Family refuses FBI access to columnist's 'legacy'
It's being reported here, that the the CIA are going to extraordinary lengths to carry out Bush's crackdown on private individuals who may hold classified documents.
It now transpires that the CIA want to trawl through the records of Pulitzer prize winning journalist Jack Anderson's archives - despite the fact that he has been dead for four months.
Anderson, considered by many to be one of the fathers of modern journalism, was credited with breaking the Iran Contra affair.
He was also seen as such an enemy of the Nixon administration that two Nixon administration cohorts admitted under oath that there was a plot to poison him on the orders of a top aide to the Nixon White House.
The Anderson family had planned to donate Jack's archives to George Washington University, although it would appear the Bushites have plans to stymie this.Kevin Anderson, the columnist’s son, said that FBI “made it very clear on the front end that if they are looking through his papers and they come across documents that are stamped confidential or top secret, they would be duty bound to take those out of the collection.”
Washington attorney Michael Sullivan, who represents Anderson's widow and children in the case, confirmed a letter was sent to the FBI Tuesday afternoon saying that if Jack was alive he would not have co-operated with this investigation, but would have resisted it with all the energy he could muster. To honour his memory the family have adopted a similar stance.
Sullivan said, "I've been representing journalists for 25 years, and I've never seen the government make this type of request."
The CIA are claiming that they need access to his files to aid in the investigation of two AIPAC members charged with receiving sensitive goverment papers relating to Iran.
The family say that Anderson had no contact with AIPAC during the time in question and they find the timing of this suspicious as the CIA called soon after Jack's funeral and the AIPAC investigation has been ongoing for some five years.
It would appear that the paranoia of the Bush camp determines that no stone shall be left unturned in their quest to withhold any information they regard as secret.
Grave robbing is now an accepted practice for these buggers.
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