Lame LN excuses

[John Iacoletti]

You also need to stop trying to divert every thread with your off-topic strawman questions.

[Thomas Graves]

You also need to stop trying to divert every thread with your off-topic strawman questions.

1)  Howard Brennan lied at the lineup because he was scared for his family.

Brennan lied?

How so?

--  MWT 

[John Iacoletti]

1)  Howard Brennan lied at the lineup because he was scared for his family.

Brennan lied?

How so?

Mr. BELIN. Now, is there anything else you told the officers at the time of the lineup?
Mr. BRENNAN. Well, I told them I could not make a positive identification.
Mr. BELIN. When you told them that, did you ever later tell any offlcer or investigating person anything
different?
Mr. BRENNAN. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. When did that happen?
Mr. BRENNAN. I believe some days later-I don’t recall exactly-and I believe the Service man identifled hisself as being Williams, I believe, from Houston. I won’t swear to that-whether his name was Williams or not.
Mr. BELIN. All right.
Mr. BRENNAN. And he could have been an FBI. As far as I remember, it could have been FBI instead of Secret Service.
But I believe it was a Secret Service man from Houston.
And I-
Mr. BELIN. What did he say to you and what did you say to him?
Mr. BRENNAN. Well, he asked me-he said, “You said you couldn’t make a positive identification.”
He said, “Did you do that for security reasons personally, or couldn’t you?’ And I told him I could with all honesty, but I did it more or less for security reasons--my family and myself.

[Thomas Graves]

Mr. BELIN. Now, is there anything else you told the officers at the time of the lineup?
Mr. BRENNAN. Well, I told them I could not make a positive identification.
Mr. BELIN. When you told them that, did you ever later tell any offlcer or investigating person anything
different?
Mr. BRENNAN. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. When did that happen?
Mr. BRENNAN. I believe some days later-I don’t recall exactly-and I believe the Service man identifled hisself as being Williams, I believe, from Houston. I won’t swear to that-whether his name was Williams or not.
Mr. BELIN. All right.
Mr. BRENNAN. And he could have been an FBI. As far as I remember, it could have been FBI instead of Secret Service.
But I believe it was a Secret Service man from Houston.
And I-
Mr. BELIN. What did he say to you and what did you say to him?
Mr. BRENNAN. Well, he asked me-he said, “You said you couldn’t make a positive identification.”
He said, “Did you do that for security reasons personally, or couldn’t you?’ And I told him I could with all honesty, but I did it more or less for security reasons--my family and myself.

Iacoletti

How is that lying?

Did any witnesses who allegedly saw an evil, evil, evil CIA or FBI or ONI or Army Intelligence or Mafia (or whatever) operative plan to kill or kill JFK or Tippit refuse to divulge what they allegedly saw or heard to the authorities right after it happened?

--  MWT

[John Iacoletti]

How is that lying?

Seriously, Graves?

He said that he really could make an identification but told the police that day that he could not.

That’s a lie. Unless you think that claim in his testimony was actually a lie. Then it’s just a different lie. But either way, he lied.

[Thomas Graves]

Seriously, Graves?

He said that he really could make an identification but told the police that day that he could not.

That’s a lie. Unless you think that claim in his testimony was actually a lie. Then it’s just a different lie. But either way, he lied.

Iacoletti,

Everybody is capable of having a change of heart and telling a fib or two when they believe that they or their family might be in danger, so where's the beef if that was the case with Brennan?

Regardless, who's to say that Oswald didn't appear quite different to him at that normal angle, wearing those clothes, in that lighting, at that close distance, etc. -- factors Brennan obviously couldn't envision when he told the police, "Sure, I can identify him, easy!" ?

D'oh

--  MWT   

[John Iacoletti]

Everybody is capable of having a change of heart and telling a fib or two when they believe that they or their family might be in danger, so where's the beef if that was the case with Brennan?

So it wasn’t a lie, it was a “fib”. Got it.