CIA director John Brennan: why the agency is releasing JFK records it once said could never be released

Here's what CIA director John Brennan said last week:

For the first time ever, the Central Intelligence Agency is releasing en masse declassified copies of the President’s Daily Brief and its predecessor publications—some 2,500 documents from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. This is just the beginning—some 2,000 additional declassified PDB docume…