JFK Assassination Forum

    Witt said by the time he got the umbrella open, the JFK Limo had passed by him. That's pure  . Like I said, the Bronson Film was not public knowledge when he testified. This is why nobody on the panel questioned him about the difference between his testimony and the Bronson Film Images. There is simply NO WAY the Witt WC Testimony is "perfectly consistent" with his testimony. It's not even close. And he says, "POSSIBLY standing on the retaining wall." Again, that too is pure  . "POSSIBLY"? And you wanna swear by that?

Still no evidence the Russians affected the outcome of the election in either 2016 or 2024.

   Umbrella Man is standing on the sidewalk. This is why he said something along the lines of, "... just sat down" with respect to sitting on the retaining wall behind him. People such as yourself are simply unfamiliar with just how wide that sidewalk is. When they shut down Dealey Plaza to do the CSI work, they had DPD Cop Cars parked on that same sidewalk. Those cop cars did not hang over the sides of the sidewalk. That Elm St sidewalk is not similar to the one you used to play hopscotch on.

ME: Did the [Republican-controlled] Senate Select Committee on Intelligence find that Russia's interference in the 2016 election was more widespread and intensive than it had been in previous years?

GROK: Yes, the bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) explicitly affirmed that Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election represented a significant escalation compared to previous Russian operations.

In Volume 4 of its report ("Review of the Intelligence Community Assessment"), the committee reviewed the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) and found it presented a coherent, well-supported case. The SSCI stated that the ICA made a clear argument that the manner and aggressiveness of the Russian interference was historically unprecedented. It specifically endorsed the ICA's judgment that the Russian campaign "demonstrated a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort compared to previous operations."

Key supporting elements from the SSCI's multi-volume report include:

Unprecedented activity against election infrastructure: Volume 1 described "an unprecedented level of activity against state election infrastructure" by Russian intelligence, which occurred in all 50 states. The committee viewed this as potentially a "trial run" to probe U.S. defenses.

Aggressive, multi-faceted campaign: Across volumes, the report concluded that "the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multi-faceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election." This included hacking-and-leaking (e.g., DNC and Podesta emails), a sophisticated social media/information warfare operation by the Internet Research Agency (IRA) aimed at polarizing Americans and boosting Trump while harming Clinton, and other active measures.

Broader context and scale: The committee noted this went beyond prior Russian efforts (e.g., in 2008 or 2012), with greater directness, cyber elements, and scope. It affirmed the ICA's core findings on Russian leadership intent (ordered by Putin, with a preference for Trump) while critiquing the ICA for limited historical context on earlier interference.

The SSCI's investigation was one of the most exhaustive congressional reviews, involving over 200 interviews and more than a million pages of documents. Its findings were bipartisan (Republican-led at the time, with input from both parties) and aligned with the 2017 ICA and other assessments (e.g., Special Counsel Mueller's report described the interference as "sweeping and systematic"). The committee highlighted ongoing vulnerabilities but did not find evidence of collusion/coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian government—though it identified significant counterintelligence risks from contacts.

In short, the SSCI did not merely repeat prior assessments; it independently reviewed the underlying intelligence and explicitly supported the conclusion that 2016 marked a more intensive and widespread Russian effort than in earlier years. The full reports (Volumes 1–5) are available on the Senate Intelligence Committee's website.

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Libertarians are the worst.

Especially pro-Trump Libertarians.

You guys continue bowing at the Kamp alter, but he did totally botch his Lovelady ID. And then there's his "Prayer Man" debacle. His scorecard has him right on track to become the next curator at the Sixth Floor Museum.