withholding thousands of JFK assassination files from public view

4-30-2019     I awaited the promise of the JFK Records Act of 1992:  full disclosure.  The law, passed unanimously by Congress, mandated the release of all of the government’s JFK files within 25 years, that is to say, by 2017.  The promise, alas, was betrayed by President Trump.  He used the one loophole provided in the law, allowing for continued postponement of release of assassination records.  Trump, the conspiracy theorist, certified that disclosure would cause “an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement or conduct of foreign relations” and that “the identifiable harm is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.”

  In his October 2017 White House directive Trump stated he had “no choice” (curious phrase) but to allow federal agencies to continue to withhold thousands of JFK assassination files from public view– including the Joannides files.  In April 2018 the National Archives reported that 15,834 assassination records remain redacted, most of them by CIA and FBI.  These files will remain sealed until April 2021 at the earliest      https://www.justsecurity.org/63826/jfk-records-suit-tests-cia-secrecy-on-assassination/

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 Mark Prophet told some of us that JFK was killed “because he stood up to the Russians.”     -r, mt. shasta