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Secret John Lennon Files Released By FBI
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| December 20, 2006
| AP
Posted on 12/20/2006 5:52:03 AM PST by ShadowDancer
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To: ShadowDancer
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posted on
12/20/2006 5:53:04 AM PST
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: raybbr
How very profound. Thank you.
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posted on
12/20/2006 5:53:44 AM PST
by
ShadowDancer
(No autopsy, no foul.)
To: ShadowDancer
I don't understand why the government insisted on keeping this secret for so long. If the Lennon surveillance didn't amount to much, why not just give the author the files when he first asked for them?
To: ShadowDancer
The FBI had unsuccessfully argued that an unnamed foreign government secretly provided the information, and releasing the documents could lead to diplomatic, political or economic retaliation against the United States. Geez, why not just say "the dog ate the files"? It wouldn't be any more absurd, and at least they'd get points for having a sense of humor about the whole embarassment.
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posted on
12/20/2006 5:57:27 AM PST
by
steve-b
(It's hard to be religious when certain people don't get struck by lightning.)
To: Hemingway's Ghost
Sometimes bureaucrats just screw with you because they can.
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posted on
12/20/2006 5:58:02 AM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
To: ShadowDancer
Saw a piece on Lennon's struggle with the INS recently.Lennon claimed repeatedly that they wanted to stay in the US so that they could look for Yoko's daughter who,it was claimed,had been "kidnapped" by her father.
But they got caught at least once admitting that they wanted to stay because New York was *the* place to be for creative people like themselves.
If Lennon had abided by the INS's decisions,he'd still be alive today.
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posted on
12/20/2006 5:58:35 AM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
To: raybbr
So what? And might I add who cares?
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posted on
12/20/2006 5:59:04 AM PST
by
Doofer
To: ShadowDancer
How very profound. Thank you.No. Really. Who cares? This is meaningless in the scheme of things. I certainly don't. Why do you?
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posted on
12/20/2006 5:59:05 AM PST
by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: ShadowDancer
We have so many "important" issues to take care of dontcha know.
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posted on
12/20/2006 5:59:16 AM PST
by
unixfox
(The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
To: ShadowDancer
So he really WAS just a washed-up dopehead hippie?
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posted on
12/20/2006 6:00:09 AM PST
by
atomicpossum
(Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
To: Hemingway's Ghost
To: Farmer Dean
Sometimes bureaucrats just screw with you because they can. That's what it is, I'm afraid. I wonder how much this cost the petitioner and the government in legal fees, or just plain "time"?
To: ShadowDancer
But is Paul dead or isn't he?
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posted on
12/20/2006 6:00:57 AM PST
by
Thane_Banquo
("Give a man a fish, make him a Democrat. Teach a man to fish, make him a Republican.")
To: ShadowDancer
Just a Dork married to one of the ugliest women in the world.
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posted on
12/20/2006 6:02:09 AM PST
by
sgtbono2002
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: atomicpossum
So he really WAS just a washed-up dopehead hippie?
Take that back!...hippies have nothing to do with washing...
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posted on
12/20/2006 6:02:16 AM PST
by
Zeppelin
(Keep on FReepin' on...)
To: Thane_Banquo
But is Paul dead or isn't he? Here's another clue for you all:
The walrus was Paul.
To: raybbr
At a minimum its an example of what government-including ours-is all about and thats power.If they do this with something so ridiculously insignificant, what are they doing with the important stuff?
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posted on
12/20/2006 6:03:46 AM PST
by
John W
To: raybbr
This is meaningless in the scheme of thingsSo are you and yet, here you still are.
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posted on
12/20/2006 6:03:54 AM PST
by
ShadowDancer
(No autopsy, no foul.)
To: Hemingway's Ghost
I don't understand why the government insisted on keeping this secret for so long. If the Lennon surveillance didn't amount to much, why not just give the author the files when he first asked for them? The FBI doesn't want us to forget who's in charge.
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posted on
12/20/2006 6:04:20 AM PST
by
Oberon
(What does it take to make government shrink?)
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