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Tony_FLADEM

(3,023 posts)
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 11:01 PM Oct 2021

Biden delays release of secret JFK assassination files

President Joe Biden ordered yet another delay in the release of secret files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy yet to see the light of day more than 50 years after his death.

A White House memo, signed by Biden, said "[t]emporary continued postponement is necessary to protect against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure."

The order comes in response to the archivist of the United States recommending the president “temporarily certify the continued withholding of all of the information certified in 2018” and “direct two public releases of the information that has” ultimately “been determined to be appropriate for release to the public,” with one interim release later this year and one more comprehensive release in late 2022, according to the memo.

Delays associated with the coronavirus pandemic were cited as the reason for the recommendation.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/biden-delays-release-of-secret-jfk-assassination-files

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Biden delays release of secret JFK assassination files (Original Post) Tony_FLADEM Oct 2021 OP
Lee Harvey Oswald did it. End of story! Nt USALiberal Oct 2021 #1
Oh. Ok. ZZenith Oct 2021 #6
Yes. nt frogmarch Oct 2021 #18
I agree. It was a difficult shot but he pulled it off. Buckeyeblue Oct 2021 #20
So why all the secrecy? Kid Berwyn Oct 2021 #23
What could possibly be in there? gldstwmn Oct 2021 #2
Something J. Edgar wanted hushed up forever. Archae Oct 2021 #3
And they were surveillance him why? gldstwmn Oct 2021 #5
Mostly because of his far-leftist activities. Archae Oct 2021 #8
Because he was a known Communist and returned defector Spider Jerusalem Oct 2021 #19
I think JEH hushed up that LHO worked for the FBI, as it spied on the CIA Captain Zero Oct 2021 #17
No question the Soviets thought Oswald was a double sgent. Boomerproud Oct 2021 #22
Military defense? It's been 60 freaking years CanonRay Oct 2021 #4
Right? What secrets. Castro? Old Soviet era Russia? gldstwmn Oct 2021 #7
Say it ain't so Joe. dem4decades Oct 2021 #9
58 years. Boomerproud Oct 2021 #10
The Bush family.... sarcasmo Oct 2021 #14
Thank You. nt Progressive Jones Oct 2021 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Oct 2021 #16
Only the culpable and their protectors know for sure. dchill Oct 2021 #11
Where angels tread lightly Mopar151 Oct 2021 #12
The Examiner is Right Wing mouthpiece. tirebiter Oct 2021 #13
It's on CNNs site. Boomerproud Oct 2021 #21
How many people still living know what's in there? 3catwoman3 Oct 2021 #24

Buckeyeblue

(5,499 posts)
20. I agree. It was a difficult shot but he pulled it off.
Sat Oct 23, 2021, 08:34 AM
Oct 2021

I think people have a difficult time with that. The real question is who put him up to it? And who had connections to those people. Remember, it's a small world. People with money often have associations with people who the average person may find questionable. My guess is that Oswald had connections to people who had connections to maybe more public people. If some of that came out, people and their imaginations would run wild.

My assumption is that there are people who probably have connections to both Bush and Johnson. There are probably some mob ties. And who knows what else.

Ruby's killing of Oswald doesn't help any. Did he kill Oswald out of panic--did he have some sort of connection he didn't want made public? Or was he put up to it? If Ruby doesn't kill Oswald, he would have been quickly convicted and executed. End of story...maybe

Kid Berwyn

(14,897 posts)
23. So why all the secrecy?
Sat Oct 23, 2021, 09:13 AM
Oct 2021

And why did the Pentagon, CIA and FBI interfere with the investigation?

Why did these and evidently other federal agencies obstruct justice?

Archae

(46,326 posts)
3. Something J. Edgar wanted hushed up forever.
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 11:07 PM
Oct 2021

Namely that Lee Harvey Oswald was ALREADY being spied on by the FBI, so they botched the surveillance of Oswald.

Archae

(46,326 posts)
8. Mostly because of his far-leftist activities.
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 11:13 PM
Oct 2021

He was profiled as a Pro-Castro activist on a Louisiana TV station.

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Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
19. Because he was a known Communist and returned defector
Sat Oct 23, 2021, 03:05 AM
Oct 2021

it would've been far odder if he hadn't been under FBI surveillance.

Captain Zero

(6,805 posts)
17. I think JEH hushed up that LHO worked for the FBI, as it spied on the CIA
Sat Oct 23, 2021, 01:59 AM
Oct 2021

Oswald informed on the CIAs rogue appendage, the mis-directed group running anti-Casto Cubans, that was continuing to try to bring down Castro.
It's (Oswalds informing) how the FBI brought down the rogue camps/arms they had set-up in Louisiana.
(There's a documentary video on Tubi TV about it. Tubi is operated by Fox. FYI.)

Oswald never fired a shot that day. IMHO.
But, the CIA or at least it's rogue shadow was onto LHO as an informer for the FBI.
That's how he got set up as the patsy, JEH had to accede to that, or have it revealed he/FBI was paying Oswald.

That's why there has been so much dissembling and cover up going all around.

Boomerproud

(7,952 posts)
22. No question the Soviets thought Oswald was a double sgent.
Sat Oct 23, 2021, 09:12 AM
Oct 2021

That's why they kicked him out. Why did the State Dept.pay for his and Marina's trip back to Texas,?

Response to sarcasmo (Reply #14)

Mopar151

(9,982 posts)
12. Where angels tread lightly
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 11:32 PM
Oct 2021

Written by one of the archivists of the Kennedy Project, which sorted 6,500,000+ government documents to do with the assianation. Includes great detail about figuring out what REALLY happened, esp. In book 3 of the series.

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