Well, it’s 50 years since the release of the Warren Report, in which a formerly well respected Supreme Court Justice stamped his name on the greatest whitewash in history (up to that point).
Of course, there might have been greater whitewashes but, if so, they remained whitewashed. For instance, I am convinced that the gunpowder plot was a false flag on the part of James I, partly just to make himself look like a tough guy, because Elizabeth I was a tough act to follow in the bad-ass department, partly to marginalize the Catholics, and partly to sell a lot of copies of his new bible, but I am the only person I’ve ever met who holds that particular opinion.
The 9/11 report is just as misleading as the Warren Report. Key players went uninterviewed. The explosions the firemen swear they heard were ignored. And very little attention was payed to building 7.
We can’t even find out what chemicals are used in fracking.
What we need, to combat this problem, is a permanent investigating committee. Letting the current president nominate the people whose job it’s going to be to investigate him, and maybe find out what happened, is absurd. It’s the old fox in the henhouse, it’s the inmates taking over the asylum. Make it a group of 12 and stagger their terms so that they don’t all get appointed by the same president, ever.
Then, next time there’s a disaster, they swing into action. With the power to interrogate anybody in sight.