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JFK assassination: Trump to allow release of classified documents
2017-10-21
Posted by:DarthVader

#11  Yeah and Jack Ruby was the 'cleanup guy'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2017-10-21 18:34  

#10  The wack jobs are still looking for "the truth" in that the (pick one) CIA, the FBI, Jack Anderson, Tricky Dick, da Mob pulled the trigger. People jast can't accept that a nobody like Lee Harvey could have done it
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2017-10-21 18:24  

#9  re #7 Cause I'm not a UFO believer Skid.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-10-21 17:08  

#8  "Remember, it's never the crime, but the cover-up."

Let me explain.

I firmly believe that Lee Oswald killed John Kennedy, end of story. Therefore I don't believe we'll find anything in these papers that say anything else. I also don't believe we'll find anything other than garden-variety Agency stupidity and incompetence in them either.

I do, however, expect them to reveal a lot about JFK's philandering and other Bad Acts, stuff that would have infuriated the voters had they known about it when Bobby and Teddy ran...and may have in fact involved them. Watch for the Kennedy family to make a full-court press to put the kibosh on this, because you know they've known what's in those papers for a very long time.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2017-10-21 15:57  

#7  Why is there a '/sarc' on that AlanC?
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-10-21 14:07  

#6  There is now a PJmedia article about it.

States the CIA isn't really all that bothered with the 50+ year old stuff, but some of the documents generated in 1990 about it they may want to redact. They could explain methods used to gather the data and some of those methods are still in use.

I would be ok with leaving that stuff secret.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-10-21 14:01  

#5  IIUC the release is required unless Trump specifies otherwise - I think document by document.
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-10-21 12:54  

#4  But what about Roswell??!!




/sarc
Posted by: AlanC   2017-10-21 12:38  

#3  Over. Fifty. Years. How many Secrets need to be buried longer?
Posted by: magpie   2017-10-21 12:17  

#2  Based on what the "intelligence community" and "national law enforcement" have been doing to him, I don't think he owes them anything beyond what prudence dictates.
Posted by: charger   2017-10-21 12:14  

#1  With the caveat:

Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump

Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened.

Hopefully he does. I bet some serious government embarrassment about it.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-10-21 11:03  

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