"Nevertheless, we must remember that Thomas himself claimed that enhancements made by the FBI and Secret Service (???) yielded no useful result. It was only the Aerospace enhancement that was (allegedly) intelligible at all. And THAT has never been made public. So WHAT point has been made, exactly, by Lin Wood, in releasing this recording?"

No, DocG, ST did NOT say the FBI and Secret Service obntained no useful result. Read his own words in his deposition:

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1 A. I'm not sure that the first two
2 agencies ever heard anything because I'm not
3 sure they ever listened to the tape. I'm
4 just --
5 Q. Did you not bother to ask the
6 FBI, I mean, you -- please, Mr. Thomas?
7 MR. DIAMOND: Two questions.
8 Q. (BY MR. WOOD) Did you ever
9 bother to call the FBI and say, gentlemen,
10 what did you find about the 911 tape?
11 A. I'm sure Detective Hickman, whose
12 assignment this was, may have done that.
13 Q. Well, what, did you ask Hickman
14 what did the FBI say? You know, we've spent
15 a lot of time with the FBI, Tom, what did
16 they say? Did you ask him?
17 MR. DIAMOND: Did he ask him
18 what?
19 Q. (BY MR. WOOD) What the FBI had
20 to say about the 911 tape?
21 A. Again, as I've said it's my
22 understanding, Mr. Wood, that I don't know
23 whether or not the FBI or Secret Service even
24 tested the tape. The first testing that was
25 done on it, to my knowledge, was through the
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1 Aerospace Corporation.
2 Q. And did you -- have you ever
3 tried at any time as you sit here today to
4 make any efforts to find out about whether
5 the FBI or the Secret Service even tested the
6 tape and if so, what their results were?
7 A. I don't know that.
8 Q. Have you made any efforts is my
9 question?
10 A. No.
11 Q. As we sit here today, you've never
12 made any effort to find that out --
13 A. No.
14 Q. -- right? Am I right? Sometimes
15 the no comes out differently. The question
16 is you've never made any such efforts to find
17 out about the FBI or the Secret Service
18 testing of the tape?
19 A. I have not made calls or efforts
20 trying to determine that to the FBI or Secret
21 Service.
22 Q. As we sit here today you have not
23 done that?
24 A. That's right.

Doc, you ask what the tape proves. It proves there was no conversation, it proves the Ramseys DID NOT lie about any conversation, and it proves Steve Thomas lied in his book about the alleged conversation. And, it proves that the unnamed inside sources who spun this "enhanced tape" business to the media were conducting a public campaign to discredit the Ramseys by making them out to be liars.

Mary Keenan released a copy taken from the original 911 call tape and that was given to NBC via Lin Wood. Their experts found no evidence of a third voice or any conversation after the hangup. Keenan's office released the same tape to the public which is consistent with the tape used by NBC. There is no logical reason to doubt the validity of the testing done by NBC or the authenticity of the tape distributed by Mary Keenan to Lin Wood and the public. The reason you don't hear any of the conversation as alleged by 'unnamed sources' and ST is simple - it was never there. It's a fabrication intended to unfairly portray the Ramseys as liars.

The tape does not prove they didn't kill JonBenet, but it does prove how low the BPD would go to smear them.