If we could allow for "conspiracy theories" to also cover stuff like "the authorities covering stuff up, obfuscating the truth, and opposing the story of what actually happened coming to light by pushing forward narratives that were not accurate", then we'd find ourselves awash in conspiracies.
Better to narrow it down to the point where it only covers stuff like "covid wasn't a deliberate biological weapon released to harm America, it came from a wet market".
Everybody always thinks that their pet conspiracies are like MKULTRA or Operation Mockingbird but most of them are like the conspiracy theory that says that Covid came from a lab.
Man, no wonder they wanted to keep this under wraps!
2025-03-19 08:15:28
Be careful out there. I've seen a number of people saying "holy cow, I can't believe the files contain (risible claim)!" and a screenshot of a document without naming it.
I've seen a couple of these where it was a document released back in 2023.
One time I even saw a guy claim "document #(number here) says (risible claim)!" and a screenshot of the document and I went to the website and looked up that specific document and, wouldn't you know it, it was all about Cuba and whatnot and had nothing to do with (risible claim).
WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is ordering some of its lawyers who handle sensitive national-security matters to urgently review records from the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy that are due to be released on Tuesday, according to an email seen by Reuters.
Christopher Robinson, a National Security Division official, announced that "all" attorneys who work in the Operations Section of the Office of Intelligence are being ordered to review between 400 and 500 documents each, according to a Monday evening email seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
I honestly expected more news stories to be laughing gleefully about how Trump said something to the effect of "promises kept" about the JFK files release and... we still ain't got nothin'.
This is a major L, as the kids say, for Trump! The news should be positively crowing!
Part of holding power accountable is documenting what it says.
We are speeding toward 5PM EDT and, still, nothing's come out except for a bunch of humorous tweets showing typewritten letters allegedly from JFK announcing that he has evidence that will result in the arrest of Hillary Clinton.
I'd probably put the start of the modern version of paranoid thinking in American Politics smack dab in the middle of Prohibition when Hoover was denying the existence of the mafia and, indeed, denied its existence until the 1950s.
2025-03-18 13:16:50
Oh, there's also the option of *NOTHING* new dropping. A replay of the Epstein drop from a couple of weeks ago.
If *THAT* happens, well, we'll see the craziest folks turn on Trump the way they turned on Bondi.
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If we could allow for "conspiracy theories" to also cover stuff like "the authorities covering stuff up, obfuscating the truth, and opposing the story of what actually happened coming to light by pushing forward narratives that were not accurate", then we'd find ourselves awash in conspiracies.
Better to narrow it down to the point where it only covers stuff like "covid wasn't a deliberate biological weapon released to harm America, it came from a wet market".
Everybody always thinks that their pet conspiracies are like MKULTRA or Operation Mockingbird but most of them are like the conspiracy theory that says that Covid came from a lab.
Man, no wonder they wanted to keep this under wraps!
Be careful out there. I've seen a number of people saying "holy cow, I can't believe the files contain (risible claim)!" and a screenshot of a document without naming it.
I've seen a couple of these where it was a document released back in 2023.
One time I even saw a guy claim "document #(number here) says (risible claim)!" and a screenshot of the document and I went to the website and looked up that specific document and, wouldn't you know it, it was all about Cuba and whatnot and had nothing to do with (risible claim).
So check and double-check.
This one is interesting: President's Intelligence Checklist.
I've heard of these but never seen one before.
Oooh, the Yuri Nosenko file.
He's got a wikipedia page.
Project DTLAMPREY. Huh. Never heard of it. It was cover for a fund to help out non-communist teachers.
Dang, here they are. Time to open a few at random...
I guess that this is part of it: U.S. Justice Department orders national-security lawyers to review JFK documents
Jam tomorrow.
Jam yesterday.
I honestly expected more news stories to be laughing gleefully about how Trump said something to the effect of "promises kept" about the JFK files release and... we still ain't got nothin'.
This is a major L, as the kids say, for Trump! The news should be positively crowing!
You know, I'm beginning to suspect that there's stuff in there that they actively do not want to become public.
5:15 PM Eastern Daylight Saving Time.
No files.
Clank.
Part of holding power accountable is documenting what it says.
We are speeding toward 5PM EDT and, still, nothing's come out except for a bunch of humorous tweets showing typewritten letters allegedly from JFK announcing that he has evidence that will result in the arrest of Hillary Clinton.
I'd probably put the start of the modern version of paranoid thinking in American Politics smack dab in the middle of Prohibition when Hoover was denying the existence of the mafia and, indeed, denied its existence until the 1950s.
Oh, there's also the option of *NOTHING* new dropping. A replay of the Epstein drop from a couple of weeks ago.
If *THAT* happens, well, we'll see the craziest folks turn on Trump the way they turned on Bondi.