Does this mean that you consider it possible that the FBI manipulated evidence and sometimes withheld crucial information from the Warren Commission?
I wouldn’t go that far. They (FBI experts) are accustomed to testifying in legal proceedings. And unlike most of the ordinary citizen assassination witnesses, they answer the questions...period; without rambling on, etc. The WC investigators asked the questions, and the FBI was obligated to answer them honestly. But the FBI experts were not obligated to offer information that they were not asked about. And that is what I believe happened in the fiber evidence. They just didn’t offer up any information about fibers that they were not asked about. They believed that LHO was wearing CE 150, had fiber evidence that supports that belief. And didn’t want to muddy up the water. You and I are not immune from presenting our views similarly.
Hang on... The FBI experts were not just witnesses. The WC had no investigators of their own and relied on the FBI to do all the investigative work. In other words, the FBI were not at liberty to withhold any kind of information from the WC.
Obviously, it is true that a witness, any kind of witness for that matter, normally simply answers questions and does not offer any information voluntarily. But when it comes to an investigator that's an entirely different matter. An investigator, or for that matter an investigative body as the FBI, does not have the right to withhold any results from their investigation to a court or, as in this case, a factfinding committee that the WC was supposed to be.
Even worse, if this had been a court case, the FBI would have violated the law by not disclosing all the evidence they had obtained, be it for or against the defendant.
They believed that LHO was wearing CE 150, had fiber evidence that supports that belief. And didn’t want to muddy up the water.That's the definition of manipulating evidence.
You and I are not immune from presenting our views similarly.You and I are birds of a different feather. You, as a WC defender, take on the roll as a prosecutor and I, as a WC skeptic, take on the roll of defense counsel. We both can be selective about the evidence we present and emphasize. An investigator does not have that same privilege.