Rafael Caro Quintero and the JFK Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2022-07-20 at 22:45:00 )

Rafael Caro Quintero and the JFK Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger!

United States officials are celebrating the capture of Rafael Caro Quintero, the Mexican drug lord wanted for the kidnapping, torture, and execution in 1985 of a DEA agent named Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, who had been assigned to operate in Mexico as part of the United States war on drugs. Caro Quintero had already served 28 years in jail in Mexico for his role in the Camarena crime when he was released in 2013 by a Mexican judge. United States officials have never given up trying to find him and bring him to justice here in the United States. In 2018, they offered a $20 million reward for his capture.

The entire Camarena saga is set forth in Netflixs great series Narco Mexico. According to Wikipedia, after Mr. Camarenas murder, the DEA launched Operation Leyenda, "the largest DEA homicide investigation ever undertaken." It involved sending a DEA team to Mexico to investigate and bring to justice every single person involved in Mr. Camarenas kidnapping, torture, and murder. Their actions included kidnapping suspects and forcibly bringing them back to the United States for trial.

DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena

Under deep pressure from United States officials, Caro Quintero, who was in charge of the Guadalajara drug cartel, was ultimately convicted in Mexico of participating in the crime. He received a 40-year jail sentence. With his recapture, the United States government is now seeking his extradition so that he can be prosecuted here in the United States for Mr. Camarenas murder. (It goes without saying that Caro Quinteros long jail sentence did nothing to help win the war on drugs, which continues to this day.)

That is how we expect federal officials to operate. When a federal official is murdered, federal officials will pull out all the stops to determine all of the people involved in the crime, if for no other reason than to deter others from killing federal officials.

Many years ago, a federal judge in San Antonio named John Wood was assassinated. Just like in the Camarena case, federal officials pulled out all the stops to investigate and bring to justice everyone involved in the assassination. That included monitoring communications between lawyers and their clients.

None of this should surprise us. That is exactly how we expect federal officials to operate when a federal official is murdered.

It is no different, of course, at the state and local level. When someone kills a cop, all the other police officers immediately make that crime their top priority. Just like federal officials, they pull out all the stops to investigate and bring to justice all of the people involved in the cop-killing.

What does all this have to do with the Kennedy assassination?

As I point out in my new book An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story, things worked completely differently in the Kennedy assassination. That is how we know that something serious was amiss with respect to that assassination of a United States president.

The official narrative in the Kennedy assassination is that Kennedy was assassinated by a purported lone nut named Lee Harvey Oswald who just happened to be at the right place at the right time. The JFK assassination occurred on Friday, November 22. Two days later - Sunday, November 24 - Oswald was himself assassinated.

On that day - November 24, only two days after Kennedy had been assassinated - FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover decided that official investigations into the presidents murder should now be terminated. He said that there could be no doubt that Oswald was a lone shooter.

The very next day - Monday, November 25 - Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach sent out a memo stating that it was imperative that Americans be convinced that Mr. Oswald was a lone assassin.

How in the world could Mr. Hoover and Mr. Katzenbach possibly know that? Even if Mr. Oswald was a shooter, how could they decide so quickly that he did not have confederates?

Like I stated above, that is just not how federal officials operate when a federal official is murdered. They pull out all the stops to bring to justice everyone involved in the crime. With the murder of a United States president, the efforts to ascertain everyone involved in the crime and bring them to justice would be much greater than with the murder of a DEA agent or a federal judge.

As the risk of belaboring the obvious, in order to ascertain everyone involved in the Kennedy assassination, a full investigation would be needed, one that we would last at least several weeks, if not months.

There was a very good reason why everything worked differently in the Kennedy assassination and why Mr. Hoover and Mr. Katzenbach and other federal officials felt the urgent need to break with standard practice by immediately shutting down any further investigation into determining all the people involved in the assassination of a United States president. It is all set forth in Chapters 18 and 19 of my new book An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Libertarian Website!!