President Trump To Allow The Release Of Classified Files On JFK’s Assassination
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On Saturday morning, President Trump announced (via Twitter, of course) that he would allow the “long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened.”
Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 21, 2017
What does this mean? Will conspiracy theories FINALLY die down?
The National Archives has until Oct. 26 to disclose the remaining thousands of never-seen government documents on the 1963 assassination, unless Trump changes course and tries to block their release.
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However, to what additional information the president was referring was unclear.
The CIA and FBI, whose records make up the bulk of the batch, won’t say whether they’ve appealed to the Trump administration to keep them under wraps.
“The American public deserves to know the facts, or at least they deserve to know what the government has kept hidden from them for all these years,” Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of a book about Kennedy, said in an email to The Associated Press.
The Fox News report goes on to say that the files are “unlikely” to give us any big bombshell revelations, but this is still significant.
It’s unlikely the documents contain any big revelations about Kennedy’s killing, said Judge John Tunheim, who was chairman of the independent agency in the 1990s that made public many assassination records and decided how long others could remain secret.
Sabato and other JFK scholars believe the trove of files may provide insight into assassin Lee Harvey Oswald’s trip to Mexico City weeks before the killing.
At this point, intelligence agencies are staying quiet.
The FBI declined to comment on whether it has asked Trump to keep the files hidden. A CIA spokeswoman would say only that it “continues to engage in the process to determine the appropriate next steps with respect to any previously-unreleased CIA information.”
Congress mandated in 1992 that all assassination documents be released within 25 years, unless the president asserts that doing so would harm intelligence, law enforcement, military operations or foreign relations. The still-secret documents include more than 3,000 that have never been seen by the public and more than 30,000 that have been released previously, but with redactions.
The files that were withheld in full were those the Assassination Records Review Board deemed “not believed relevant,” Tunheim said. Its members sought to ensure they weren’t hiding any information directly related to Kennedy’s assassination, but there may be nuggets of information in the files that they didn’t realize was important two decades ago, he said.
“There could be some jewels in there because in our level of knowledge in the 1990s is maybe different from today,” Tunheim said.
The National Archives would not say whether any agencies have appealed the release of the documents.
Guess we’ll see…
h/t Fox News
