Final_Judgment

494 The Battle of the Books [397]
However, Posner never tells his readers that Mrs. Hill has repeatedly and
consistently said that the transcription of the deposition was inaccurate and a
distortion of what she actually told Specter to begin with. What's more,
obviously, it seems unlikely that Specter would have permitted his own
threatening remarks to become a part of the record anyway. But this is
another primary example of how Posner plays fast and loose with the facts.
In another instance Posner seeks to discredit one of Jim Garrison's
witnesses who says that he contacted the FBI about Oswald (after the
assassination) to report on an apparent visit by Oswald (prior to the
assassination) to Clinton, Louisiana. According to Posner, however, "there
is no record of such a call." This, of course, suggests that the FBI was
totally above-board in the JFK assassination inquiry and kept records of all
matters relating to Oswald and the JFK assassination conspiracy—which we
know is not the truth. But Posner accepts the FBI's word on the matter and
as far as Posner is concerned, that's that.
Then, although throughout his book Posner has attempted to analyze
and psychoanalyze comments made at one time or another by Lee Harvey
Oswald, Posner never once comments upon—or otherwise mentions the
fact—that Oswald also said he was a "patsy." Posner would have us believe
that Oswald had just achieved the greatest accomplishment of his pathetic
life and now had nothing to say about that fact.
When attempting to dismiss the possibility that Oswald was a CIA
operative, Posner relies on the CIA's own repudiation of a claim by a
former CIA employee that Oswald was indeed on the CIA's payroll. (Sure,
Gerald, the CIA will be the first to admit it!)
Posner says on page 49, on the one hand, that the KGB had no
interest in Oswald and then, ten pages later, on page 59 he says that as
many as twenty KGB agents were keeping an eye on Oswald. (Make up
your mind!)
POSNER'S DISTORTIONS OF TRUTH
In his appendix on many of the mysterious deaths surrounding the
JFK assassination, Posner commits a number of outrages against the truth.
Now needless to say, many of the so-called "mysterious deaths" are not so
mysterious at all. I personally believe that many JFK assassination
researchers have gone overboard in linking a number of such deaths to the
conspiracy. But in the case of Posner there are at least two glaring instances
where, again, Posner plays fast and loose with the facts.
(1) In reference to the death of Maurice Gatlin, Posner states simply
that Gatlin died from "injuries from a fall." In fact, Gatlin died after he fell
from a hotel window—perhaps after having been pushed, of course. But
Posner never mentions the circumstances. Posner also comments that
Gatlin's name "is probably on the list because he was once hired by Guy
Banister for an unconnected investigation." Posner does not mention that
Gatlin was allegedly the courier who carried several hundred thousands
dollars in cash to Europe that was earmarked for the Israeli-linked French