What, No X Files?

If you ever wished you could sift through the FBI records on John F. Kennedy or the crash at Roswell, New Mexico, from the comfort of your own home, you're in for a treat...get your tin foil hat out from under your bed and grab your laptop, because the FBI has opened "The Vault!"  Complete with its' own search engine, http://vault.fbi.gov/ combines nerdy fascination with "Unexplained Phenomenon"  with nerdy keyword searches and pdf files!  Now you can sift through all of the documents the FBI has on Jimi Hendrix and Bettie Page with just a few clicks and satisfy your morbid curiosity electronically.  The choices are pretty broad actually, ranging from "Custodial Interrogation for Public Saftey" to "Motion Picture Copyright Infringement."  Pretty heady stuff, right?  There are also documents on people like Erich Fromm, Aristotle Onasis, and Robert F. Kennedy, and for those who really like to read, there's a complete timeline of the 9/11 hijackers down to the coffee they had at Starbucks the morning before the attacks.  "You're such a snot, Mr. Johnson," you might be saying, "this is a good thing the agency is doing!  Don't you feel like you can trust the government more now, you paranoid conservitard?"  Well, don't let me stop you, lefty, head on over to the site and pdf your heart out.  Just a heads up, though, I already checked out the Roswell stuff, and it's..well...pretty freaking boring.  It kind of reads like some agent's hastily typed out report on a phone call he got.  In fact, I think that's exactly what it is.  Lots of information there, though, if you don't mind the blacked-out names and the "Best Copy Available" stamps all over everything.  See, some of those documents are so old and faded that I have to assume not even the G-Men give a crap anymore.  At first I went into it thinking I'd find some thing like "Thank God Geraldo didn't knock down that wall, he might have found all of the vampire skulls in Capone's vault!"  Thirty seconds was all it took for me to realize it was just a bunch of old files and reports.  Scully and Moulder must be keeping their records in a different place.  Oh, well.