CIA to release documents

[petasux]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19360920/

Why would they at this point in time decide to release 50 years worth of documents to the public highlighting all thier illegal activity?Seriously, theres some pretty serious things in there, isnt a confession going to open the door for prosecution on some of this stuff?From the blurbs in the artical its got dates, names, the whole works attached to it.

I honestly dont see the good that can come of this, escpecially when everyone in Washingtons currently prosecution happy.Public speculation about CIA abuses is one thing, a written confession about them is a whole new ball game.Why dont they just invest in a document shredder like everyone else in the country??

[falcon]

Mostthe stuff that has been declassified is decades old. Stuff about the overthrow of the duly elected leader of Iran in about 1953, etc. Oh, there will be some liberals in congress who cry their little eyes out over this stuff. There will be those so called "conservatives" who support the crooked and corrupt actions of the CIA years ago. In the end it is mostly ancient history. Details of much of it leaked out years ago.

[petasux]

Much of it may be ancient history but its still illegal.Im not really concerned about what theyve done I guesse,it wont change anything at this point anyhow.I just for the life of me cant see why theyve decided to declassify the stuff now.The publics overall opinion of our givernments pretty much in the toilet at this point in time anyway so why come clean in an already hostile atmosphere.The political climate in Washingtons been very divided the last few years anyway and it takes very little to get the finger pointing and prosecuters going as long as it makes the other party look bad, its going to get worse as the election nears and the smear campaigns start.It just akes very little sense to me in light of all the other trivial crap thats been turned into major issues as of late.

[Red Lion]

Are we going to find out again that the Lusitania was carrying weapons, including artilery on deck, when sunk?

[BigTiny]

If they never found any WMD on the Lusitania, then they never existed!

[petasux]

They could have washed up in Syria

[falcon]

"Are we going to find out again that the Lusitania was carrying weapons, including artilery on deck, when sunk?"

"What must be remembered is that DEFINITELY aboard the ship, in the enlarged forward hold, was a total of
1,248 cases of LIVE 3" shrapnel shells(four shells per case) destined for use by the Royal Artillery, as well as two consignments of unrefrigerated "butter" and "cheese" that together weighed nearly 90 tons and were both destined for the Royal Navy Weapons Testing Establishment in Essex."

"Quite what such an establishment wanted with such a large quantity of rancid dairy products remains a mystery to this day!"

"Curiously though, both those items were insured at the special government insurance rate and even more curious is the fact that the insurance was never claimed."

http://www.lusitania.net/deadlycargo.html