David Talbot’s The Devil’s Chessboard is an excellent introduction to the ascendancy of the intelligence agencies and the deep state in America. From Talbot at thekennedybeacon.substack.com:
Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his run for president, the corporate media has trashed him as a “conspiracy monger” for—among other alleged falsehoods— spreading the charge that the CIA was behind the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and his father, Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Is this another example of Kennedy’s “craziness”? Um, no.
The official Warren Report version of President Kennedy’s violent death is quickly falling apart. Even The New York Times—the tail that wags the rest of the media industry’s dog—reported this weekend on former Secret Service agent Paul Landis, who at age 88 has called the magic bullet story, on which rests the entire 1964 Warren Report, a fabrication.
Landis was riding on the rear bumper of the Secret Service car that was following JFK’s limousine that day in Dallas, so close that he had to duck to avoid being splattered by the president’s skull fragments and brain matter. The explosive Times article—written by the ultimate Timesman, Chief White House correspondent Peter Baker—zipped to dozens of other news outlets around the world. (A better account of Landis’s late confession was published immediately after The New York Times report in Vanity Fair by lawyer and presidential historian, James Robenalt.
If the Times and the rest of the mainstream media keep digging, a lot of worms will wriggle out. Revelations about how the Kennedy brothers battled for peace and justice, and how they drew bitter political opposition. How their national security enemies plotted against them, and how these cold warriors covered up their crimes.
But investigating the Kennedy assassinations takes time and guts. Reporters facing tight deadlines—and censorious editors and publishers—are rarely if ever given enough freedom to thoroughly investigate complex and controversial subjects like this. So, too often, they pull the stories out of their asses. Lately, that means they pile on RFK Jr. and his “wacky” thinking. Because it’s easy; because their overseers encourage it.
