Posted on 10/21/2017 7:24:25 AM PDT by markomalley
President Trump said Saturday morning he will allow the release of the classified files related to former President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
"Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened," Trump tweeted.
Trump's announcement counters a report that predicted the president was likely going to block the release of some of the documents by the National Archives, which citing pressure from the CIA over possibly harmful national security information being revealed.
Still, White House spokesperson Lindsay Walters told Politico Magazine that the Trump administratioin was trying "to ensure that the maximum amount of data can be released to the public.
The deadline for the National Archives to release the 3,100 documents, primarily from the CIA and FBI, is Oct. 26. The date was established by the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which was signed into law by former President George H.W. Bush in an attempt to minimize conspiracy theories about Kennedy's death.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., led a group of bipartisan lawmakers urging Trump earlier this month to allow full access to the classified documents.
"Transparency in government is critical not only to ensuring accountability; it's also essential to understanding our nation's history," Grassley said in a statement. "The assassination of President Kennedy occurred at a pivotal time for our nation, and nearly 54 years later, we are still learning the details of how our government responded and what it may have known beforehand. Americans deserve a full picture of what happened that fateful day in November 1963. Shining a light on never-before-seen government records is essential to filling in these blank spaces in our history."
President Trump is usually quite correct. I dont think he would have said that if he wasnt very sure about the veracity.
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Good point.
Next...9-11 report with supporting documents that were hidden!!!
>> I am tired of conspiracy miscreants like Oliver Stone pointing the figure at everyone except Lee Oswald.<<
So you’re certain LHO was a lone-wolf assassin? Well last I heard the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded in 1979 that Kennedy was “probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy”.
LHO was a Patsy. IMO
oops sorry about that..yep momincombatboots.
That gets my vote for POTD!
Do you have a source for that quote? I’d like to use it on FB once in a while.
Well with all due respect what you think and what is happening are two different things. There is not one inch complete and the heart for dreamer in chief is putting American kids behind the line.
The general public continues to believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation is an independent and honest investigative agency that never succumbs to political pressure, but the facts dont bear that out. While J. Edgar Hoover, its original director, was a staunch anti-Communist and forged the FBI into a powerful and efficient investigative body he himself became corrupt and used the power of the Bureau to control politicians in order to keep them from revealing his homosexual lifestyle. His final act, however, that forever discredited his legacy was his participation in the massive government cover-up of the JFK assassination. Since then the Bureau has, like the CIA, formed a secret dark side that acts as an enforcer for those behind the scenes that control the US government. While most FBI agents are honest and try to follow the law, they are mostly unaware of this dark side within the bureau. Its not their fault. The dark side is carefully compartmentalized and hidden from normal agents. In order to control both the white side and the dark side, however, every FBI director since Hoover has been an insider......
COPIED FROM WORLD AFFAIRS BRIEF
Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, who defected in 1978 from Romania has written several books on Soviet involvement with Oswald in general and the KGB in particular.
Also the retired KGB officer Vasily Mitrokhin, helped by the British MI6, smuggled documents into the west. They show how the Soviet KGB, along with the block countries intelligence organizations supported disinformation efforts to shift the blame from Russia to US government agencies.
And, the CIA would not ever be involved in deflecting any guilt concerning their direct involvement in the murder of the President who interferes with the Bay of Pigs Operation & signed an E. O. pulling the US Special Forces advisers out of Vietnam during the war build up phase.....?
No, no disinformation involved.....never happens!
Read Judyth Vary Bakers book Me & Lee for real historic background behind the CIAs attitude toward JFK & LHOs attempt to warn the DEEP STATE of an assassination plot he discovered from his position as a Long-term CIA operative.
From 50 years ago?
The only harm is that it's going to expose a bunch of people who don't want to be exposed.
A bunch of confusion and blaming civil rights gobbledegook was the perfect excuse for doing nothing in response to Cubas actions...which could have kicked off an even bigger war with Russia.
Thats just my personal theory.
I agree with you. I think that the files will not show any pertinent details of the assassination. Instead, a careful reading of these files will show the coverup activity.
The people managing the investigation believed that the evidence would point back to either Castro or Russia. The SWAMP of that era did not want either of these results. Thus, they probably stymied the investigation itself in order to guarantee that no evidence would be found.
There had to be "no evidence found" since they could not depend on a fully compliant FBI to suppress uncovered information.
The papers being released will, at best, show the efforts expended to suppress information and dry up leads without proper follow up. An analysis today of those papers is going to be pretty dry and is not likely to result in anything which can be turned into a good movie.
We may never know what a proper investigation would have revealed. We may only be able to ascertain what scared the handlers at the time and they were probably only guessing.
The fact that the FBI agent assigned to Oswald didn't know where he was working so the Secret Service could be notified is a real problem, not CIA misinformation.
Completely discredited nonsense.....Oswald was a poor marksman for a Marine, neither the FBI nor the Israelis best snipers could reproduce the shooting which was pinned on Oswald.....
Were you doing any reporting for the MSM in Las Vegas lately, by the way?
Oh, and are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist party?
Showed what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do.
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