Biden delays JFK Files release

[Jon Banks]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-delays-release-of-secret-jfk-assassination-files

President Joe Biden ordered yet another delay in the release of secret files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy yet to see the light of day more than 50 years after his death.

A White House memo, signed by Biden, said "[t]emporary continued postponement is necessary to protect against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure."

[Rick Plant]

Trump boasted he’d open all JFK files, but now says he can’t
January 8, 2021

Donald Trump boasted last fall that he would open all remaining John F. Kennedy assassination records. So far, Trump hasn’t made good on the “great transparency” he promised then.

Trump announced on Thursday that the public must wait another three years or more before seeing material that must remain classified for national security reasons — more than five decades after Kennedy was killed Nov. 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.

https://apnews.com/article/2f48d57f9ee045d98eb784d2295288ef

[Charles Collins]

 

[Richard Smith]

Trump boasted he’d open all JFK files, but now says he can’t
January 8, 2021

Donald Trump boasted last fall that he would open all remaining John F. Kennedy assassination records. So far, Trump hasn’t made good on the “great transparency” he promised then.

Trump announced on Thursday that the public must wait another three years or more before seeing material that must remain classified for national security reasons — more than five decades after Kennedy was killed Nov. 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.

https://apnews.com/article/2f48d57f9ee045d98eb784d2295288ef

Yes, it is Trump's fault that Biden didn't release these files.  Give it a rest. 

[Martin Weidmann]

Yes, it is Trump's fault that Biden didn't release these files.  Give it a rest.

Where did Rick Plant say that?

[Martin Weidmann]

A far more interesting question to ask is, what could be so sensitive after nearly sixty years, that it still might be harmfull to military defense, intelligence operations and law enforcement? 

We're talking about a simple "open and shut" case of a lone nut with a rifle killing Kennedy, right?

Or are we?

[Bill Chapman]

Yes, it is Trump's fault that Biden didn't release these files.  Give it a rest.

Simple enough to figure out. It's neither of their faults. It involves national security, including the possibility of retribution by the various 'players'.

[Jon Banks]

A far more interesting question to ask is, what could be so sensitive after nearly sixty years, that it still might be harmfull to military defense, intelligence operations and law enforcement? 

We're talking about a simple "open and shut" case of a lone nut with a rifle killing Kennedy, right?

Or are we?

I doubt that there’s a smoking gun hidden in the files but I don’t buy that National Security secrets from over 50 years ago threaten current National Security operations.

My guess is that some files will show the extent to which the CIA and other agencies lied to the Warren Commission and other investigators…