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People expecting big things are almost certain to be disappointed,
said Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, who authored a book about the assassination
We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files...people have been waiting for decades for this
Trump said
The search resulted in approximately 2400 newly inventoried and digitized records that were previously unrecognized as related to the JFK assassination case file."
The FBI
When I return to the White House, I will declassify and unseal all JFK assassination-related documents. It’s been 60 years, time for the American people to know the truth,
he said at the timeIf the commitment of such resources came at the expense of processing FISA applications, that would be to the detriment of U.S. national security interests,
said David Laufman, the former chief of the Justice Department's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section
There is an urgent declassification review of documents related to the JFK, RFK, MLK investigations (and possibly others),
Robinson wrote to the attorneys in the Office of Intelligence, addingEveryone is being asked to review a batch of documents (between 400-500 each),
he saidThey've been waiting for that for decades and I said during the campaign I'd do it, and I'm a man of my word."
Trump told reporters on Monday
By keeping files for over 60 years, it's natural that the general public would think, well, they must be keeping files because they have something to hide."
Gerald Posner, an investigative journalist and author of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, told Newsweek in JanuaryLee Harvey Oswald was, in fact, the assassin, did kill the president, and that there was not a conspiracy behind it."
But he concludedThe FBI has made the appropriate notifications of the newly discovered documents and is working to transfer them to the National Archives and Records Administration for inclusion in the ongoing declassification process."
The FBI told Newsweek in FebruaryThe CIA has classified the details of 44 documents which concern a secret CIA operation (code name AMSPELL) that targeted the leftist Fair Play for Cuba Committee (and Lee Harvey Oswald) for propaganda and political action purposes in the months before JFK was killed."
He saidMany Americans died thinking this day would never come; it's a big moment,
said one user
It's good to see him doing this. And we'll be watching — just like everyone else — to see what comes of the 80,000 pages that are going to be released."
He added
I'm not going to speculate about what it might be,
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Declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he’s not here to punch back. There’s nothing heroic about it.”
Back in January, when Trump was first teasing the release of the documents, Schlossberg took to X, formerly Twitter, and declared
You got a lot of reading. I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything. I said, ‘just don’t redact, you can’t redact,’
he added, describing the files as “interesting.”
I’ve heard about them, but I’m not doing summaries, you’ll write your own summary.”
When asked if he had seen the contents, he repliedIt's a lot of stuff, and you'll make your
he said inside the Kennedy CenterThe other thing is, I have a little problem with some people that work here,
Trump said