Jefferson Morley
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So then those records were identified by the JFK Assassination Review Board in the 1990s, which did a great job of obtaining and declassifying a million pages of JFK records. So we've had a huge advance in historical knowledge since the 1990s. And what that showed us was the existence of other JFK records that the review board never knew about. often because the CIA deceived them.
So we need a capacity to get those records that are in the National Archives right now, but we also need to go out and get the records that are known to exist that are not yet in that collection. So there's two big bodies of records that are out there, and a serious declassification effort will get both of them.
CIA and FBI, yes. And other agencies, too.
You know, when we start seeing documents, it's pretty easy to establish some benchmarks about, you know, what are the most important records. And, you know, we will see in both categories have those documents come into the record. So if we monitor the process, we should be able to say, is this serious or not? You know, I think that, you know, the president has ordered a plan in 15 days.
I don't think that means we're going to get documents in 15 days. And so, you know, but if we don't get documents within 30 days of the plan, then you got to start saying this thing has been taken, has gone off the rails.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
I think the only explanation is that the CIA has something to hide and they'd rather be seen as defying the law than releasing the information. I mean, that tells you something right there. And, you know, we can go into the specifics of, you know, some of the key documents that are out there that are important to be produced soon.
But until that happens, you know, we can't be sure that it's going to happen.
Yes. I mean, the documents that I'm talking about in the National Archives collection, I mean, they're in the possession of National Archives today. They could go get them this afternoon. The documents that are not yet in the collection, those are known to exist and, I mean, known to exist, you know, as of recently. So...
You know, if they're not produced, if we find evidence they've been destroyed, then we have pretty good evidence that, you know, that the cover up is continuing. But these are documents that are known to exist. This isn't a fishing expedition. This is a search for JFK records that have not been put on the public record by the CIA and the FBI.
Yeah. And, you know, it was interesting to me that in Ratcliffe's confirmation hearings, he was not asked about JFK files, which makes me think that it's not a priority of Tom Cotton and the Senate Intelligence Committee. It seemed like they were staying away from the subject.
You know, which, like you noted, had been central to the idea that Amaryllis Fox might take a job at the CIA to oversee this. You know, so, you know, there's got to be a commitment from Radcliffe to make sure that this happens. And I don't think that he's ever said anything by JFK files. You may know differently, but I've never seen anything. So he has no position as far as I can tell.
Yeah.
Well, it's just... I know from the news reports that RFK Jr. floated the idea of having her go to CIA and kind of oversee the process to get to the bottom of the JFK assassination was the quote that I saw. So... You know, you need to have a bureaucratic point person to ride herd on this because the agencies are going to be very reluctant. So that's a good idea.
You know, whether it's her, I mean, a former CIA officer, that's somebody who would be qualified, who knows that building and would be able to do that. Somebody else could do it as well. But you are going to need a point person. The way it's set up now, it looks like NSC advisor Mike Walls will probably be the point person along with the attorney general.
So as that takes shape, you know, that's a key thing is what's the real commitment to ride herd on this as opposed to just issue a piece of paper and then let the bureaucracy do what it does?
Yeah.
You know, I don't know those records as well, but the fact that they're secret, I mean, you know, we don't need to argue about the conclusions. The point is we need the records and then we can have an informed debate. But right now we have no informed debate, especially about MLK, but even about JFK and RFK. We don't have all the records.
So, you know, the CIA is very good and its allies in the establishment media are very good at, That's right. That's right.
If we get the documents that I'm talking about, that will not be a credible narrative. And let me cite a couple of examples, Tucker, because this isn't a fishing expedition. OK, so in one of the key documents that's still redacted, unbelievably, in my view, is a memo that Arthur Schlesinger wrote to JFK after the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy was very disillusioned with the CIA.
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