On Friday night, President Joe Biden released an executive order that more or less said that the JFK Records Collection Act is no longer in effect.
Usually the White House delays such an announcement to a Friday night in order to avoid maximum publicity such a decree would get on a Monday morning news cycle. Since there was little publicity about the order, it appears that the administration succeeded in its attempt to keep the fallout about the order minimal.
What this announcement does is essentially stymie the original JFK Records Collection Act. That 1992 law said that after October 2017, every last document concerning the JFK case would be released without redactions. The only person who could prevent that from happening was the president. Yet after that termination date, first President Trump and then President Biden, delayed the process a total of at least four times. And now, with this June 30th order, Biden has pretty much stopped the declassification process before it is completed—and in two ways. First, there are still thousands of documents yet to be released in unredacted form. Secondly, according to our reporter on the subject, Gary Majewski, the last two releases contained no new documents.
Apparently, Biden has succumbed to the demands of the executive intelligence agencies, particularly the CIA and its so called Transparency Plan. (Chad Nagle explains that here) Biden’s order also turns over ultimate disposition of the remaining JFK files to the National Declassification Center, by following the Transparency Plan:
The Transparency Plans will ensure that the public will have access to the maximum amount of information while continuing to protect against identifiable harms to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, and the conduct of foreign relations under the standards of the Act.
It is hard to comprehend how someone as experienced as Joe Biden could agree to these excuses that the CIA, and FBI always use in order to keep relevant information hidden. President Kennedy was killed almost 60 years ago under the most suspect circumstances. What secret operations from more than a half century ago could outweigh the need for total disclosure of that murder?
We urge our readers to protest this attempt to place a muzzle on the JFK Records Collection Act. Please contact either the House Oversight Committee or The White House to make your objection known.
House Oversight Committee
2157 Rayburn House Office Bldg.
Washington. DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-5074; Fax: 202-225-3974
Chair: James Comer; Ranking Member: Jamie Raskin
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.
Washington DC 20500
Phone: 202-456-1111; Email : president@whitehouse.gov
(This is a breaking story, and we will have more about it from attorney Mark Adamczyk and Andrew Iler.)
