25 October 2021

JFK assassination records not being released yet

As reported by Politico:
Two nephews of John F. Kennedy are calling on the Biden administration to release the final trove of secret documents on the 1963 assassination of the former president.

The records were scheduled to be made public Tuesday, but the White House announced late Friday night that it would delay their publication until at least Dec. 15 — and perhaps longer if President Joe Biden determines it’s in the nation’s best interest to keep them confidential.

“It’s an outrage. It’s an outrage against American democracy. We’re not supposed to have secret governments within the government,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told POLITICO. “How the hell is it 58 years later, and what in the world could justify not releasing these documents?”..

Biden’s decision to continue Trump’s policy of shielding the records came as a surprise to historians and experts on the assassination because he had served in the U.S. Senate when the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 passed unanimously in Congress. That act, passed in response to questions raised by the 1991 Oliver Stone film “JFK,” set up an independent review board to collect all government files that might have bearing on the assassination and make them public. Most records were released between 1994 and 1998. Only the most sensitive classified documents remain confidential...

The White House declined to comment on the record, issuing a background statement saying that “the National Archives advised that their review of classified material was severely hampered by COVID-19 since classified material cannot be reviewed remotely and asked for more time.” The coronavirus first hit the U.S. in early 2020, more than 27 years after the JFK Records Act passed and more than 56 years after Kennedy was shot on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas.
Blaming the delay on coronavirus...

6 comments:

  1. So, someone who was involved, but who has not been the subject of any public speculation, isn't dead yet. Whoever it is, assuming they were at least 30 at the time, is at least 88 today. Who?

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  2. You will all have to go through the same thing again in 2051, when the sensitive documents about the Twin Towers collapse are not released.
    Lol, the heaviest defended country in the world let's a few large commercial aeroplanes fly around haphazardly and off route for a few hours.
    And then again in 2071 when the U.S. Airforce defers from explaining why their onboard cameras lenses are of such poor quality.
    Don't get me started about Bigfoot using Ivermectin.

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  3. I suppose I could understand if there were some foreign power involved, since a release of the records could cause an outcry against that nation, perhaps provoking some to unleash military or economic measures.

    But, so help me, if it's to shield OUR OWN AGENCIES (e.g., CIA, etc.), then it's not only an outrage, but every person still living who was involved should be tried for treason (just as we still go after old Nazis). I wonder if we are waiting until the right people die off?

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  4. Someone in the security detail accidentally or recklessly discharged a firearm, greatly complicating the investigation. Not dead yet.

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    1. Everyone who was directly involved or knew about this (below), at the official level, would have to be dead before all information could be released--best explanation for withholding of files: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Error#Reception

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