Unwanted Facts: Facts that Most Books on the Lincoln Assassination Ignore

[RJNorton]

(12-01-2018 04:21 PM)mikegriffith1 Wrote:  The FBI lab experts found massive evidence of tampering.

In the diary Booth wrote:

"Though I have a greater desire and almost a mind to return to Washington, and in a measure clear my name - which I feel I can do."

I feel one interpretation of this could be that Booth was feeling that in Washington he could reveal the names of the conspiracy's higher ups in return for a reduced sentence (turn state's evidence).

If the diary were really tampered with why didn't Stanton expunge these words of Booth's if he (Stanton) were really the one who recruited Booth to assassinate the President?