FBI releases last of John Lennon files. Are we in danger, now?
The FBI has released the last 10 documents from
its secret files on slain Beatle John Lennon that had been withheld for 25 years
on the ground they could prompt “military retaliation” against the
United States, campaigners for their release said on Wednesday.
The FBI has released the last 10 documents from its secret files on slain Beatle John Lennon that had been withheld for 25 years on the ground they could prompt “military retaliation” against the United States, campaigners for their release said on Wednesday.
The files turn out to contain only well known information about Lennon’s ties to left-wing leaders and antiwar groups in London in 1970 and 1971, said Jon Wiener, a history professor at the University of California, Irvine, and the Southern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
“Today we can see that the national security claims the FBI has been making for 25 years were absurd from the beginning. The Lennon FBI file is a classic case of excessive government secrecy,” Wiener said in a statement.
The released documents include one that states Lennon “encouraged the belief that he holds revolutionary views … by the content of some of his songs.”
Read through the article and reflect upon a bureaucracy that feared “…military retaliation against the United States” if it released these files.
Posted: Thu - December 21, 2006 at 08:31 AM