https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/04/26/trump-delays-release-of-some-jfk-files-until-2021-bowing-to-national-security-concerns/
Apr 26, 2018 — President Trump vowed last year to release all the long-secret files related to the JFK assassination, but the administration announced …
https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/the-jfk-records-act-will-there-be-a-final-chapter/
Sep 22, 2021 — — The JFK Act passed in 1992 required that all government agencies send any records concerning the JFK assassination to the National Archives …
https://theintercept.com/2021/10/20/jfk-assassination-papers-cia-release/
BIDEN FACES DEADLINE FOR RELEASE OF MORE JFK ASSASSINATION PAPERS
John F. Kennedy was assassinated 58 years ago, but the U.S. government has balked at the full release of some secret CIA documents.
Jefferson MorleyRex BradfordJefferson Morley, Rex Bradford
20 October 2021 1334
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN will soon decide an obscure but potent question: Which secret files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy should be made fully public?
When President Donald Trump faced the same decision four years ago, he delayed in the name of national security. While releasing thousands of files about the 1963 Kennedy assassination, Trump acquiesced to the demand of CIA Director Mike Pompeo to keep portions of thousands more secret until October 2021, 58 years after Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested as the gunman. For all his “deep state” rhetoric, Trump issued a memo giving the executive branch agencies four more years of secrecy.
https://transforming-classification.blogs.archives.gov/2021/09/28/pidb-submits-letter-to-president-biden-supporting-transparency-in-public-release-of-jfk-assassination-records/
Sep 28, 2021 — Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act (JFK Act). Passed in 1992, the JFK Act required all federal agencies and offices to identify, …
PIDB Submits Letter to President Biden Supporting Transparency in Public Release of JFK Assassination Records
September 28, 2021 By PIDB, Posted In Uncategorized
On September 27, 2021, the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) submitted a letter to President Biden unanimously encouraging the maximum public release of records under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act (JFK Act). Passed in 1992, the JFK Act required all federal agencies and offices to identify, organize, and transfer copies of all records regarding the JFK assassination to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
Although the JFK Act broadly required the public disclosure of the Kennedy assassination records collection under NARA’s custody, it empowered an independent Assassination Records Review Board to postpone temporarily specific records from public disclosure, using narrow criteria specified in the JFK Act.
Those temporary postponements expired on October 25, 2017. However, the JFK Act permitted agencies to petition the President to delay the public release of those records beyond that date. Then-President Trump subsequently approved agency requests, totaling about 14,000 records, and extended postponements until October 26, 2021. Agencies have now requested that President Biden delay the public release of approximately 12,000 records a second time.
Over the past eight months, the PIDB has received many letters and comments from the public on the continued postponement of the release of these records; the writers stressed their interest in seeing them declassified and released to the public, as the JFK Act intended. As the President contemplates whether to approve the agencies’ requests, the PIDB felt it important to add its voice by advocating for the declassification of as much information as possible.
The PIDB will continue to monitor the public release of these records to ensure proper application of the JFK Act criteria for postponing release of information. Additionally, the board may consider requesting a random sampling of documents to verify that agencies are following the review procedures established by the act.
The PIDB’s letter to President Biden is now posted on the PIDB’s website, see:
https://www.archives.gov/files/pidb/recommendations/pidb-potus-letter-jfk-assassination-records.pdf
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