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A former attorney general remembers the bugging of Martin Luther King Jr.
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| 01/6/06
| Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
Posted on 02/08/2006 4:48:14 AM PST by pjsbro
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A former Kennedy aide admits that MLK's phones were tapped for political reasons.
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posted on
02/08/2006 4:48:17 AM PST
by
pjsbro
To: pjsbro
JFK and RFK were behind the wiretappers!!!
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posted on
02/08/2006 4:49:38 AM PST
by
tkathy
(Ban the headscarf (http://bloodlesslinchpinsofislamicterrorism.blogspot.com))
To: tkathy
Here's the money quote:
When Hoover asked for the wiretaps, Bobby consulted me (I was then his deputy) and Burke Marshall, head of the Civil Rights Division. Both of us agreed to the tap because we believed a refusal would lend credence to the allegation of communist influence, while permitting the tap, we hoped, would demonstrate the contrary.
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posted on
02/08/2006 4:51:54 AM PST
by
pjsbro
To: pjsbro
Yes, it would lend credence because there WAS communist influence. King had -- naively, in my opinion -- made Levison his close advisor. There was reason to investigate.
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posted on
02/08/2006 4:56:14 AM PST
by
joylyn
To: pjsbro
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posted on
02/08/2006 4:57:59 AM PST
by
satchmodog9
(Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
To: satchmodog9
And they had to walk 12 miles to school in the snow. It was uphill both ways.
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posted on
02/08/2006 5:01:05 AM PST
by
auboy
To: pjsbro
Somebody check and see if Katzenbach has managed to auger himself into the ground with his spinning.
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posted on
02/08/2006 5:02:26 AM PST
by
Bahbah
(An admitted Snow Flake and a member of Sam's Club)
To: joylyn
That's not what Katzenbach said. He said RFK agreed to the tap because refusing the tap would
lend credence to the allegation of communist influence.
In other words, the tap was approved because if they didn't tap MLK, people (i.e., voters) would think that Kennedy was soft on communists.
That is purely political.
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posted on
02/08/2006 5:06:53 AM PST
by
pjsbro
To: pjsbro
Old Nick tries to whitewash the Kennedy involvement and lay it all on Hoover's doorstep.
It will only wash with those to young to remember.
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posted on
02/08/2006 5:08:38 AM PST
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: tkathy
Johnson replaced this guy with Ramsey Clark ....to moderate the Kennedy influence.
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posted on
02/08/2006 5:10:52 AM PST
by
Roamin53
(World War III started on Bill Clinton's watch....he just wasn't sure which side he was on!)
To: Roamin53
There is no telling what this fool Clark did or is still doing today to destroy this country.
Current and former Democrat administration leaders are making me have feeling's of dislike that I really do not want to have, Thank goodness that I have always had a below normal BP.
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posted on
02/08/2006 5:17:25 AM PST
by
Coldwater Creek
("Over there, over there, We won't be back 'til it's over Over there.")
To: metesky
It will only wash with those too young to rememberThey may be too young to remember, but old enough to demand to know the truth.
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posted on
02/08/2006 5:17:30 AM PST
by
pjsbro
To: pjsbro
I flew to President Johnson's Texas ranch and asked him to help put a stop to it. I think that he did, but such was Hoover's power I cannot be sure that even the president had the courage to do so. LBJ sure had enough guts to tell Hoover to wiretap Barry Goldwater and 4 years later Richard Nixon.
And I don't buy the crap the Bobby Kennedy was squmeish about tapping King. Bobby Kennedy was a first class prick and would play any dirty trick if it could help him. He was not the "Saint Bobby" the mainstream created.
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posted on
02/08/2006 5:21:51 AM PST
by
Ditto
( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
To: mariabush
Ramsey Clark as Attorney General and then in other capacities for Jimmy Carter gives us a true look at the nature of the enemy....wacko---sure, but still accepted by the mainstream liberal demmies from Carter to Kerry.
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posted on
02/08/2006 5:25:35 AM PST
by
Roamin53
(World War III started on Bill Clinton's watch....he just wasn't sure which side he was on!)
To: Roamin53
I've read that LBJ used to call Hoover, who shared raw data about sone people w/LBJ, and they laughed together over the "evidence".
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posted on
02/08/2006 5:27:00 AM PST
by
Carolinamom
(I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves. ---Ronald Reagan)
To: Ditto
Bobby Kennedy used the IRS to attack his political enemies list as well. Living in Mass years ago, I met several of his victims.
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posted on
02/08/2006 5:28:02 AM PST
by
Roamin53
(World War III started on Bill Clinton's watch....he just wasn't sure which side he was on!)
To: Carolinamom
"I've read that LBJ used to call Hoover, who shared raw data about sone people w/LBJ, and they laughed together over the "evidence"."
Sounds just like "PIAPS", doesn't it?
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posted on
02/08/2006 5:33:08 AM PST
by
JLGALT
(Get ready - Lock and Load!)
To: pjsbro
Katzenbach was a fool in the 60's, and he still is. I thought folks were suppossed to get smarter as they aged, but in his case the opposite occured.
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posted on
02/08/2006 5:33:12 AM PST
by
geezerwheezer
(get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
To: pjsbro
Even the peaceful civil rights movement - led by MLK - was somewhat disappointed with the Kennedy's, especially John, I believe, and the Kennedy's lukewarm "support" of the movement, until the latter months of JFK's life. JFK was a political animal first, and through much of his presidency, he put practicality before conviction when it came to civil rights. Actually, there probably was little conviction on his part until the last few months.....The wiretaps, and it's apparent in what Katzenback wrote, continued into the Johnson (democrat) administration, apparently with the support of at least some in the administration.......Katzenbach writes in the last paragraph of how there has been blood shed to protect freedom. How true. There will likely be much more blood shed if the wacky left succeeds in hamstringing Bush of his legal means to do what he can to monitor people wanting to kill us.
To: line drive to right
Yeah amazing Bush bashing at Coretta King's funeral...Carter made a purely political attack on Bush wiretapping for national security reasons while Kennedys tapped MLK for political reasons and no one batted an eyelash...
Simply amazing...
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posted on
02/08/2006 5:55:37 AM PST
by
pjsbro
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