in place ever since two redneck white supremacists (Shawn Adolf and Tharin Gartrell) were arrested in August 2008 for a plot to assassinate Obama with scoped bolt-action rifles. Andrew Gumbels story about them ran in the London Independent on November 16, 2008; of the fifteen related news stories in Lexis Nexis, only one, a brief one, is from a U.S. paper.
It is possible to take at face value the concern expressed by Friedman in his column. The Boston Globe, a New York Times affiliate, reported on October 18 that The unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama, a rise in racist hate groups, and a new wave of antigovernment fervor threaten to overwhelm the US Secret Service. [5]
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But there may have been a higher level of concern in the normally pro-war Wall Street Journals reference to a military coup. Such talk on a conservative web site is hardly newsworthy. More alarming is the report by Robert Dreyfuss in the October 29 Rolling Stone that Obama is currently facing an ultimatum from the Pentagon and Joint Chiefs: either provide General McChrystal with the 40,000 additional troops he has publicly demanded, or face a full-scale mutiny by his generalsThe president, it seems, is battling two insurgencies: one in Afghanistan and one cooked up by his own generals. [6]
One can only guess at what led the New York Times to publish a story about CIA obstinacy over documents about the JFK assassination. One explanation would be the similarities between the painful choices that Obama now faces in Afghanistan to escalate, maintain a losing status quo, or begin to withdraw and the same equally painful choices that Kennedy in 1963 faced in Vietnam. [7] More and more books in recent years have asked if some disgruntled hawks in the CIA and Pentagon did not participate in the assassination which led to a wider Vietnam War. [8]
Six weeks before Kennedys murder, the Washington News published an extraordinary attack on the CIAs bureaucratic arrogance and
obstinate disregard of orders If the United States ever experiences a `Seven Days in May it will come from the CIA one U.S. official commented caustically. (Seven Days in May is a fictional account of an attempted military coup to take over the U.S. Government.) [9]
The story was actually a misleading one, but it was a symptom of the high-level rifts and infighting that were becoming explosive over Vietnam inside the Kennedy administration. The New York Times story about the CIA on October 17 can also be seen as a symptom of rifts and infighting. One must hope that the country has matured enough since 1963 to avoid a similarly bloody denouement.
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The JFK Assassination: New York Times Acknowledges CIA Deceptions
October 25, 2009
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The JFK Assassination: New York Times Acknowledges CIA Deceptions
Posted By admin On October 22, 2009 @ 4:00 am In Commentary, Featured Stories | 92 Comments
Prof. Peter Dale Scott
Global Research [1]
Thursday, Oct 22nd, 2009
The New York Times, on October 17, published a page-one story by Scott Shane about the CIAs defiance of a court order to release documents pertaining to the John F. Kennedy assassination, in its so-called Joannides file. George Joannides was the CIA case officer for a Cuban exile group that made headlines in 1963 by its public engagements with Lee Harvey Oswald, just a few weeks before Oswald allegedly killed Kennedy. For over six years a former Washington Post reporter, Jefferson Morley, has been suing the CIA for the release of these documents. [1]
Sometimes the way that a news item is reported can be more newsworthy than the item itself. A notorious example was the 1971 publication of the Pentagon Papers (documents far too detailed for most people to read) on the front page of the New York Times.
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