by Jeff Childers
PBS ran another terrific story yesterday headlined, “Trump mandates assassination records be released for the Kennedy brothers and MLK Jr.”
The President signed the new executive order yesterday. One person who will be thrilled is Robert Kennedy, Jr., Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Assuming it actually happens this time, it will be historic for both historians and conspiracy theorists.
But it will also help drain the deep state.
The backstory is that, in 2017, Trump ordered the JFK assassination records released. The agencies panicked and badgered the President into agreeing to various delays on full release, and before you knew it, Trump was out, and Biden ordered an indefinite delay. Yesterday, Trump gave the Attorney General (potentially Pam Bondi) and the Director of National Intelligence (possibly Tulsi Gabbard) fifteen days to come up with a plan to release not just the remaining RFK documents but also the assassination records of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Many folks have read the order and found things to complain about. They are understandably skeptical that disclosure will really happen, this time. We’ll just have to wait and see. But I think there could be reason for hope. On the one hand, this might just be Trump over-delivering on a first-term campaign promise to release the JFK records.
But there could be a lot more here.
It is inarguable that the security agencies do not want these records released. By ordering their release, Trump is applying pressure to the agencies, by creating perception problems occupying their time and attention with damage control. It leaves them with less bandwidth to make mischief. Trump is showing himself to be a president in full control of his power and authority, and he is showing the deep state that he has the will and ability to apply discipline in a way that hurts them the most: disclosure.
It’s their own fault. If the agencies weren’t so secretive, Trump wouldn’t hold this power over them. To be clear, it’s an unnecessary amount of secrecy. I’m not the only one who thinks that. Behold this headline from Truthout.org, just three months ago:
Now you can see why one of Trump’s first-week moves is to order these assassination records released. To drain the swamp, you first have to shine a light on the swamp creatures.
Either way, one thing is clear: the lack of transparency surrounding these assassinations has been a stain on the nation’s character. It’s time to blot it out. But there was even more.
Oswald acted alone. read CASE CLOSED by Posner.
if any of this ‘research’ bunk proves true I’ll eat your hat.
Ehat ever, magic bullet bwahahahaha.
You really need to be a retard to believe that shit. I bet you back the swamp and the deep state 100% right swampthing?
He voted for Bush I would place a bet,
stupid ass. I voted for McGovern and that was my first and last democrat. how can you be such a slimy weasel?
you lost your bet, bonehead. pay me.
I said ‘read the book,’ Peaches. I was in the 5th grade when it happened, and I’ve had a lifelong interest. did you know Oswald cut his wrists in Russia when they denied him entry? did you know black workers on the floor below had their afros snowed on with plaster dust from the booms just above?
I’ve read all 4 of Caro’s LBJ volumes; he said there’s zero indication Lyndon was involved. I know a certified shatload about it compared to you, and getting spit on by nons who’ve heard various spurious conspiracy theories is unpleasant, but not new.
Plaster in their afros “from the booms just above”, that is just to moronic to believe, unless you know nothing about rifles and will swallow any bullshit presented to you in 5th grade!
Oh look everybody! He read some books!!!! That seals it. We must all believe in the government and the deep state! It was just some lone guy with magic bullets!!!!
Bless your heart, you think life is like a Disney movie, don’t you?
What a dumbfuck.
Not just magic bullets but a magic mail order crap Italian rifle that has the power to knock plaster from ceilings with the barrel out of a window with its sonic booms. Not fiction?
It boggles my mind how people, knowing what we now know, can believe that Oswald alone assassinated JFK along with the bogus stories of MLK and RFK. All one big coinkydink eh?
I was home sick that day. 9th grade.
I got to watch live the first time the Zapruder film was aired (before it was edited.)
Made sense that the people in the crowd were ALL pointing toward the grassy knoll, not toward a school building behind the car.
BTW, before that day, all we had of news was a 1/2 hour of local and a 1/2 hour of national.
That was the first day of non-stop news.
Journalist Dorothy Kilgallen, who suffered the exact same death as Marilyn Monroe, was convinced she had the “story of a lifetime,” but she never got a chance to get that story into print.
Her source had been Jack Ruby.
The fantasia story lines were not believed at the time not just with the piece meal disclosures up to this point. Even with full disclosure including friggin confession there will still be those that will have their own theories.
go ahead, Curt. reverse engineer a conspiracy that places Oswald in the sniper’s nest to be captured as a patsy. ready? go.
I tried to be brief. Oswald’s floor was being redone; it was temporary plywood. that is why the plaster rained down.
can’t you see that I’m dealing in facts, and you are dealing in speculation?
by the way, the ‘magic bullet’ is also a fiction. they never show the reverse side of the bullet, which is flattened and has obviously hit something.
please leave me alone now. you’re a credulous nerd with no real information.
yes, Curt, it’s true. dumbfucks read books. I’ve been reading books for 66 years. man, how stupid am I?
run along, now. have a kibble. have a bit.
Wow, 66 years of reading and that was the best comeback you could muster? Must’ve skipped the critical thinking section. Don’t strain yourself—maybe stick to picture books from now on.
Then explain the neck shot from the front.
Explain the weight of the brain of the autopsy. there was a huge fairytale, one of many, the people had to accept. JFK, many had motives, Johnson and the CIA were only a piece of the puzzle.
Fun fact: Ford who took over for Nixon was on the Warren commission.
the ‘weight of the brain’ is a newer concoction. it’s just more BS. altho, we must admit the brain was still much heavier than your pea-sized vacancy.
fun fact: kitt thinks s/he is revealing an unknown fact about Ford…but it’s age-old Warren Conspiracy theory that goes back to before you were born.
now reveal to us with your wondrous brain that the sun will come up tomorrow.
Peter peddle your CIA fiction elsewhere, Before I was Born? You sound like you are are vaxxed , boosted and cant wait for the bird flu jabby.
oh! I have to run along. I’ve been dismissed. YOU are the one who can’t stand having your notions challenged.
nor was I vaxxed. god, what a tiny brained bigot you are.
it is fiction. Oswald’s second and third shots hit Jack in the back of the neck and skull.
It would be more difficult to take aim at a man in a moving car from the fourth story of a Building it sems it would be easier to take aim from Ground Level
the first shot, which deflected off a branch and struck the curb across the street, sending up a little chunk of concrete which hit a spectator’s cheek, causing it to bleed, startled Greer, the SS driver, at 66 the oldest of the detail, who proceeded to slow the car almost to a stop. terrible response. bang bang.
happy now? read CASE CLOSED by Posner.
I’ve been to the 4th Floor Museum. Anyone could make that shot. From ground level, the target would be moving away from him (with obstructions) much faster than from the 4th floor.
I think Oswald did the killing but was an agent of something else. What, exactly, remains to be seen.