Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
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And that's not the objective of the task force.
It's to specifically expose what the government was doing if they knew about the potential threats.
And people say, well, why do we care about โ I constantly get, well, we shouldn't care about this.
No, you should because there has to be a check and balance.
And when you know if the CIA was operating outside the purview of the federal government, if you know that whistleblowers are being punished, if there needs to be reformed to โ
to the FOIA Act, all this stuff, then we have to be able to put forward legislation to ensure it doesn't happen again.
And what's been very interesting and almost serendipitous about the whole JFK investigation is you have President Trump now in the second term that's released all this information.
And multiple presidents tried to, but they were worked against by their own secretaries within these agencies themselves.
and then deep-sea actors that try to block the efforts for release.
Now you're seeing kind of a flush of the system.
And even though information hasn't come out as fast as we would like it to, the fact that they've made these admissions is really good.
But moving forward into how do you prevent this from happening again, people really do, like young people especially, because there's so much fatigue for people that have been in office.
And the reason I say I don't even want to do this for the next 10 years is because
Everyone, even people I've looked up to, after a certain amount of time, they lose their edge.
And I think that that's because like you're up there, you're taking in a lot of incoming.
It's not a fun job.
Like you're getting attacked, like you're getting beat down.
It's stressful.
But if you can put all your energy in it now and then you can cut ties and pass it on, that's how our founding fathers wanted us to do is like pass the torch, stand up the next generation.