by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
It's one of those cases where the real news was buried in the footnotes. After nearly fifty-four years since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the government was finally set to release the remaining "secret" documents related to one of the most memorable crimes of the twentieth century. Congress, in fact, passed a law in 1992 mandating that the documents be released in no more than twenty-five years. The deadline was yesterday, and the result was far from an adherence to the law.
Trump had been trumpeting the imminent release of the secret documents for several days. He personally was going to turn over those files to America. Big Daddy was about to take some significant action. But, of course, at the last minute Trump clutched.
Thousands of documents did make their way to public light, and America will be fascinated with learning more about the intricacies and possible conspiracies that were hidden in their pages. It will also be intriguing to see what has been withheld and then mulling on the possible reasons that those facts were chosen to be hidden from public view. There is so much to sift through and ponder.
But other things have been learned from this historic document dump. It has been revealed, for example, that some papers and files have "disappeared" over the years. How does that happen with documents supposedly under the control of the National Archives, the same agency responsible for protecting our Declaration of Independence and the original Constitution?
Another thing that we have learned in the last day is that the CIA and FBI are still focused on keeping parts of the files on the JFK assassination secret from their employers - the American people. Due to badgering from those two agencies, Trump has extended the deadline for release on some documents for 180 days to give the CIA and FBI more time to comb through the papers and further redact information in them.
Two questions: First, the CIA and FBI have had more than half a century to clean up their mess and redact facts. Why this sudden last minute push to purge? And second, what in the hell can possibly exist in those files that still needs to be hidden from Americans fifty-four years later. Are some of the sources of information still alive and require protecting? That is laughable on its face. Tell us who they are and let the journalists have at them - for the sake of illuminating and preserving history. Or, as has been widely implied, are these papers being kept secret to protect the methods that intelligence agencies use? If the CIA and FBI are using intelligence-gathering techniques that are more than half-a-century old, well . . . that explains a lot about the state of foreign intelligence today and the reason for wars that never end.
The JFK assassination documents belong to America. Trump and the "intelligence" agencies need to quit playing games and follow the law. Release the damned files - all of them!
Citizen Journalist
It's one of those cases where the real news was buried in the footnotes. After nearly fifty-four years since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the government was finally set to release the remaining "secret" documents related to one of the most memorable crimes of the twentieth century. Congress, in fact, passed a law in 1992 mandating that the documents be released in no more than twenty-five years. The deadline was yesterday, and the result was far from an adherence to the law.
Trump had been trumpeting the imminent release of the secret documents for several days. He personally was going to turn over those files to America. Big Daddy was about to take some significant action. But, of course, at the last minute Trump clutched.
Thousands of documents did make their way to public light, and America will be fascinated with learning more about the intricacies and possible conspiracies that were hidden in their pages. It will also be intriguing to see what has been withheld and then mulling on the possible reasons that those facts were chosen to be hidden from public view. There is so much to sift through and ponder.
But other things have been learned from this historic document dump. It has been revealed, for example, that some papers and files have "disappeared" over the years. How does that happen with documents supposedly under the control of the National Archives, the same agency responsible for protecting our Declaration of Independence and the original Constitution?
Another thing that we have learned in the last day is that the CIA and FBI are still focused on keeping parts of the files on the JFK assassination secret from their employers - the American people. Due to badgering from those two agencies, Trump has extended the deadline for release on some documents for 180 days to give the CIA and FBI more time to comb through the papers and further redact information in them.
Two questions: First, the CIA and FBI have had more than half a century to clean up their mess and redact facts. Why this sudden last minute push to purge? And second, what in the hell can possibly exist in those files that still needs to be hidden from Americans fifty-four years later. Are some of the sources of information still alive and require protecting? That is laughable on its face. Tell us who they are and let the journalists have at them - for the sake of illuminating and preserving history. Or, as has been widely implied, are these papers being kept secret to protect the methods that intelligence agencies use? If the CIA and FBI are using intelligence-gathering techniques that are more than half-a-century old, well . . . that explains a lot about the state of foreign intelligence today and the reason for wars that never end.
The JFK assassination documents belong to America. Trump and the "intelligence" agencies need to quit playing games and follow the law. Release the damned files - all of them!
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