How come this Judge Owen was picked twice in a row? How come the coram nobis sat for four years on his desk? How come there was denial after denial when the evidence is mind-bogglingly clear that the prosecution broke laws and violated Constitutional rights? That the FBI did too? That the “greatest treason conspiracy in this nation’s history” was nothing but routine maintenance instructions from manuals in a public library? How come not even the Supreme Court would pay attention? This is one reason why it’s so telling that William O. Douglas – longest-serving justice of the Supreme Court – wrote that “in my view no court at any time could possibly have sustained the conviction.” And yet his very own court did just that.
And the money. Where did it all come from? Who authorized it? Forget junior congressmen choreographing hearings with rent-a-crowds, then flying whole committees to snazzy hotel suites to interview mystery witnesses who aren’t a mystery. Forget press manipulation. It’s the sheer manpower involved. Maybe Chambers is right for once when he says there wasn’t an FBI field office in the country that was not in on the investigation. Alger’s file certainly indicates droves of them. Then there’s the Counter Intelligence Corps as well as the Office of Strategic Services. We’re looking at hundreds of secret service agents – probably thousands of them – swarming together to fabricate a case against a single citizen. And I’d say we’re looking at interference with the justice system that reaches all the way up to the Supreme Court.
There’s got to be some way to explain such a thing, and I’m one of those people who has theories about everything.