The documents are a precursor to a larger document dump expected this month from the National Archives. In 2021, President Joe Biden ordered the release of all documents relevant to the case. But, again, according to Newsweek, “Attorneys for the Mary Ferrell Foundation argued that the agencies have illegally stalled the release of more than 16,000 additional documents related to the case over concerns they could potentially compromise the names of individuals and the methods used in intelligence-gathering activities more than a half-century ago.”
The intelligence community needs to find another talking point. Whether it be journalists reporting on our war crimes, whistleblowers alerting the public to massive spying programs on American citizens, or 60 year old crimes, their excuse for covering up their tracks is always that giving the public information about how the government operates in secret may compromise the activities of the intelligence community. Give me a break.
First and foremost, we’ve never seen any concrete evidence to back that argument up in any of these scenarios. But secondarily, the Constitution and basic rule of law outrank the importance of whatever clandestine operations these bureaucrats have going on at the moment.
The American people deserve to know what the people our taxes fund are doing in our name, period. There’s certainly no argument that releasing the full truth on the JFK assassination 60 years later could meaningfully harm current operations. It’s just another excuse to block transparency and accountability.
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