After
holding hands with Macron (Rothschild globalist) we have yet another
example of Trump keeping his word. Well, this tells me something--by 2021 it probably won't matter.
Translation:
The "Neocons" killed Kennedy and National Security = ISRAEL
Translation:
The "Neocons" killed Kennedy and National Security = ISRAEL
Trump delays full release of some JFK assassination files until 2021, bowing to national security concerns
President Trump vowed last year to release all the
long-secret files related to the JFK assassination, but the
administration announced Thursday that some documents will remain
redacted until October 2021 for national security reasons.
In
a White House memo, Trump said that the nation’s intelligence community
persuaded him to keep some parts of documents secret because their
exposure could harm “identifiable national security, law enforcement,
and foreign affairs concerns.”
Trump gave the CIA, FBI and other agencies a deadline of April 26 to
release documents related to the investigation into President John F.
Kennedy’s assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 22, 1963, in
Dallas.
Trump, who once suggested Sen. Ted Cruz’s father
played a role in the assassination, had promised to release the
entirety of the 5 million pages of records, most of which have been
available since the late 1990s.
“Subject
to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as
President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened,” Trump tweeted on Oct. 21, 2017.
Six
days later, he promised: “After strict consultation with General Kelly,
the CIA and other Agencies, I will be releasing ALL JFK files other
than the names and addresses of any mentioned person who is still
living.”
The
president did authorize the disclosure of 19,045 documents that are
available on the National Archives website. Of that batch, more than
15,000 documents — which had been released previously with varying
degrees of redactions — still have blanked-out sections, according to a
National Security Council spokesman. In most of those cases, the
redactions are now fewer. The spokesman also said no more documents are
being withheld in full under the section that falls within the public
disclosure rules under the Kennedy Act.
Trump said
the next deadline for release of more documents would be Oct. 26, 2021.
“The need for continued protection can only grow weaker with the
passage of time…,” Trump wrote.
Jefferson Morley, a former Washington Post staff writer who edits JFKFacts.org,
a website devoted to the Kennedy records, said in an interview that he
was disappointed by Trump’s decision to delay the full release for
another three years and, possibly, beyond.
“Trump
said that all the JFK files will be released, but the truth is that
thousands of JFK files are still secret. The clear intent of Congress
was to have these released last October and now we’re talking about
2021,” Morley said. “The point is that the CIA wants to keep this secret
forever. It’s a very clear statement of intent.”
Morley
also said that the Trump administration is not complying with the
stipulations of the Kennedy Records Act, which requires that the
administration provide declassified explanations for withheld documents.
On October 26, 1992, President George H.W. Bush signed the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act.
The law required that all the assassination records “shall be publicly
disclosed in full and available” at the National Archives “no later than
the date that is 25 years after the date of the enactment of this act.”
But the law did allow for postponements if the government was worried
that harm to the military and intelligence communities “outweighs the
public interest in disclosure.”
Morley,
who has been fighting the CIA in federal court for the last 15 years to
obtain other Kennedy records, said he was quickly going through the
19,000 files that were released Thursday and came across redactions that
made little sense to him. One document was an FBI report detailing an
agent’s interview of Oswald’s brother Robert and mother Marguerite in
April 1960. The July 1961 document refers to four confidential
informants — code-named T-1, T-2, T-3, and T-4 — but their names are
blacked out.
“This is a 57-year-old document,” Morley said. “And the names are still being withheld. Why?”
Another
document is a House Select Committee on Assassinations interview of
Boris and Ann Tarasoff, two former contract employees with the CIA at
the agency’s Mexico City station in the run-up to Kennedy’s
assassination. The transcript’s exchanges are mostly all there, except
that Morley noticed one paragraph whited-out for reasons he could not
ascertain.
In a separate interview with Mr. Tarasoff on November 30, 1976, I learned that the photographic expert on station in Mexico City in 1963 September to November was Bob Zambernardi. Zambernardi’s —
And then the paragraph is whited out until it continues again:
Zambernardi was probably the man in charge of photographing the activities of both the Cuban and Soviet embassies in 1963.
At
the same time, Morley did give credit to the government for taking
documents that were once heavily redacted and lifting their veils.
“There is some progress,” he said. “Some significant material has been
released today, but other significant redactions remain.”
Rex
Bradford, president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, which tracks the
JFK files, said he wasn’t sure yet what had been withheld and needed to
spend time scrutinizing the latest release of documents to see whether
they contain a large or small amount of redactions. He said he did a
quick “spot-check” and was surprised to see fewer whited-out sections
than in previous releases.
“I checked a few
dozen files, and there were certainly many with redactions, but they
tended to be names and short phrases,” Bradford said.