Release of JFK Assassination File Is Delayed as Deadline Looms

NBCNews ^ | October 26, 2016 | KEN DILANIAN and CORKY SIEMASZKO

[maggief]

The U.S. government was in danger Thursday of missing the deadline to release a trove of previously classified records from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, adding an unexpected twist to a saga already rife with rumors and conspiracies.

The National Archives needs the official approval of President Donald Trump to begin releasing the 35,000 documents online and meet a deadline to divulge the papers set by Congress 25 years ago by The John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act.

But as of Thursday afternoon, the memo specifying which material the CIA, State Department and other agencies still want to keep under wraps had not made it to Trump’s desk, U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.

“There’s a mad scramble going on in the executive branch to get this done,” one official told NBC News.

The CIA is asking only for some redactions, not for all the documents to be held, the official said. But the other agencies involved in the process have not yet finished their submissions.

So only a handful of documents were expected to be released on Thursday, not the entire batch, officials told NBC News.

[Boogieman]

“Yet not everyone associated with the government lies all the time either.”

No, but the only way to really know they aren’t lying in a situation like this is if we can independently verify what they are saying. Sorry, but when it comes to politicians and used car salesmen, the words “trust me” just don’t carry any weight at all.

[cgbg]

In this case we have the number one suspect (the CIA) deciding which evidence they want to release for public scrutiny.

This is a total joke—the CIA violating their mission by intervening in domestic politics—yet again.