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These documents show the lengths to which the government was trying to cover up the truth," said the scientist's son, Eric Olson, who gave them to the San Jose Mercury News. "For 22 years there was a coverup. And then, under the guise of revealing everything, there was a new coverup."

So the claim is that Cheney and Rumsfeld were involved in a cover-up two decades ago that took place under a Republican president (ok, ok . . . I know Ford wasn't really a Republican, he just played one at the polls). Why does the son wait until another Republican president is in place to raise this issue?

Why didn't he get this done during the Clinton administration? The dems would have been more than happy to open any file that would discredit a Republican, and the son could have had access to whatever he wanted.

Eric Olson has contended for years that his father was murdered to cover up his research for the CIA.

So why is this making news at this late date?

Eric Olson says that a former colleague and friend of his father's contacted him last year and described some of the closely guarded work his father conducted.

So the "friend and colleague" was unaware of Eric's contention until last year?

Must be a slow news year in Milwaukee.

Only recently Eric Olson obtained files from a University of California-Davis history professor that showed White House officials had intentionally withheld details of Frank Olson's death from the family.

The article does not say exactly when the new documents were obtained (found). It's likely that a story of this nature only has legs now, when the media has opportunity to criticize public figures. This was also printed (online) in the Mercury News on the 8th.