hornberger makes the same point i've been making; the group that murdered jfk and got away with it is still in charge;

Someone might reasonably ask, “What difference does the JFK assassination make to those of us living today? The assassination took place more than 60 years ago. Everyone involved in it is now dead. Why not just forget it and move on?’

Those are reasonable questions, especially when they come from young people. Why should they care about who killed Kennedy?

The reason lies in the governmental structure under all of us have been born and raised — a national-security state form of governmental structure. As I have long maintained, the worst mistake the American people have ever made was to permit the federal government to be converted to a national-security state.

Our founding governmental system was a limited-government republic. Its powers were strictly limited by the Constitution and even more expressly restricted by the Bill of Rights. That governing structure worked very well for more than 150 years.

After World War II, the U.S. government was converted into a national-security state, which is a totally different type of governmental structure. The national-security branch of the government  — i.e., the Pentagon, the vast military-industrial complex, the army of “defense” contractors, the CIA, and the NSA — wield omnipotent, totalitarian-like powers, including the power of assassination. There is no such thing as “limited government” under a national-security state.

Owing to the massive power of this branch of the government, the other branches inevitably deferred to the national-security branch. Thus, while the federal courts would declare an assassination program of the DEA unconstitutional, they would’t dare to declare an assassination program of the CIA unconstitutional.........more......