[Ben Holmes]

miker Wrote:The Department of Justice reversed the ruling of a probably conspiracy.

Cannot happen.

The DOJ is merely one small branch of the federal government. They are under the jurisdiction of Congress. They don't have the power to over-rule what the House & Senate concluded in their investigation.

miker Wrote:In 1988, the DOJ sent a letter to the House of Reps. In this letter the DOJ concluded that there was no evidence to support a conspiracy in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

To be precise, they stated: "Accordingly, the Department of Justice has concluded that no persuasive evidence can be identified to support the theory of a conspiracy in either the assassination of President Kennedy or the assassination of Dr. King"

This was based almost exclusively on their 'examination' of the acoustic evidence... The DOJ also claimed to have reviewed FBI reports, but such a claim can't be taken seriously, as the FBI info reveals quite a bit of evidence for conspiracy... as critics have pointed out time and time again.

As the DOJ conducted no 'investigation' worthy of the name, their opinion is just that...

miker Wrote:In the HSCA final report they (the HSCA) requested the DOJ to perform a few tasks and then report back to them (the HSCA) after those tasks were complete. One of those tasks was to conduct a study on the value of acoustics to forensic science. The DOJ was not able to complete that task, instead, the hired the National Research Council (NRC) to evaluate the specific acoustic evidence presented to the HSCA. The NRC report was very critical of the acoustic analysis and of course the cross talk issue was discovered. The DOJ was greatly influenced by the NRC report and one can see that when reading their letter to the House of Reps.

Here is a link to the letter from the DOJ. In this letter the DOJ revokes the finding that there was a conspiracy.

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Now, can you explain how the Department of Justice has the power to over-rule a Congressional investigation?

Or why the DOJ, which tried to influence a state trial related to the JFK case, would be unbiased?

And, as I previously stated in the original post: The "official stand" of the U.S. Government is that there was a "probable conspiracy".

And absent another investigation - that's where it stands now.