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NARA Releases More JFK Records, as President Biden Approves Few Delays

December 19, 2022 By PIDB, Posted In Uncategorized

On December 15, 2022, pursuant to the latest White House memorandum on the disclosure of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) released 13,173 records previously withheld by the federal government. These newly disclosed records are available online in NARA’s JFK Assassination Records Collection, which has increased by increments since 1992. The collection and review of these records is governed by the JFK Assassination Records Act (JFK Act).

Following the postponement of disclosure to October 25, 2021, by President Trump, President Biden set new deadlines and certified the postponement of disclosure for all JFK records still withheld through December 15, 2022. The 13,173 records released in accordance with President Biden’s most recent memorandum meet that deadline for all records subject to the JFK Act, but exclude 515 documents withheld in full and another 2,545 documents withheld in part.

Consistent with the JFK Act, and the recommendation of NARA’s Acting Archivist of the United States, President Biden’s current memorandum certifies that all JFK Assassination Records that agencies have proposed for continued postponement under the JFK Act “shall be withheld from public disclosure until June 30, 2023” (White House Memorandum, Section 4, Temporary Certification, December 15, 2022). These records are to be reviewed by NARA and the relevant agencies by May 1, 2023, to submit any requests for further postponement beyond June 30.

Finally, the Biden memorandum requires that agencies reviewing withheld JFK records prepare “Transparency Plans” to be reviewed by NARA, and used by the National Declassification Center (NDC) at NARA, “to ensure that information would continue to be disclosed over time as the identified harm associated with release of the information dissipates” (White House Memorandum, Section 7, December 15, 2022). Transparency Plans submitted by agencies to the NDC will detail “event-based or circumstance-based conditions that will trigger the public disclosure of currently postponed information” by the NDC at NARA.

The release of additional JFK records complies with the rigorous process for agencies to review and request the postponement of disclosures that President Biden certified in December 2021. The additional requirement in this year’s certification that agencies must submit transparency plans to the NDC and NARA in order to request any further disclosure postponements beyond June 2023 should further improve the process.

The Public Interest Declassification Board supports these advances toward government transparency, and will continue to remain engaged to insure that departments and agencies comply with the JFK Records Act and the President’s instructions. In the coming months the Board intends to conduct a sampling of records that remain classified and meet with originating agencies to understand the rationale behind continued withholding from public release.

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Harvey Weinstein found guilty of rape in Los Angeles trial

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a month-long trial and nine days of deliberations, Los Angeles jurors on Monday found Harvey Weinstein guilty of the rape and sexual assault of just one of the four accusers he was charged with abusing.

But the three guilty counts involving an Italian actor and model known at the trial as Jane Doe 1 still 'struck a major blow against the disgraced movie mogul, and provided another #MeToo moment of reckoning, five years after he became a magnet for the movement.

Weinstein, 70, who is two years into a 23-year sentence for a rape and sexual assault conviction in New York that is under appeal, could get up to 24 years in prison in California when he’s sentenced.

He was found guilty of rape, forced oral copulation and another sexual misconduct count involving the woman who said he appeared uninvited at her hotel room door during a Los Angeles film festival in 2013.

“Harvey Weinstein forever destroyed a part of me that night in 2013 and I will never get that back. The criminal trial was brutal and Weinstein’s lawyers put me through hell on the witness stand, but I knew I had to see this through to the end, and I did,” the woman said in a statement after the verdict. “I hope Weinstein never sees the outside of a prison cell during his lifetime.”

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https://apnews.com/article/harvey-weinstein-verdict-los-angeles-rape-trial-1a3a9db4e4589a9e0fb03214bc01fecf

Loy Brunson on Tuesday's Connecting the Dots

Radio/Podcast with Dan Happel

The U.S. Supreme Court represents the last line of defense for Americans against illegal acts by those in national elective office.

Will Lady Justice uphold the rule of law under original intent, or abdicate her sacred responsibility to protect and defend we the people against all enemies, foreign and domestic? The America we thought we knew has morphed into a 21st Century Marxist police state with Rule of Law meaning little more than rule by a lawless political class that clings tenaciously to the reins of power. Individual rights, personal responsibility, private property and open and fair elections are little more than meaningless platitudes in a society living under coerced police state rule. The American justice system originally constituted by the Founders was to act as a safeguard against Executive and Legislative overreach; acting as a final arbitor and protector on behalf of the Constitution and we the people. Sadly, the Judiciary has suffered from much of the same cancerous moral decline that is impacting the rest of American society, becoming increasingly political and subjective rather than apolitical and objective in their traditional role as jurists. We can only pray that true justice prevails once again.

Although overwhelming evidence of election fraud and tampering was reported by eye witnesses from across America, the downstream media in collusion with the Democrat Party and establishment Republicans have very effectively demonized anyone suggesting malfeasance in the election process for the past 2 years. An attempt to have the electoral inconsistencies surrounding the 2020 Presidential Election brought before Congress and the American people on January 6, 2021 ended in disaster when the entire rally at the Capitol was mischaracterized as a riot and an attempt to overthrow the government by a mob of crazed maniacs whipped into a frenzy by the out of control megalomaniac; Donald J. Trump. Carefully staged damage to the Capitol Building by insiders was effective in labeling anyone present as radical and violent. Four civilians died at the hands of the Capitol Police and 1 police officer died the next day as a consequence of a stroke and the negligence of his fellow officers, but every death was mischaracterized as being caused by out-of-control rioters, and the entire hearing process scheduled to happen on January 6th at the Capitol was very conveniently and unceremoniously curtailed with no further action.

The integrity of the American election process is central to our system of constitutional, representative government. This is an absolute that should be inviolable, irrespective of political affiliation. What is good for the goose is good for the gander and no legitimate leader would ever want to destroy a system that guarantees election integrity, unless of course that leader is illegitimate and knows it. The mere suggestion of election impropriety should have been addressed on a national scale, especially when polls clearly indicated concern by 50 % of Americans comprising all political affiliations. Legal questions and challenges abounded, but the Courts refused to do their duty and act responsibly on behalf of the American people. The question was and is……why? Although major election reforms to improve transparency were requested by a majority of Americans after the 2020 General Election, the system is virtually untouched and was made even less secure from fraud by expanding mail-in voting and same-day registration laws on a national scale. Courts ignored state voter laws and upheld administrative fiat as superior under the color of Covid mandates that are clearly unconstitutional.

The answer to this judicial madness is coming from a very unlikely source. Four trumpet playing brothers from Ogden Utah have filed an action: Raland J.Brunson v. Alma S. Adams that is currently on the SCOTUS schedule for review on January 6, 2023. In a nutshell, the Appellant (Brunson) has requested judgement and relief for willful/intentional circumvention of well established U.S. law by 291 Members of Congress, 94 U.S. Senators, Joseph Biden, Kamala Harris and Vice President Michael Pence when requested to provide a mandated 10 day pause and public review of the numerous claims of election fraud before certification of the election results. This was in direct violation of their Oaths of Office and constitutes an act of treason and an act of war against the lawful Electors of the United States. This may be the single most important Supreme Court decision in American history. If SCOTUS fails to act as the last line of defense of the American people's right to free, transparent, and honest elections, America will cease to exist as a beacon of liberty for humanity.

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