MKULTRA returns to CongressRep. Anna Paulina Luna chaired a House Oversight Task Force hearing on the declassification of federal secrets, and the subject was MKULTRA, the CIA program that ran from 1953 to 1973. Lawmakers heard testimony about LSD, psychological torture, electroshock, hypnosis, and sensory deprivation used on unwitting people that included hospital patients, prisoners, veterans, and American citizens. Luna called the program crimes against American citizens and said the real scandal is not only what the CIA did, but how long Congress was kept in the dark. Bureaucracies love to talk about transparency right up until someone asks for the actual papers.https://twitter.com/RealAF_Patriot/status/2072053856947650950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/RyanTiedgen/status/2071973070269768050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/RepLuna/status/2071977059396595738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The records that went up in smokeLuna said CIA Director Richard Helms personally ordered MKULTRA records destroyed in 1973 as he left office. Sidney Gottlieb and his team spent a full day burning 152 files, then had Gottlieb’s personal papers destroyed as well. The head of the CIA’s records center objected in writing and was overruled, which is a neat reminder that internal objections often work like a note taped to a shredder. Luna said that was obstruction of justice and criminal destruction of federal records. No one went to prison, and no victims received…

Police say a parking dispute turned deadlyAuthorities in Broward County say a routine Walmart parking lot argument turned into a fatal shooting just before 12:30 p.m. Tuesday outside the store at 7900 W. McNab Road in North Lauderdale. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, 62-year-old Bart Diguglielmo of Lauderhill was shot during a dispute over a parking space and later died at a local hospital. Deputies said Diguglielmo was unarmed. A woman involved in the argument fired the shot, and investigators have said she is claiming self-defense. That is the kind of claim that always sounds neat and tidy in a press update, right up until a family has to live with the aftermath.Diguglielmo’s family says he was a veteran and Christian manDiguglielmo’s family described him as a Christian man and a decorated Army National Guard veteran who served in Desert Storm. That detail matters because it gives this story a face before it gets buried under the usual local-incident machinery of police statements, shorthand headlines, and endless public relations fog. What happened here was not a policy debate or a talking point. It was a man shot and killed over a parking space. The facts so far are stark:…