CIA

I am not really a conspiracy theorist. I really think most of the time people are too lazy and gossip too much to carry out a really complicated conspiracy. I am pretty inclined to believe the easiest, least convoluted explanations of things. Still, sometimes there are things that should make us suspicious.

BBC's Newsnight is running a Shane O'Sullivan broadcast that claims to show the presence of known CIA agents at the scene of the RFK assassination in Los Angeles at a time when the CIA had no domestic jurisdiction. The story, adding some circumstantial evidence, claims this shows a CIA link to the assassination. I am not so quick to jump to that conclusion. But it does raise an eyebrow:

The evidence was shown in a report by Shane O'Sullivan, broadcast on BBC Newsnight.

It reveals that the operatives and four unidentified associates were at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles in the moments before and after the shooting on 5 June, 1968.

The CIA had no domestic jurisdiction and some of the officers were based in South-East Asia at the time, with no reason to be in Los Angeles...

Three of these men have been positively identified as senior officers who worked together in 1963 at JMWAVE, the CIA's Miami base for its Secret War on Castro.

David Morales was Chief of Operations and once told friends:

"I was in Dallas when we got the son of a bitch and I was in Los Angeles when we got the little bastard."

So, as Bush continues to try and expand his anti-Muslim crusade, the CIA has concluded that Iran is NOT currently developing nukes. From Truthout:

Washington - A classifed draft CIA assessment has found no firm evidence of a secret drive by Iran to develop nuclear weapons, as alleged by the White House, a top US investigative reporter has said.

Seymour Hersh, writing in an article for the November 27 issue of the magazine The New Yorker released in advance, reported on whether the administration of Republican President George W. Bush was more, or less, inclined to attack Iran after Democrats won control of Congress last week...

Cheney said the White House would circumvent any legislative restrictions "and thus stop Congress from getting in its way," he said.

The Democratic victory unleashed a surge of calls for the Bush administration to begin direct talks with Iran.

But the administration's planning of a military option was made "far more complicated" in recent months by a highly classified draft assessment by the Central Intelligence Agency "challenging the White House's assumptions about how close Iran might be to building a nuclear bomb," he wrote.

"The CIA found no conclusive evidence, as yet, of a secret Iranian nuclear-weapons program running paallel to the civilian operations that Iran has declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency," Hersh wrote, adding the CIA had declined to comment on that story.