The Justice Department and the FBI were forced to release the last ten pages of the “John Lennon Files” December 19th after the FBI and Justice were ruled against for the umteenth time by the federal courts.I wish John Lennon were alive today. I really do, because I'd do anything to hear him talk about his feelings on the state of the world. Personally, I think George Carlin was right - the wrong two Beatles died first. (Not that I have anything against Ringo - he was the first Beatle to appear on The Simpsons, and set a great precedent in that vein.)LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - 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.
One only wonders what other secrets this administration is keeping.
