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Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

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Re: Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

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Most of the documents were declassified already, I think 99% of 170,000 files or some large number. This was through the The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. I don't know what's to gain in this release other than closure?

Someone previously decided that the remaining 1%, 1700 files, shouldn't be viewed by the public. Why? 1700 files is plenty to hold some interesting truths.

Re: Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

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Most of the documents were declassified already, I think 99% of 170,000 files or some large number. This was through the The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. I don't know what's to gain in this release other than closure?

It was a campaign process and obviously people want to know the whole story.

Re: Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

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During his first term, Trump was the one who stopped all the records from being released automatically. This is his MO, to claim as victory something that would have happened without him opening his mouth in the first place.

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Maybe its truly a nothing-burger. even if released uncensored the most salient information would be details about how the secret service deployed and what they did wrong? Personally I think that is probably the most likely thing that would be still considered classified even if the details are completely obvious.

I mean most classified information is classified because its classified. By that I mean it is classified because nobody declassified it. That gets you hilarious press conferences like that navy UFO thing in trumps last term where the spokesperson could only say "the US does not have the technology to build a flying object like this" (paraphrased from memory).

I am pretty sure an analyst looked at the footage and identified a sea-bird and the US does not have the technology to build a bird exactly. But analyst output is automatically classified so.....

Re: Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

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post #35

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He was asked about this by Joe Rogan, his response at there is some concern that some of the people involved was still alive, but now he feels that doesn’t override the need of the families and American people to know. This post is not political whether you believe or do not believe Trump is up to you.

Yep. That person is Ruth Paine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Paine?wprov=sfti1

But we already knew everything about her?

Re: Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

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As much as some would like to pretend it does, his issues in his personal life still don’t make segregation and lack of voting rights an okay thing.

Yes, but he was really bad in some respects, that clashes with his public image/caricature in a way that kind of matters

I mean, we're regressing everything else back to the good ol' 1960's, so yeah, sure, why not, lets whip out the ol "sexual deviant" playbook to discredit some basic human rights and fairness.

As long as people are distracted by some black guy's bisexuality or whatever they won't ask questions about all the underage human trafficking on epstein's lolita express with the people who are actually alive and running the government today.

Oh, and icing on the cake: it's a good pretext to remove MLK Day and that Black History Month. Guy was a sexual deviant, so clearly the civil rights movement was a giant discredited DEI sham. eg https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/defense-agency...

Re: Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

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Most of the documents were declassified already, I think 99% of 170,000 files or some large number. This was through the The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. I don't know what's to gain in this release other than closure?

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Re: Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

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post #64

Most of the documents were declassified already, I think 99% of 170,000 files or some large number. This was through the The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. I don't know what's to gain in this release other than closure?

It was a campaign process and obviously people want to know the whole story.

> obviously people want to know the whole story.

And, yet, they never will.

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