JFK Assassination Expert Reacts to Trump’s Effort to Declassify Files, and What You Should Expect
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I mean, those of us who've been calling for the release of these records for more than a decade, this is a great and promising moment. But there's still pitfalls ahead. And I want to emphasize that, you know, this is not something that can be done with the stroke of a pen. The powers of these secret agencies are strong and we actually kind of see their influence even on Trump's statement. So it's important to know what we've learned in the recent past, kind of the context of these latest developments, and what is possible under this order. But a lot is now possible. So that's a great development.
Thank you for saying that, because it's it is complicated. I mean, a president can come in and say, as this president just did, I want to see the documents and I want the public to see the documents. But there's a distance between that and seeing the documents. So if you wouldn't mind walking us through what the process is for getting this material.
So the president's order orders a plan within 15 days from four top officials, two of whom are acting and two of whom are Trump appointees, to come up with a plan for declassification. In the president's order, section three of the president's order contains a loophole, which to me could be interpreted as saying the CIA director could overrule any decision that comes out of this declassification effort. That's a pretty big loophole that needs to be plugged or disavowed because the agencies cannot have final control over the release of this material, right? They've been resisting full disclosure since the day President Kennedy died. That's the day that the CIA's lies began. CIA officials began lying about what they knew about Lee Harvey Oswald within hours of President Kennedy's murder. And they've been obfuscating, lying, deceiving, covering up, evading ever since.
So that kind of bureaucratic behavior, it's not going to stop just because President Trump said something on a piece of paper. They are going to continue to fight a rearguard war. effort to prevent full disclosure of CIA records related to President Kennedy's assassination. So we need to be vigilant. We need to identify the documents are important and set some benchmarks to show, is this effort really obtaining the results? Is it really going to be successful at obtaining full JFK disclosure?
So you've got the perspective on this question. How many times has the Congress, for example, or previous administrations called for disclosure of these documents? This is not the first time.
No, the 1992 JFK Records Act passed unanimously by Congress. Think of that, right? When's the last time Congress passed something unanimously? That law said that all JFK records had to be made public within 25 years, except in the rarest of circumstances. That was the language. So 25 years after 1992, 2017, that deadline arrived. It came to President Trump. And he caved into the CIA's demands for continuing secrecy. So that was a very clear expression of the will of the people and the will of Congress. And they've just blown the deadline. They don't really care to be seen. They don't care that people see them violating the law around JFK records.
Yes, clearly they don't. And, you know, they violated even more basic law when they apparently participated in the murder of a sitting president. So, I mean, these are lawless. These are lawless agencies, obviously. But where are these documents? Do you have any idea?
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