Posted on 05/29/2025 4:00:43 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Judicial Watch announced today that in a report to the court in its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) stated it “cannot fully predict” when records about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy will be released. The National Archives estimates that there are “over six million pages” of responsive records.
Judicial Watch filed the February 2025 lawsuit after the National Archives failed to respond to a January 20, 2025, FOIA request (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. National Archives and Records Administration (1:25-cv-00577)). Judicial Watch sued for:
All previously unreleased records in the possession of the National Archives and Records Administration regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This request includes, but is not limited to, all records transferred to NARA by the Assassination Records Review Board.
The National Archives states in a “joint status report” to the court:
[National Archives] cannot fully predict when records responsive to Judicial Watch’s FOIA request will be released online because of the volume of material, the complexity of the digitization process, and the remaining restrictions on access such as grand jury and court sealed information, taxpayer information protected by 26 U.S.C. § 6103, deeded materials, and intellectual property. [National Archives] will continue to work diligently to process [Judicial Watch’s] request and post records online on a rolling basis.
Additionally, fulfilling [Judicial Watch’s] request for records of the ARRB [Assassination Records Review Board] itself will be labor intensive. The [Assassination Records Review Board] records are part of the JFK Collection but do not meet the definition of an “assassination record” within the statute…. These records, which have not previously been fully reviewed for public release, must be digitized and reviewed line-by-line for FOIA exemptions.
Judicial Watch and the National Archives propose updating the court as to the status of the processing of records on or before July 28, 2025.
On January 19, 2025, then President-Elect Donald Trump announced his intention to make public the “remaining records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.” On January 23, an executive order was issued to that effect:
More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events. Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay.
The National Archives claims that since January 23, 2025, it has posted approximately 80,000 pages of responsive records online.
“The National Archives needs speed up the release of the Kennedy records! At this rate, it will be decades before the files even partly are made available to the American people,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
Judicial Watch has several FOIA cases pending against the National Archives.
In January 2024, a FOIA lawsuit uncovered records from the National Archives that showed then-Vice President Joe Biden’s use of an email alias to correspond with family members, including son Hunter and brother James; and that Joe Biden signed off on the cessation of Secret Service protection for Hunter Biden and Beau Biden’s daughter Natalie during an August 2016 trip to Kosovo.
In August 2023, Judicial Watch sued the National Archives for records of its role in President Trump’s White House records controversy; whether it offered Trump a secure storage location other than the National Archives; and if the Archives consulted with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence regarding the classification or declassification procedures of any of the alleged classified documents found at Trump’s Florida residence.
In August 2022, Judicial Watch uncovered that, as of March 31, the National Archives had released only 1,276 pages of over 8,000 records about the unprecedented document dispute and raid on the home of former President Trump. Click here or here to review the records.
In October 2022, Judicial Watch sued the Barak Obama Presidential Library for Obama White House records about the 2016 “Russia Collusion Hoax.” The records, which by law were not available under FOIA until five years after President Obama left office, are held at the library, which is part of the National Archives system.
Who is alive, that was involved, that needs to be protected still?
This was 60 years ago. The youngest possible age where there is involvement is going to be about 80 years old.
One good thing about AI is that it will be able to dig through huge files like this and provide useful information—as long as the correct questions are asked or guidance given.
AI would be a great tool for declassification in general. Give it criteria and let it rip....
It’s an agency under the Executive Branch for God’s sake!
Institutions and governments are very much alive...hint, hint, hint...
Unfortunately, the CIA and Deep State are still very much alive.
That’s who needs to be protected.
You’re assuming everything is digitized.
The Zapruder film tells us that the government did it. It has been altered to death. No need for alterations if a “lone nut” did it. We
Maybe we need a thousand little robots with scanners.
Lol.
FIRE THEM ALL.
They probably never imagined in 1964 that the JFK assassination would still be a big deal 61 years later. They thought that, by now, no one would care anymore.
The main players are indeed dead. But the problem for the Deep State is how it will further tarnish the (already tarnished) institutions.
300 tears later, in the ruins of Washington, they will find the JFK files.
What they’re telling you is that you don’t matter and they don’t care.
Who is alive? The CIA and Joint Chiefs as an entity, the FBI as an entity.
This isn’t about protecting a person. It’s about not admitting to the American people that Kennedy was deposed in a violent coup. And that leads to some very uncomfortable questions about those who took the reins of government in the following decades.
Maybe by the Twelfth of Never. But we might need a few more weeks.
The fact that they will not release the records 62 years later tell you all you need to know. Imagine it being 1928 and the government keeps a veil of secrecy over the Lincoln assassination.
A Junta of the joint chiefs, CIA and FBI collaborated. They hired mafia hitman with the lure of getting their lucrative Cuban operations back on track.
ALOT OF PAPER & INK TO TELL LIES & COVER UP
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