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Gerald Ford White House Altered Rockefeller Commission Report in 1975...Led By Cheney - NEW (Original Post) Mark 750 Apr 2016 OP
'White House Aide Dick Cheney Spearheaded Editing of Report,' elleng Apr 2016 #1
Yeah but it is in the article: dixiegrrrrl Apr 2016 #3
No doubt JFK, Bobby and MLK was in there. Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2016 #2

elleng

(141,926 posts)
1. 'White House Aide Dick Cheney Spearheaded Editing of Report,'
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 12:49 AM
Apr 2016

a pretty significant fact your OP omitted.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,158 posts)
3. Yeah but it is in the article:
Tue Apr 5, 2016, 02:58 PM
Apr 2016
Washington, DC, February 29, 2016 – The Gerald Ford White House significantly altered the final report of the supposedly independent 1975 Rockefeller Commission investigating CIA domestic activities, over the objections of senior Commission staff, according to internal White House and Commission documents posted today by the National Security Archive at The George Washington University (www.nsarchive.org).
The changes included removal of an entire 86-page section on CIA assassination plots and numerous edits to the report by then-deputy White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney.
Today’s posting includes the entire suppressed section on assassination attempts, Cheney’s handwritten marginal notes, staff memos warning of the fallout of deleting the controversial section, and White House strategies for presenting the edited report to the public. The documents show that the leadership of the presidentially-appointed commission deliberately curtailed the investigation and ceded its independence to White House political operatives.
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