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Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
You dont have to be a lawyer to understand the law
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
When did they put the plan into effect?
And what part of the US Code would be violated if they did put the plan into effect?
Army Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, presented the Operation Northwoods plan to Kennedy early in 1962, but the president rejected it that March because he wanted no overt U.S. military action against Cuba. Lemnitzer then sought unsuccessfully to destroy all evidence of the plan, according to Bamford.
Lemnitzer and those who served with him in 1962 as chiefs of the nation's military branches are dead. But two former top Kennedy administration officials said yesterday that they were unaware of Operation Northwoods and questioned whether such a plan was ever drafted.
"I've never heard of Operation Northwoods. Never heard of it and don't believe it," said Theodore Sorenson, Kennedy's White House special counsel. "Obviously, it would be totally illegal as well as totally unwise."
Robert S. McNamara, Kennedy's defense secretary, said: "I never heard of it. I can't believe the chiefs were talking about or engaged in what I would call CIA-type operations."
Theodore Chaikin "Ted" Sorensen (born May 8, 1928) is of counsel (retired Senior Partner) at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and writer, best known as President John F. Kennedy’s special counsel and adviser, legendary speechwriter, and alter ego. President Kennedy once called him his “intellectual blood bank.”
Just because YOU think its illegal, doesnt make it so.
And Kennedy's own legal counsel agrees with me. He's a lawyer. You're not. Btw I notice you backed down from the fact that anyone who joins the military in the first place has to sign a contract (what are you, a dirty recruiter?) so these guys would have contractual legal obligations as military officials to uphold the law, and therefore also COULD have been relieved and court martialed over conspiring an "obviously" (lawyer's word) illegal plan.
You are genetically wired to misrepresent the facts arent you?
Originally posted by impressme
reply to post by Swampfox46_1999
You are genetically wired to misrepresent the facts arent you?
Pot calling kettle.
And onto the enlistment contracts, I havent backed down on anything. You said that in order to become one of the Joint Chiefs, you had to sign a contract
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
I do not routinely misquote people.
Far too many loopholes in the OS. I am called a birther and a truther but actually I am an American who proudly served our country in the Viet Nam era with two honourable discharges and a medal with a V device. 6 years I served and I feel that I and every other American, even if they did nothing else but pay taxes deserve a better story and explaination than what has been presented.
I could even start to swallow OS, then, how could you account for our country treatment the 911 First Responders? Obama just refused 11 Billon Dollar Help for them!
Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
I do not routinely misquote people.
Wait -- so now I've misquoted the guy who says Northwoods would have been obviously illegal?
You're saying I misquoted him now?