JFK Files Released

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Speaking of 'conspiracies'...

The National Archives Is About to Release More JFK Files. Here’s What to Expect.​

Fifty-nine years after JFK's death, more information is about to come to light — but not everything.

By PHILIP SHENON
12/15/2022 04:30 AM EST

Philip Shenon, a former Washington and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, is author of A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination.

For this nation’s army of conspiracy theorists, few long-secret government documents have whipped up so much suspicion in the 59 years since President John F. Kennedy’s death as the CIA’s massive, multivolume background file on assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

White House officials hope at least a little of that suspicion will be lifted later today, when President Biden is expected to order the National Archives to release once-classified information from about 8,000 documents related to the assassination, including many drawn from the so-called 201 “personality” file the CIA maintained on Oswald before and after Kennedy’s murder.

 
Now here's a conspiracy for you to ponder - from the article:

"Under the JFK Records law, only the sitting president of the United States has the power to withhold assassination-related documents beyond the 2017 deadline, which means that Biden could release everything at will. He suggested last year, however, that he would continue to abide by a balancing act cited in the law, which allows documents to be kept secret indefinitely if their release would do “identifiable harm” to “military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the condition of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.”

There are two ways to look at this.

1. They are not releasing the records because of what is in bold.

2. They are not releasing the records because it would implicate government actors (FBI, CIA, et al) involved in the assassination and are using the 'balancing act' to hide their complicity.
 
Tucker covers it. @ 5m in it gets even more interesting

Tucker Carlson: We were shocked to learn this​

7m
 
 
 
Strolling around on Twitter this morning I came across all sorts of conspiracy theories about Kennedy now that the files have been released. Not going to post any of them here............just thought I'd mention it because I found it to be incredulous that all this shit came up so quick. It's actually comical. All sorts of insanity. lol
 
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