[markomalley]

Good. About time.

[AlanGreenSpam]

FYI all - Before speculating about Trump wanting to expose the CIA or other motives, you should realize that the date of Oct 26, 2017 was already in place as the date to release the information.

So Trump is merely responding to this.

[Impy]

Good! There was talk that he might not though for the life of me I see no rationale not to.

[ExpatCanuck]

This is a shot across the Bush’s bow. They’ve started to get vocal in their opposition to Trump. You can bet Trump knows what’s in the docs and it does not put senior Bush in a good light. As another poster noted Bush Jr. signed the law blocking the docs until now, likely thinking dad would be dead by now and nothing would be released. Just a guess. Every card Trump has played so far on matters like this (notwithstanding the obstructionism from establishment Republicans on health care and the wall and immigration), he has come out with a winning hand. Perhaps McCain will fade away soon too (not literally, but that seems inevitable) with the promise of a state funeral and a preserved legacy. You can bet Trump has dirt on him too.

[SisterK]

They have had fifty years to doctor/recreate the documents.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Fake news. There was no stated reason why Trump wouldn’t authorize the JFK files released. The Left was trying to create a “fake scandal” by claiming that Trump wasn’t going to release the documents.

This is how the anti-Trump, often Marxist media and organizations work. Create a “fake news story” and then feed upon it for raising funds and attacking the President.

It would be nice to know who “those” people are who said that the President WASN’T going to let the JFK documents be released. Might find some of the old familiar hardcore Leftists amongst them

[HLPhat]

Nothing New Under the Aten!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vr-EKwC8YU

[rrrod]

Next...9-11 report with supporting documents that were hidden!!!

[metmom]

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.

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.

[Impala64ssa]

A small but strange tidbit surrounding the JFK assassination controversy

The Lincoln Kennedy rode in on that fateful day in Dallas is a 1961 model according to the VIN, but had same grille the 1962 Lincolns had.The grilles on the 1961 Lincolns more closely resembled the grilles on the T-birds

Many years ago there was an article in Hemmings Motor News about a retired mechanic who worked at the US Gov't Inter-agency Motor Pool at the garage in DC. He said he recalled this car was involved in an accident that caused minor front end damage some time before it was sent to Dallas, but there was no accident report filed. A typical gov't oversight?

[Impala64ssa]

The Secret Service agents following JFK's limo were riding in brand new 64 Chevy Impalas, similar to mine

UH OH! Mine's not an SS like these cars and I was only 7, coming home from school in daBronx at that moment, I SWEAR! But what do i know and when did I know it?

[gunnyg]

The following opening remark of an article I received this morning...predickable!
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“Last Friday, President Trump made the following announcement:

I have decided not to block release of the CIA’s remaining JFK-assassination related records except for those records that directly implicate the CIA in the assassination, which will continue to remain secret.”

Okay, he didn’t really put it like that. But that’s the potential and likely import of his announcement, which actually read as follows:

Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened.” (Italics added.)

The operative words, of course, are: “Subject to the receipt of further information….”

What is going on here?”