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>The committee issued a controversial 1995 report which said that "wrongs were committed" but it did not condemn those who perpetrated them. The final report ca
by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>The committee issued a controversial 1995 report which said that "wrongs were committed" but it did not condemn those who perpetrated them. The final report came out on October 3, 1995, the same day as the verdict in the O.J. Simpson case, when much of the media's attention was directed elsewhere." [0]
Even if the verdict had not been announced that day, the visit of the Pope would have overshadowed the release of a 1,000 page advisory committee report which itself was only a slightly expanded investigation of an incident that had already been covered by a congressional committee report nine years earlier.
Some people use the coincidence to imply that the administration tried to bury it, but it was actually an open-government initiative by the Clinton Administration meant to highlight their pursuit of injustice and had been on the calendar for weeks, with the printing of hundreds of copies of a 1,000 page book, the scheduling of a White House ceremony, and guests having been flown in from all over the country.
The president even gave a 20-minute speech about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StId27Dmx78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StId27Dmx78
Whereas it was impossible to predict when the OJ Simpson verdict would be announced.