Posted on 10/18/2021 10:10:41 AM PDT by bitt
President Biden faces many well-publicized deadlines. But there’s one that has flown under most everyone’s radar. Biden has less than a month to make a decision about still-withheld records on one of the most consequential murders of the 20th century.
Nearly 30 years ago, Congress unanimously passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, a landmark moment in the fight against government secrecy. In the ensuing years, many documents were handed over to the National Archives, surprising and thrilling skeptics of big government.
But the euphoria soon died down. Some of the more sensitive documents were either produced with countless redactions or withheld completely, and in the years following the 1998 disbandment of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) — the entity tasked by Congress to facilitate the collection of the actual records — the flow of assassination material slowed to a trickle.
With Congressional oversight lacking, there was little incentive for any of these agencies, the CIA and FBI in particular, to finish their legally required review, and several thousand files were still classified to some degree as a 2017 deadline approached.
While many of these files were handed over to the National Archives, some of them quite interesting, thousands still contained redactions, or were held back in full. And then they were delayed even further, until a new deadline was set: October 26, 2021.
According to the National Archives website, nearly 16,000 documents remain partially redacted, most created by the CIA and FBI. With nearly six decades having passed since Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas, this continued secrecy runs contrary to the expressed intent of the JFK Records Act.
JFK’s murder and the Warren Commission’s tawdry investigation of it are frequently cited as the origin of the downward spiral of Americans’ trust in their institutions, along with the Pentagon Papers and Watergate.
If Biden wants to help restore the American people’s faith in government and its institutions in general, it’s hard to imagine a better opportunity than the one he has this October. He can start building a legacy for his administration as one that promotes governmental openness at a time when the very idea of objective truth faces an uncertain future.
In a recent letter to the White House, a number of lawyers pressured him to do the right thing. These attorneys, including noted Washington whistleblower representative Mark Zaid, point out that none other than Biden himself said in an early press release: “My administration has no greater task than restoring faith in American government.”
Below, we are republishing a succinct summary of the JFK Records Act (along with some annotations) and its “deadlines” that have come and gone because of stonewalling by federal agencies that are supposed to be subject to its enforcement. It was written by Mark E. Adamczyk, an attorney who for the past 20 years has been studying the JFK assassination and related history.
Adamczyk highlights the looming deadline for the release of the JFK records by the National Archives, outlines Biden’s responsibilities as defined by the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act and urges readers to join him in writing a letter to the president asking him to follow the requirements of the law.
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He’ll forget.
Wouldn’t want to heighten concern about the depths of corruption in “The Deep State” now would we?
Were the MLK docs ever fully released?........................
When the Deep State “releases” documents they black out all of the important stuff—even if all the “protected names” are long dead and the “sources and methods” are carrier pigeons.
Total joke.
Why would the authors think that Biden wants to restore the public’s faith in the federal government? Biden just wants the people to obey without questioning...if the people know that the government is lying to them, and they know there is nothing they can do about it, so much the better.
Does the pope sh@#@ in the woods?
Would any of these documents provide evidence that the CIA is capable and willing to remove presidents that they don’t like? And install presidents that they like better?
If so, I suppose the deadline will be extended again.
The Keepers of the Truth
Funniest line of the week “Joe Biden making a decision”
We can’t get any records of consequence. Even while DJT was POTUS these agencies refuse to turn over many reports and records. Nothing has happened to anyone. Why would Biden be concerned.
Our government loves secrecy. The citizenry seems to have an endless capacity to tolerate the use of protective barriers put up by the very bureaucracy it pays for. Very strange.
It matters not what Biden decides, or even if he decides.
The Deep State will do only what it wants to do.
They run the show.
says that the DS destroyed many records anyway..
The DS also has a penchant for losing documents.
The “Deep State” uses their propaganda organs to howl “conspiracy theory, you can’t prove it” while the Deep State is busy shredding documents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWWHBPy1bCk&t=5261s
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U40cXOkoTjQ
and
https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKhomeD.htm?fbclid=IwAR3ToYK5AXaedH3FOM9BIJma6rDMOXBxnHeuiQM6h2gAfB1l0MiwzomSY5E
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