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JFK Assassination Expert Reacts to Trump’s Effort to Declassify Files, and What You Should Expect
Wed, 29 Jan 2025
Jefferson Morley on the real reason it’s taken 63 years to get the JFK documents — and how we’ll know when they’re all released. (00:00) The Potential Loophole in Donald Trump’s Executive Order (03:58) Where Are the Documents Held? (06:45) What is the CIA Hiding? (09:05) Will Amaryllis Fox Kennedy Oversee the Release of the Files? (11:39) The MLK Files (17:48) Was Lee Harvey Oswald a Patsy? Paid partnership with: Jase Medical: Use promo code “Tucker” for an extra discount at https://Jasemedical.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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You first wrote about the JFK assassination for The Washington Post in the spring of 1995. So that's 30 years of serious reporting on one topic, which is admittedly a vast topic, but still one topic. Yes. Yeah. What's it like to see this announcement?
I mean, those of us who've been calling for the release of these records for more than a decade, this is a great and promising moment. But there's still pitfalls ahead. And I want to emphasize that, you know, this is not something that can be done with the stroke of a pen. The powers of these secret agencies are strong and we actually kind of see their influence even on Trump's statement.
So it's important to know what we've learned in the recent past, kind of the context of these latest developments, and what is possible under this order. But a lot is now possible. So that's a great development.
Thank you for saying that, because it's it is complicated. I mean, a president can come in and say, as this president just did, I want to see the documents and I want the public to see the documents. But there's a distance between that and seeing the documents. So if you wouldn't mind walking us through what the process is for getting this material.
So the president's order orders a plan within 15 days from four top officials, two of whom are acting and two of whom are Trump appointees, to come up with a plan for declassification.
In the president's order, section three of the president's order contains a loophole, which to me could be interpreted as saying the CIA director could overrule any decision that comes out of this declassification effort. That's a pretty big loophole that needs to be plugged or disavowed because the agencies cannot have final control over the release of this material, right?
They've been resisting full disclosure since the day President Kennedy died. That's the day that the CIA's lies began. CIA officials began lying about what they knew about Lee Harvey Oswald within hours of President Kennedy's murder. And they've been obfuscating, lying, deceiving, covering up, evading ever since.
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