Douglas Caddy Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Is this a feasible strategy to obtain the JFK documents being withheld by the government? http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/foia-ryan-shapiro-fbi-files-lawsuit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 From “Five Myths about John F. Kennedy” By Larry J. Sabato Washington Post November 13, 2013 http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-john-f-kennedy/2013/11/13/bf1d1442-4b1a-11e3-be6b-d3d28122e6d4_story.html 5. Fifty years later, we know everything we’ll ever know about Kennedy’s assassination. Even a half-century later, we don’t have the complete story of the assassination. This is because many government documents remain classified and hidden. Reputable groups and individuals have estimated that there are 1,171 unreleased CIA documents concerning Nov. 22, 1963. The Center for Effective Government has even claimed that there may be more than 1 million unseen CIA records related to Kennedy’s assassination. No one can close the book on this subject without examining them. The Assassination Records Collection Act, signed by President George H.W. Bush in 1992, requires that all remaining documents about the Kennedy assassination be released by Oct. 26, 2017. The next president will rule on any requests from the CIA and other agencies that materials be withheld or redacted after 2017. Under the law, the president can do so only if there is “identifiable harm to military, defense, intelligence operations, or conduct of foreign relations, and the identifiable harm is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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