Authored by C.Douglas Golden via WesternJournal.com,
Thanks to President Joe Biden, JFK assassination records set to be released this year will be going back and to the archives. Back and to the archives. Back and to the archives….
In a statement on Friday, the White House announced that long-classified documents regarding the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy “shall be withheld from full public disclosure” until Dec. 15, 2022 — over 59 years after Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas.
According to CBS News, despite federal law which mandates all records on the event “should be eventually disclosed to enable the public to become fully informed about the history surrounding the assassination,” Biden said the federal archivist needs one more year to make appropriate redactions to minimize “identifiable harm.”
While former President Donald Trump released several thousand pages of files under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, he held back others, citing national security concerns.
According to a Friday statement from Biden, the federal government has been reviewing these redactions since 2018. They apparently need more time, because this is the federal government under the Biden administration and did we, like, expect them to do their job in an expedient manner?
The statement noted the act allowed a postponement of record release when it “remains necessary to protect against an 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 disclosure.”
It went on to say that the national archivist at the National Archives and Records Administration said “unfortunately, the pandemic has had a significant impact on the agencies” and that NARA “require[s] additional time to engage with the agencies and to conduct research within the larger collection to maximize the amount of information released.”
The archivist added that “making these decisions is a matter that requires a professional, scholarly, and orderly process; not decisions or releases made in haste” and recommended Biden “temporarily certify the continued withholding of all of the information certified in 2018” and “direct two public releases of the information that has” eventually “been determined to be appropriate for release to the public.”
We’re already a good four years past the deadline from the federal government to turn in the assignment, so to speak. The JFK Act is clear: “Each assassination record shall be publicly disclosed in full, and available in the Collection no later than the date that is 25 years after the date of enactment of this Act.”
The only exceptions are, of course, if the records cause “identifiable harm” and that harm is “of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.” Well, whaddya know …
What do you think the early odds are that this information actually comes out next December? Anyone? Do you think we’re going to see what the federal government has been sitting on all these years, or are we going to be reading a statement about how the Omega-Sigma variant of SARS-CoV-2 knocked NARA off its schedule again and that it’ll be ready next year, pinky-swear?
If there’s an actual betting market on this one, my money is going on the latter. I mean that literally — as long as it’s legal to do so, my proceeds from writing this story (and then some) will be plunked down on a bet that these files won’t see the light of day on Dec. 15, 2022.
In fact, I’d be willing to bet the only way this these files see the light under a Biden administration is if Hunter Biden stays clean, paints a mural in the Gaza Strip so moving that Israel and Palestine hold hands and sing “Kumbaya,” works his way up the political ladder and then gets elected president in another decade or so. Generally speaking, that’s not the kind of futures bet that bookmakers allow, so I’ll stick to what I can get.
In 1964, 10 months after the assassination, the Warren Commission delivered a report which found Lee Harvey Oswald was the only shooter and acted alone when he allegedly killed Kennedy. In 1978, a House Panel concluded JFK “was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy,” but that it was “unable to identify the other gunman or the extent of the conspiracy,” according to The New York Times.
These diverging narratives have turned theorizing about JFK’s assassination into a low-level national pastime.
I happen to be on team Warren Commission; despite no lack of effort, the 58 intervening years since the assassination has produced as many credible suspects for a second shooter or co-conspirators as O.J. Simpson’s hunt for the real killers has produced credible alternate suspects for the slayings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. (How is that going, by the way? I haven’t heard many updates from the Juice lately.)
However, the fact the U.S. government jealously guards documents regarding an assassination that’s now well over a half-century old feeds into fever dreams like Oliver Stone’s 1991 film “JFK.”
In the most famous scene from the movie, Kevin Costner’s character — Louisiana district attorney Jim Garrison, a colorful-yet-outré JFK conspiracy theorist who became the only prosecutor to try a case related to the assassination — tries to explain why the Zapruder film proved there had to be more than one shooter. Instead, Costner ensured “back and to the left, back and to the left” would become a running joke about conspiracy theorists for decades to come:
Never mind that the “back and to the left” theory has been debunked. The point is, perhaps you believe in the conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy’s slaying. Perhaps you’re like me and you’re tired of them. Either way, the fact the government refuses to release information on the assassination that’s the better part of a century old doesn’t help matters, whatever you believe.
Perhaps the documents will contain embarrassing revelations about Cuba — originally suspected of being behind the assassination by many and a country the Biden administration would like to make nice with now. That’s my best (and only) guess on the matter. If I don’t end up with an inbox of other theories, I’ll be disappointed.
The point is, however, that this speculation only persists the longer that the government holds on to documents legally required to be released four years ago, and which should have been in the public domain for far longer.
The baffling part about this decision is that the White House is both creating and enabling a whole army of laptop Jim Garrisons. For an administration that seems unusually concerned about conspiracy theorists in other areas, usually when they concern conservatives, one might think they would consider this a pretty significant “identifiable harm.”
Guess not.
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If you got nothing to hide….
The author is a warren commission fanboy, so article is trash. And the back and to the left debunk isnt a debunk at all. Head would go the wrong way due to ‘exploding nerves’. Get the fuck outa here. And the magic bullet wasnt magic because the seat was higher. Fuck you, an intact bullet that obviously impacted nothing fell out on the gurney. Thats magical.
If the documents arent an idictment, i’ll eat them. Need further redacting after almost 60 years. Fuck you again. Wheres our transparency? Lets shine some light on the guilty. If oswald actually did it, he would have been proud of his accomplishment, like the guy who killed ghandi.
Nothing could be a more clear indication that the ‘deep state’ is now in full control. Mr. Biden is a mere shell of a man. A puppet pure and simple and the world knows this. That he has quashed this crucial release is no big surprise. American’s are more interested in the Gabby Patito – Brian Laundrie case. A state engineered distraction from the desperately poor job that our leaders are doing in Washington.
Releasing the information was going to be biden’s only accomplishment to date, and I mean his whole sordid political life. And he screwed that up.
Patito, Baldwin, container ships on fire off the coast of Canada, these are all circuses for the people as you mentioned.
Doing their dirty Laundrie – Pathetic(o).
I think I should apply to the government to be their next name-maker-upper for false flags or other half truths. Cassidy Stay = “Stay Stong”.
I could do better than that!
The government file on the murder of a US president has to be kept secret while it is being redacted for 58 years, because everyone knows that Oswald the lone gunman did the killing . Stop with the conspiracies theories. There are no magic bullets and Johnson was completely trustworthy and also had no knowledge of the Israel attack on the USS Liberty. …cant’ wait to never see that redacted government file.
“We must always keep in mind that only a miracle kept the Liberty afloat, and if it had been sunk without survivors as expected, almost no one in American media or government would have dared accuse Israel of such an irrational act. Instead, as Stephen Green had first suggested in 1984, Egyptian forces would very likely have been blamed, producing powerful demands for immediate American retaliation, but probably on a vastly greater scale than the fictional Tonkin Gulf attack, which had inflicted no injuries.
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https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-remembering-the-liberty/
“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
Translation. Government is, was and will be ran by criminals.
American Pravda: Remembering the Liberty
President Lyndon Johnson and World War III?
By Ron Unz
“Indeed, Flynn alleges that by late 1937, FDR had turned towards an aggressive foreign policy aimed at involving the country in a major foreign war, primarily because he believed that this was the only route out of his desperate economic and political box, a stratagem not unknown among national leaders throughout history. In his January 5, 1938 New Republic column, he alerted his disbelieving readers to the looming prospect of a large naval military build-up and warfare on the horizon after a top Roosevelt adviser had privately boasted to him that a large bout of “military Keynesianism” and a major war would cure the country’s seemingly insurmountable economic problems. At that time, war with Japan, possibly over Latin American interests, seemed the intended goal, but developing events in Europe soon persuaded FDR that fomenting a general war against Germany was the best course of action. Memoirs and other historical documents obtained by later researchers seem to generally support Flynn’s accusations by indicating that Roosevelt ordered his diplomats to exert enormous pressure upon both the British and Polish governments to avoid any negotiated settlement with Germany, thereby leading to the outbreak of World War II in 1939.”
Winnie & Uncle Joe smiled…
Like 9-11, it was another small hat conspiracy.
Ever wonder why they all wear blue ties ?
To keep the foreskin from slipping up over their heads?
Jesuits wear purple, tiny hat club, blue.
I was 13 when they killed the only man I ever called “my President”. Their refusal to open up the documents decades ago is proof enough of conspiracy. BTW it’s also when I stopped referring to “our government”.
“Perhaps the documents will contain embarrassing revelations about Cuba”, or more likely embarrassing facts about some missing nuclear materials that ended up in our “only” friend in the middle east.
I think it may have something to do with that 300 acres cousin Oswald was given in that holler in West Virginia where he still lives.
How many years does it take until people realize that something is fishy? How many years of not returning to the moon until people realize that something is fishy? 100? 500?
From “it was the CIA” to “Jackie did it”, I now believe JFK never did get shot in the way it has been proposed. The lack of blood on her clothing gives it away. Zapruder frame 313 – all fake.
Not sure it’s a matter of time; but of will. Most choose to be willfully ignorant of anything that causes them upset.
What is the point of the writing this article if you believe the discredited Warren Commission? This ‘hack’ is doing the psy-war work as a lackey. A full disclosure is never going to happen because, at minimum, it would wreck any chance another Bush would be elected anywhere and it would perhaps finally be a nail in the coffin of the FBI and CIA.
What a shit article. The author is a stupid bastard if he’s on “Team Warren Commission” and can’t/won’t see that the headshot came from the front. SMDH….
Kennedy fired Allen Dulles and his reward was getting killed by the CIA. This is not rocket surgery.
This is an odd way of declaring oneself to be on team Obtuse Jackass Without The Common Sense God Gave The Dung Beetle.
People are such drooling morons. How could any actual Human take any of this JFK fiddle faddle seriously from Day One? Nearly 60 years of mongoloids like the author of this article claiming to believe lies that would not deceive a reasonably bright 3 year old.
What amazes me is the number of people who express surprise that so many believe the Covid lies. Haven’t you been paying attention, or what?
One of the best parts of A Confederacy of Dunces was his calling everybody mongoloids. The other best part was all the other parts, especially “12 inches of Paradise”. And the fact that I no longer have to read books.
That book is one of my absolute favorites. It should be read by all who read.
Hope your pyloric valve is doing well today.
This is Boomer Bait.
Goddamn it. I fell for it.
Well, I did too. And as an X’er I should be immune to these orkish tricks by now.
Really? This guy believes the Warren Commission? I bet his next article will be how the 9/11 Commission got it right as well.
58 years and they still have not changed enough of the records that they can be released to the public. I was in 6th grade when he was assassinated and I doubt I will live long enough to see the records released.
JFK the movie was a lot closer to the truth than the conclusions of the Warren Report. The fact is the Dark State killed Kennedy, and most of the top people in government at the time were in on it including Johnson.
At the point anyone uses the word “debunked” you know they are full of s*it!