US Government officials have a long and storied history of lying to us:
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Roswell?
Roswell Daily Record July 8, 1947:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswel...July8,1947.jpg
Wikipedia - Roswell Incident:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident
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On July 8, 1947, Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that they had recovered a "flying disc". The Army quickly retracted the statement and said instead that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon.[1]
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After Roswell the US Government spent the next seven decades denying the existence of UFOs.
Until April 2020 when The Pentagon declassified three UFO videos taken by US Navy pilots:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/28/pent...vy-pilots.html
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Gulf of Tonkin an excuse for war in Vietnam?
US Naval Institute | By Lieutenant Commander Pat Paterson, U.S. Navy | Feb 2008
The Truth About Tonkin:
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval...h-about-tonkin
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Back on board the Ticonderoga, Commander Stockdale had been ordered to prepare to launch an air strike against the North Vietnamese targets for their "attacks" of the previous evening. Unlike Captain Herrick, Stockdale had no doubt about what had happened: "We were about to launch a war under false pretenses, in the face of the on-scene military commander's advice to the contrary."19 Despite his reservations, Stockdale led a strike of 18 aircraft against an oil storage facility at Vinh, located just inland of where the alleged attacks on the Maddox and Turner Joy had occurred. Although the raid was successful (the oil depot was completely destroyed and 33 of 35 vessels were hit), two American aircraft were shot down; one pilot was killed and the second captured.20
On 7 August, Congress, with near unanimity, approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which President Johnson signed into law three days later. Requested by Johnson, the resolution authorized the chief executive to "take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression." No approval or oversight of military force was required by Congress, essentially eliminating the system of checks and balances so fundamental to the U.S. Constitution. On hearing of the authorization's passage by both houses of Congress, the delighted President remarked that the resolution "was like Grandma's nightshirt. It covers everything."21
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WMDs?
David Usborne | Friday 30 May 2003
WMD just a convenient excuse for war, admits Wolfowitz:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...tz-106754.html
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The Bush administration focused on alleged weapons of mass destruction as the primary justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force because it was politically convenient, a top-level official at the Pentagon has acknowledged.
The extraordinary admission comes in an interview with Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Defence Secretary, in the July issue of the magazine Vanity Fair.
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"For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on," Mr Wolfowitz tells the magazine.
The comments suggest that, even for the US administration, the logic that was presented for going to war may have been an empty shell. They come to light, moreover, just two days after Mr Wolfowitz's immediate boss, Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, conceded for the first time that the arms might never be found.
The failure to find a single example of the weapons that London and Washington said were inside Iraq only makes the embarrassment more acute. Voices are increasingly being raised in the US * and Britain * demanding an explanation for why nothing has been found.
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The Steele Dosier?
By Paul Farhi | November 12, 2021 at 12:28 p.m. EST
The Washington Post corrects, removes parts of two stories regarding the Steele dossier:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...69b_story.html
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The Post’s reassessment follows the indictment on Nov. 4 of Igor Danchenko, a Russian American analyst and researcher who helped Steele compile the dossier. Danchenko was arrested as part of an investigation conducted by attorney John Durham, the special counsel appointed by Trump’s attorney general William P. Barr to probe the origins and handling of the FBI’s inquiry into Trump’s alleged Russian connections.
Danchenko was indicted on charges that he repeatedly lied to the FBI about where and how he got information that he allegedly gave to Steele for the dossier. He pleaded not guilty in federal court this week.
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The Steele dossier was a basis for the FBI’s legal arguments for surveillance of Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser, during the 2016 campaign. A Justice Department inspector general later criticized the agency for failing to note doubts about the veracity of the information in its application for court approval of the surveillance.
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mRNA vaccines 'safe and effective?'
Data from Pfizer's own clinical trials reveal 24% higher overall deaths for vaccinnated cohorts than placebo cohorts:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/N...ws.aspx/317091
No doubt I left out more than a few.
My point?
US Government officials have a long and storied history of lying to us.
Can any of us really know if the CIA/FBI, etc. hid or told the truth to the members of the
Warren Commission?
When in doubt consider the source.
-jp
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