Trump delays release of some JFK files until 2021, bowing to national security concerns

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Ian Shapira April 26 at 10:56 AM

After President Trump vowed last year to release all the long secret files related to the JFK assassination, the administration announced Thursday that some documents will be withheld 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 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 24 to release the last remaining documents related to the investigation into President Kennedy’s assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 22, 1963 in Dallas. Last year Trump, who once suggested Sen. Ted Cruz’s father played a role in the assassination, promised he was going to release the entirety of the five 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.”

Link to tweet

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/04/26/trump-delays-release-of-some-jfk-files-until-2021-bowing-to-national-security-concerns/

[keithbvadu2]

1. Now that Ted Cruz kisses Dotard's bottom, Donald protects Rafael's daddy.

Now that Ted Cruz kisses Dotard's bottom, Donald protects Rafael's daddy.

Never let a good conspiracy theory go to waste.

[sandensea]

2. Carlos Bringuier must be relieved too.

To paraphrase Steely Dan, the Cuban gentlemen will sleep all day.

[Brother Buzz]

3. Fred Trump did not spend the night in Dallas

SO STOP SAYING THAT!

[groundloop]

4. Spanky flip-flops yet again.

[LiberalLovinLug]

5. The obvious question

Why is this a matter of "national security"?
What information could possibly threaten any contemporary actions going on today?

I think that "national security" concern is more about concern that some powerful people, old political stalwarts still alive, do not want to be exposed.

[Journeyman]

8. To quote Kurt Vonnegut: "Secret? My God -- from whom?" . . .

[FreepFryer]

6. The idea he even knows the contents of those files while president is an atrocity. (n/t)

[riversedge]

7. Blustering idiot at the helm.

[henbuck]

9. Nothing

Noting that happened 54 years ago could be a security concern now.

[Cold War Spook]

13. The killing of the president shouldn't be a security concern now.

You never know though. My army records have been flagged since Oct 8, 1964 the day I finished my course in Russian. Even back then I believed that the Russians knew more about my job than I did.

[Archae]

10. It's not a "security concern."

It's an embarrassment concern.

Both the FBI and the CIA were keeping tabs, (somewhat) on Lee Harvey Oswald.

And they both blew it completely, letting him get away with shooting at a right-wing commie-hunting general, and shooting JFK.

It's a severe embarrassment to the FBI and CIA, no Oliver Stone conspiracy theory needed.

[Orange Free State]

11. And also

Ted Cruz’s father was the Bubushka Lady!

[Achilleaze]

12. "You rang?" - Babushka Lady*

* aka Rafael Bienvenido Cruz y Díaz in drag