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."
It will be more redacted than Hillary’s emails.
Old man Bush signed it in 1992 thinking he’d be dead by now.
How about completing every inch of the wall before your heart for the dreamers amnesty instead.
Seriously political theatre. Nothing better to do? Wow.
BFD.
I want the Uranium coverup to stop.
Yesterday.
This is a strike by Trump at the CIA/NSA.
Isn’t it interesting that the CIA and FBI is concerned about national security from 57 years ago but not concerned about Hillary and Huma sending classified emails on yahoo.
Maybe it will detail Arlen Specters role in investigating it.
Your golden boy lost the primaries; get over it.
Oswald was a dedicated communist who had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 out of disgust with American capitalism.
After becoming disillusioned with Soviet life, he returned to the U.S. in 1962. In early 1963, he bought a scoped rifle through the mail and soon used it to fire a shot (which missed) at retired general Edwin Walker, the head of the John Birch Society in Dallas. In the summer of 1963, Oswald was active in street demonstrations in support of Castro. In September 1963, he visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City seeking a travel visa that would allow him to travel to Cuba.
Oswald was among the radicals of the time who saw Third World revolutionaries like Castro as the wave of the communist future. He was well aware of Kennedy's efforts to overthrow Castro's regime. As a Senate investigative committee suggested in 1975, Oswald shot Kennedy to interrupt his administration's plans to assassinate Castro or to overthrow his regime in Cuba.
Ignoring Oswald's communist links, journalists and political leaders quickly claimed the president was a martyr to civil rights. Earl Warren said that Kennedy had "suffered martyrdom as a result of the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots." Martin Luther King said the assassination had to be viewed against the backdrop of violence against civil rights marchers in the South. James Reston wrote in the New York Times that "something in the nation itself, some strain of madness and violence, had destroyed the highest symbol of law and order."
The consensus opinion was that Kennedy was a victim of hate and bigotry, a casualty of his support for civil rights. The Cold War and Kennedy's ongoing feud with Castro were rarely mentioned as factors behind the assassination. The reasons? Mrs. Kennedy wanted her husband remembered as a modern-day Abraham Lincoln. Lyndon Johnson feared complicating relations with the Soviet Union. Liberals feared a replay of the McCarthy period, when the Wisconsin senator inflamed public opinion about fears of domestic communism.
From what I have read about these records, it may be weeks before anything significant is known, because this is raw data with CIA terminology and acronyms that people will have to figure out. Also, references to people and places which will not be obvious at first reading as to their significance. My guess is there will be as much or more obfuscation as there is clarity.
I would like no redaction and full disclosure of every and all documents. I am tired of conspiracy miscreants like Oliver Stone pointing the figure at everyone except Lee Oswald.
Yep, that’s what I wonder. What items in there are so sensitive, that they will be censored? Have they reviewed these documents to see what bombshells might be in them, prior to release? I have a feeling they have done so.
I’ve been curious for a long time. I hope the release has material addressing this: On the night he was arrested Oswald attempted to place a call at 11:30 through the Dallas County Jail switchboard. The FBI instructed the switchboard operator to not make the call and advise Oswald that nobody answered. The number was to a home on Capital Boulevard in Raleigh, North Carolina that was the address of a CIA Operative.
What was up with that? Very suspicious to me.
JohnEBoy wrote: “From what I have read about these records, it may be weeks before anything significant is known, because this is raw data with CIA terminology and acronyms that people will have to figure out.”
I predict it will take less than two weeks before the conspiracy types start demanding that the government release the “real files”. You know, the ones that prove their favorite theory.
Another thread different source if anyone cares to scan thru the comments
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3597158/posts
I Will Be Allowing, As President, The Long Blocked And Classified JFK FILES To Be Opened.
Good point.
How about completing every inch of the wall before your heart for the dreamers amnesty instead.
Seriously political theatre. Nothing better to do? Wow.
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Guess what? We actually have a President who can do multiple things at the same time. He doesn’t NEED to finish one thing before starting another and, in this case, it’s not even a question of starting something - just not blocking it.
Sounds to me like you’re simply anti-Trump - in which case you’re on the wrong board.
Calm now, storm coming?
I can’t imagine anything from 1963 being more harmful to national security than the things that are going on right now, today.
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