Official Narrative Quotes
The George W. Bush administration became notorious for its deception of Congress, the Press and the public. In particular, the administration would develop elaborate scenarios of conditions in the world and develop military and foreign policy responses to them. Soon, it became clear that the scenario upon which the policy and action had been based, was inaccurate—a fantasy to begin with. There has been much debate whether the scenarios were deliberate lies to drum up political support for the administration or just errors of judgment based on bad intelligence. Snow, had to go out and maintain the scenarios even after it became clear that they had been fantasies.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. The main reason for the secrecy was that the FBI had made some serious blunders in tracking Oswald before the assassination, and failed to apprehend him when he was involved in another attempted assassination, and no one thought this negated the single assassin theory so J. Edgar Hoover was able to keep the Bureau’s incompetence secret. However, the CIA, even with the secrecy lied to the Commission to cover up their blunder in having hired Mafia organized crime figures to assassinate Fidel Castro. The attempts failed but Castro threatened to retaliate, and this possibility was never discussed by the Warren Commission as they did not have the information much less the public. Because of the secrecy, many people have been suspicious of the lone assassin conclusion that the commission had reached as they assumed venality rather than incompetence.
