Posted on 10/26/2017 2:00:28 PM PDT by maggief
The U.S. government was in danger Thursday of missing the deadline to release a trove of previously classified records from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, adding an unexpected twist to a saga already rife with rumors and conspiracies.
The National Archives needs the official approval of President Donald Trump to begin releasing the 35,000 documents online and meet a deadline to divulge the papers set by Congress 25 years ago by The John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act.
But as of Thursday afternoon, the memo specifying which material the CIA, State Department and other agencies still want to keep under wraps had not made it to Trump’s desk, U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.
“There’s a mad scramble going on in the executive branch to get this done,” one official told NBC News.
The CIA is asking only for some redactions, not for all the documents to be held, the official said. But the other agencies involved in the process have not yet finished their submissions.
So only a handful of documents were expected to be released on Thursday, not the entire batch, officials told NBC News.
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Are you sure?
A new report says Paul Manafort and the Podesta group mediated the uranium deal between Russia and the Obama administration.
sorry, wrong quote/thread...
Something meaningful like that Kennedy's Lincoln was fueled with regular, not premium, on the day of the shooting.
You are privy to the details in those 35,000 documents?
Only a few people, but the two political parties from back then are still around, and one is many times more likely to be involved than the other.
Yeah, seems kinda odd.
Good. Hold onto the files for now. I don’t want the lib media to have another excuse to bury the uranium one and all the fresh Clinton/Obama scandals. Those files ain’t goin’ nowhere.
there might be a few still agents still alive.
Like Bush Sr.?
“For one thing, we know what the files are even if we can’t read them.”
No, we may know what the name or a short description of the files are, but we can’t possibly know exactly what the contents are unless we can actually read them.
“For another, there are people that have read them and they’ve said so.”
Oh, great, why don’t we just let these people read all the files for us and save us the trouble or releasing them at all then? I’m sure we can trust them to tell us if there is anything really juicy. It’s not like anyone associated with the government would ever lie to the public or anything.
That's the thing. This is only about a few details. Many people are under the impression this is about releasing all of the records that were sealed in 1963. It isn't. Almost all of those were released in the 90s. This is only about a few details that were withheld for privacy and security issues.
I wouldn’t be too certain of that. If something was covered up, then Gerald Ford and Arlen Specter were probably involved in it, and they weren’t Democrats.
Which doesn't contradict what I said.
"It’s not like anyone associated with the government would ever lie to the public or anything."
Yet not everyone associated with the government lies all the time either. The fact is, if there were a big secret remaining in these files the very people who have read them would say there was and want them to get out, or say there isn't and want them to be hidden. But what they are saying is that there isn't one, and they want them to be released.
It's irrational to assume that everything is a plot. Some things are what they are.
Just heard from someone on the White House conference call. 2,800 documents will be released immediately.
To be fair, it was the deputy national security advisor who figured out the USSR was ripe to fall, and that with a push, they could go all the way.
The CIA fought Reagan on it pretty much all the way.
The FBI and CIA are worried how this might reflect on their credibility, as if they had some.
The remainder will be delayed until April 26. Agencies will have until March 12 to make their objections.
the only thing I could see redacting is any retired intelligence asset still living on foreign soil. I don’t think there are to many agents from the 60s still active.
George Herbert Walker Bush is still very much alive. He and his Operation Mongoose team killed Kennedy.
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