Late on a Friday Night, Biden Guts the JFK Records Act
Mary Ferrell Foundation challenges president's order in federal court.
On June 30 President Biden issued an executive order asserting the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Act is no longer in effect.
“With my final certification made in this memorandum -– the last required under the Act – and definitive plans for future disclosures, my Administration is fulfilling the promise of transparency to the American people,” Biden declared, while acquiescing to demands of national security agencies that portions of thousands of assassination-related documents remain out of public view.
“On May 1, 2023, the Acting Archivist informed me that the review process was complete,” Biden stated, "and recommended that I postpone the public release of certain redacted information in the records certified for temporary postponement of public release in the December 2022 Memorandum.”
Biden’s order spurns the recommendation of Judge John Tunheim, former chair of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), who urged the president to implement full disclosure of all JFK files without exception.
Friday Night Lights Out
In a statement released late on Friday before a holiday weekend, a White House spokeswoman claimed “over 99 percent of the records in the [JFK assassination] collection are now publicly available at the National Archives,” without mentioning that “temporary postponement” means that several thousand assassination-related record remain fully or partially classified indefinitely. They include records on:
Significant portions of Operation Northwoods, the Pentagon’s false-flag operation to stage violent crimes in the United States and blame them on Cuba.
a CIA psychological warfare program involving Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin who denied killing the president.
Biden, who voted for the JFK Records Act in 1992, accepted the intelligence community’s claim that disclosure of these forty, fifty, and sixty year old documents will harm the United States in 2023. He stated:
“continued postponement of public disclosure of that information is necessary to protect against identifiable harms to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, and the conduct of foreign relations that are of such gravity that they outweigh the public interest in disclosure.”
Under the president’s order all decisions about the “future release of the information in these records shall occur in a manner consistent with the Transparency Plans described in section 5 of this memorandum.”
The Transparency Plan, written by the CIA, establishes the criteria for the National Security Agency to use in withholding sensitive material. Chad Nagle of the American Conservative has described the Transparency Plan as “sinister,” arguing it will actually keep thousands of assassination records secret for far longer than Congress intended.
Biden’s order turns over responsibility for JFK files to the National Declassification Center, an executive branch agency responsible for “public release of historically valuable permanent records while maintaining national security.” The president directed the NDC to
use the Transparency Plans to conduct future reviews of any information covered by the Act that has been postponed from public disclosure. The Transparency Plans will ensure that the public will have access to the maximum amount of information while continuing to protect against identifiable harms to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, and the conduct of foreign relations under the standards of the Act.”
The “identifiable harms” of releasing these ancient documents offered by the CIA and other agencies involve broad claims of national security that have been historically overstated or abused to justify unwarranted secrecy.
Lawsuit Challenges Biden
The Mary Farrell Foundation, which sued the president and National Archives last fall for failure to enforce the JFK Records Act, will be in federal court on July 13 seeking an injunction to block the Biden order.
The foundation’s attorneys, Bill Simpich and Larry Schnapf, have asserted in court filings that the Transparency Plans and the President’s prior executive order fail to comply with the JFK Records Act.
On June 8, the foundation filed a motion for injunctive relief seeking an order to declare the Transparency Plans as void and null, and to enjoin the president’s order.
The foundation has also asked the court to order the National Archives to complete the search of additional assassination records that were outstanding at the time the ARRB ceased operations in September 1998.
[For more information about the lawsuit, visit the foundation’s JFK Record Lawsuit page, or contact Mary Ferrell Foundation vice president Jefferson Morley.
BIDEN HAS TO REALIZE HE WILL PAY A POLITICAL PRICE FOR UNILATERALLY AND UNLAWFULLY PREMATURELY TERMINATING THE JFK ACT.
PLEASE CONTACT THE WHITE HOUSE TO EXPRESS YOUR OUTRAGE. ASK YOUR FRIENDS TO DO THE SAME.
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Because the JFK assassination was the defining moment of my life, I am going to also tell Biden that I will not vote for him (or for president at all if i dont like his opponent) until he orders the remaining records to be releasded in full. Others may not share the same view. This is a matter of conscious. But if share my sentiments, let him know.
Joe Biden is the perfect president for Deep State dirtbags trying to evade accountability for a past crime. They got away with it under the narcissist Trump, who only cared about avoiding a “sticky” situation that might mess up his hair. With brain-dead Biden they didn’t even have to show him anything to get him to sign the certification order. “Sign here, Mr. President.” No problem. What a waste of space our current commander-in-chief is. What a zombie and utter disgrace.