Biden delays release of JFK assassination files

[Rogue Valley]

Biden delays release of JFK assassination files

10/23/21
President Joe Biden wrote in a statement that the remaining files "shall be withheld from full public disclosure" until December 15 next year -- nearly 60 years after Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, Texas in 1963. In 2018, former president Donald Trump released several thousand secret files on the assassination, but withheld others on national security grounds. The White House said the national archivist needs more time for a review into that redaction, which was slowed by the pandemic. Biden also said the delay was "necessary to protect against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations" and that this "outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure." US law requires that all government records on the assassination be disclosed "to enable the public to become fully informed."

After almost 60 years of being sealed from the public, what "national security" grounds could still have such a profound effect on Americans in 2021?

What difference will another year make? This has stink all over it.

 

[Antiwar]

Who done it?

 

[independentusa]

Biden delays release of JFK assassination files

After almost 60 years of being sealed from the public, what "national security" grounds could still have such a profound effect on Americans in 2021?

What difference will another year make? This has stink all over it.

Trump released some of them and held others back. I have no thought on why Biden would do so, but maybe to protect the family.

 

[bluesmoke]

By/before 12/15/22 the same excuse can be made just as . Maybe there is still a scatter of people alive to protect. Usually, we don't hear the truth, if we ever do, until after those complicit in any conceivable way are all dead. F Biden.

 

[Craig234]

Dammit Biden, what a disappointment. What legitimate national security interest is threatened here, rather than embarrassment or shame? This issue really has little to do with the JFK assassination, and is simply a random encounter with excessive over-classification practices. You can look at already released files that were hidden decades that did not need to be to confirm this.

 

[Craig234]

Trump released some of them and held others back. I have no thought on why Biden would do so, but maybe to protect the family.

I don't think it's about protecting the family, but rather just protecting some things that are embarrassing or shameful that the officials prefer to hide. Using covid as an excuse... with apparently ZERO files approved for release from YEARS of review.

 

[Helix]

Just release the files so conspiracy nutcases can spend six months looking at tiny details instead of scaring the gullible away from getting vaccinated.

 

[Integrityrespec]

Conspiracy books on Kennedy are full of interesting information. Many which are government failures in protection and I'm sure the government hates to look stupid.

 

[Roadvirus]

Biden delays release of JFK assassination files

After almost 60 years of being sealed from the public, what "national security" grounds could still have such a profound effect on Americans in 2021?

What difference will another year make? This has stink all over it.

Quit teasing the Conspiracy Theorists and release the files!

 

[Craig234]

Quit teasing the Conspiracy Theorists and release the files!

It's not about conspiracy theorists, it's about the truth being revealed about government activities. No one thinks the hidden files will have some document about assassinating JFK. Even if there WAS a conspiracy, Carlos Marcello and Allen Dulles weren't sending memos to the CIA to be filed about it.

 

[Razoo]

It does have stink written all over it. I doubt that one person could have pulled that off = it was an inside job.

Or it is too revealing for national security? How could it have been Lee Harvey Oswald and how was it suddenly known
where Oswald was shooting from?

9/11 had this same stink. The FBI and others in high places knew of the 9/11 culprits and knew where they were living which was just a few
blocks away from NSA headquarters. It was such a shock yet in no time we were learning who the people were and were learning many facts about their plan
yet still they got away with it......and no jets were scrambled to avert the tragedy. None of the culprits survived.

Speculation tells me the war machine, big oil and some big bankers did not want JFK around. He was quite a popular dude and was loaded with charisma.
Thus big money folks feared the power he had and did not like the direction the Kennedy clan could have steered the nation.

Big brother is everywhere, knows so much about we citizens so how could anyone get away with any such shit? How did the USA terrorists
get away with Jan 6th?

Was GW and his gang too busy pulling off another home loan scam or chasing tree huggers, or spying in bedrooms or ?????
How did the GW admin forget to fund ongoing surveillance of the 9/11 culprits?

Have we been getting duped for the past 40 some years?

 

[Craig234]

It does have stink written all over it. I doubt that one person could have pulled that off = it was an inside job.

There is no reason one person couldn't have pulled it off.

How could it have been Lee Harvey Oswald and how was it suddenly known where Oswald was shooting from?

Because he was an assassination-minded person with the means to do it. A police officer rushed up the building 90 seconds after the shooting, stopping to evaluate Oswald on the way and letting him go, and finding the sniper's nest with the rifle. And some witnesses.

Speculation tells me the war machine, big oil and some big bankers did not want JFK around. He was quite a popular dude thus big money folks feared the power he had and did not like the direction the Kennedy clan could have steered the nation.

It's not speculation if you learn the history. Not bankers, but national security, mafia, and others, and it's the direction not that he could have but was taking and did take things. Was taking with things like the planned 1965 Vietnam withdrawal, had taken with things like the Nuclear test ban and handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Big brother is everywhere, knows so much about we citizens so how could anyone get away with any such shit?

Why not? And big brother was FAR, FAR less present then.

 

[Schism]

What Biden is keeping secret in the JFK files

 

[Deuce]

Biden delays release of JFK assassination files

After almost 60 years of being sealed from the public, what "national security" grounds could still have such a profound effect on Americans in 2021?

What difference will another year make? This has stink all over it.

The reality of the situation is quite scary. The government didn't take Oswald seriously and one dude was able to just take a gun and kill the president with little difficulty.

 

[Buckeyes85]

Biden delays release of JFK assassination files

After almost 60 years of being sealed from the public, what "national security" grounds could still have such a profound effect on Americans in 2021?

What difference will another year make? This has stink all over it.

That you don't know what national security grounds exist is hardly a compelling argument that "something stinks." Not like they have been with held on those grounds for 60 years already.

 

[Craig234]

The reality of the situation is quite scary. The government didn't take Oswald seriously and one dude was able to just take a gun and kill the president with little difficulty.

What does 'not take him seriously' really mean? What was Oswald to the government the morning of November 22, 1963?

He was an American citizen who owned a rifle and pistol, lived around Dallas, and worked in a building. He had defected to Russia and been allowed to return. He had skirmishes where he handed out flyers supporting Cuba and got into a fight months before, and he had promoted communism.

He had no history of any threats against Kennedy. He had tried to assassinate former General Walker, but no one but he and Marina knew that.

The FBI already had an agent trying to keep an eye on Oswald from time to time, James Hosty. Perhaps the strongest evidence the government had was a note from Oswald threatening violence if Hosty kept bothering Marina.

What was the government supposed do at that point? Put Oswald in prison because they were psychics about his plans? I wouldn't quite say 'little difficulty'; it involved remarkable circumstances with Kennedy riding just below a window where Oswald was able to have the space and privacy to be a sniper, but it was too little difficulty. Kennedy himself said that morning how easy it would be for someone to shoot him.

 

[Buckeyes85]

It does have stink written all over it. I doubt that one person could have pulled that off = it was an inside job.

Or it is too revealing for national security? How could it have been Lee Harvey Oswald and how was it suddenly known
where Oswald was shooting from?

9/11 had this same stink. The FBI and others in high places knew of the 9/11 culprits and knew where they were living which was just a few
blocks away from NSA headquarters. It was such a shock yet in no time we were learning who the people were and were learning many facts about their plan
yet still they got away with it......and no jets were scrambled to avert the tragedy. None of the culprits survived.

Speculation tells me the war machine, big oil and some big bankers did not want JFK around. He was quite a popular dude and was loaded with charisma.
Thus big money folks feared the power he had and did not like the direction the Kennedy clan could have steered the nation.

Big brother is everywhere, knows so much about we citizens so how could anyone get away with any such shit? How did the USA terrorists
get away with Jan 6th?

Was GW and his gang too busy pulling off another home loan scam or chasing tree huggers, or spying in bedrooms or ?????
How did the GW admin forget to fund ongoing surveillance of the 9/11 culprits?

Have we been getting duped for the past 40 some years?

Out of curiosity, are there any conspiracy theories you don't believe in?

 

[Craig234]

That you don't know what national security grounds exist is hardly a compelling argument that "something stinks." Not like they have been with held on those grounds for 60 years already.

There is a question what national security grounds could exist about events that long ago. We're supposed to be a democracy where the people have the right to know what the government does in their name, with minimal restrictions where legitimately needed. Covering up wrongs, crimes, and embarrassments might make people want to classify and hide them, but they're not legitimate uses for classification.

 

[Metric Mouse]

Biden delays release of JFK assassination files

After almost 60 years of being sealed from the public, what "national security" grounds could still have such a profound effect on Americans in 2021?

What difference will another year make? This has stink all over it.

To put it in perspective, Biden was in his 20s when this occurred, and he's still kicking and quite a prominent political figure. There could still be plenty of people he's trying to protect; might not seem like it occurred that long ago to him.

 

[Allan]

It does have stink written all over it. I doubt that one person could have pulled that off = it was an inside job.

Look back at history and you'll find that most assassinations involve one person acting alone. There are group conspiracies to assassinate leaders but they don't stay secret very long.

 

[Craig234]

Look back at history and you'll find that most assassinations involve one person acting alone. There are group conspiracies to assassinate leaders but they don't stay secret very long.

You have a lot to learn.

 

[Allan]

You have a lot to learn.

There is nothing to be learned from CTers.

 

[Craig234]

There is nothing to be learned from CTers.

Whether or not there is, you have a lot to learn about history.

 

[braindrain]

It does have stink written all over it. I doubt that one person could have pulled that off = it was an inside job.

Or it is too revealing for national security? How could it have been Lee Harvey Oswald and how was it suddenly known
where Oswald was shooting from?

9/11 had this same stink. The FBI and others in high places knew of the 9/11 culprits and knew where they were living which was just a few
blocks away from NSA headquarters. It was such a shock yet in no time we were learning who the people were and were learning many facts about their plan
yet still they got away with it......and no jets were scrambled to avert the tragedy. None of the culprits survived.

Speculation tells me the war machine, big oil and some big bankers did not want JFK around. He was quite a popular dude and was loaded with charisma.
Thus big money folks feared the power he had and did not like the direction the Kennedy clan could have steered the nation.

Big brother is everywhere, knows so much about we citizens so how could anyone get away with any such shit? How did the USA terrorists
get away with Jan 6th?

Was GW and his gang too busy pulling off another home loan scam or chasing tree huggers, or spying in bedrooms or ?????
How did the GW admin forget to fund ongoing surveillance of the 9/11 culprits?

Have we been getting duped for the past 40 some years?

Why am I not surprised that you are a conspiracy therory true believer.

You guys really don’t have a firm grasp on reality you know that right?

 

[Buckeyes85]

There is a question what national security grounds could exist about events that long ago. We're supposed to be a democracy where the people have the right to know what the government does in their name, with minimal restrictions where legitimately needed. Covering up wrongs, crimes, and embarrassments might make people want to classify and hide them, but they're not legitimate uses for classification.

Ok, that's fair. No argument here.