[Ben Holmes]

Patrick C Wrote:

Chief Warren Wrote:Meetings where witnesses would be brought in would retard rather than help our investigation.

Yep, that is a very strange statement. I doubt however it is rooted in the notion that a conspiracy could have occurred, rather more the political atmosphere of the time.

Belin , in both his books and Specter in his, are adamant they were given the latitude to seek out a conspiracy. Belin was emphatic about that and he set out to find one. Except he could not find one.

As is normal with WCR Supporters, you didn't really address the point that was being made, so I'll make it again:
The following facts fit far better with the intention of doing a cover-up...

For at the first meeting of the Warren Commission, here's some of Chief Warren's statements:

1. He did not want the Commission to employ any of their own investigators.
   
2. He did not want the Commission to gather evidence. Instead he wished for them to rely on reports made by other agencies like the FBI and Secret Service.
   
3. He did not want their hearings to be public. He did not want to employ the power of subpoena.
   
4. Incredibly, he did not even want to call any witnesses. He wanted to rely on interviews done by other agencies.
   
5. He then made a very curious comment, "Meetings where witnesses would be brought in would retard rather than help our investigation.

I know that not a SINGLE believer will step up and defend these facts as the beginnings of a real investigation...

Note that Patrick failed to do what I said no believer will... Patrick cannot defend these actions & statements as the beginning of a real investigation. The Warren Commission was a political operation designed to quash any notion of a conspiracy... and they failed to succeed in doing so...

The HSCA admitted to a probable conspiracy, and pointed out a number of flaws in the Warren Commission's handling of the case ... but the HSCA simply doesn't exist to the WCR Supporters...

If it doesn't prove the WCR's theory - Lone Nutters don't want to hear it...