Morley: Late on a Friday Night, Biden Guts the JFK Records Act

[James DiEugenio]

Chad Nagle chimes in:

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-divine-right-of-joe-biden/

[Benjamin Cole]

11 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

Chad Nagle chimes in:

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-divine-right-of-joe-biden/

How sad. What used to be the "liberal" press has gone mute, or become an appendage of state propaganda regarding the JFK Records Act, as in CNN. 

We have to rely on The American Conservative? That's it? That is who cares anymore about assassinating presidents and covering it up? 

The Messenger did a good job, a new outfit, with heavy backing.  We will see how long that lasts. 

See here: https://themessenger.com/news/rfk-jr-its-very-disturbing-that-biden-refused-to-release-more-jfk-assasination-docs

Also, a big money backer for RFK Jr.? 

https://themessenger.com/business/billionaire-investor-bill-ackman-appears-ready-to-back-rfk-jr-and-his-anti-vax-views

Lots going on. I will try to keep EF-JFKA informed, if allowed. 

 

[James DiEugenio]

This is now up at Kennedys and King.

And I just posted it at FB and Twitter. 

https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/action-alert-biden-and-the-cia-turn-the-lights-out

[Robert Burrows]

On 7/1/2023 at 11:11 PM, Pamela Brown said:

Have we discussed Morley's article on Bob Dylan's Murder Most Foul?  It fits right in to this discussion...

https://lithub.com/what-bob-dylan-does-or-doesnt-know-about-the-assassination-of-jfk/

Another Dylan lyric seems apropos to this discussion...

 

Democracy don’t rule the world,

You’d better get that in your head.

This world is ruled by violence;

But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

(Bob Dylan- Union Sundown)

 

 

Edited July 6, 2023 by Robert Burrows

[Benjamin Cole]

I wonder what is up with AG Merrick Garland? 

He was touted about as Mr Integrity, and Mr Law. Now his Justice Department did an illegal snuff job on the JFK Records Act, as instructed by President Biden? Or the intel community? 

[Benjamin Cole]

Mark Groubert runs an interesting show, largely devoted for the last couple of years to the JFKA. Pretty good stuff. 

For Groubert's take on the the JFK Records Act being "gutted" by Biden/Garland, see above. Groubert calls Biden a "dictator."

Maybe it is Banana Republic time USA. The law says the JFK Records must be released, and the AG and President do not release the records. 

Maybe "dictator-puppet" more accurately describes Biden. 

I understand Biden---he may not be working on all cylinders, and has dirty linen to fill the Grand Canyon. Better to go along. 

But why is Garland going along with this? 

 

 

Edited July 7, 2023 by Benjamin Cole

[Benjamin Cole]

Worth watching. These guys have been covering the JFKA story for a while. 

[Benjamin Cole]

Will Biden, the latest accessory after the fact on the JFKA, even survive the primaries? 

Loooonnnggg knives out for Biden?

IDEAS

Step Aside, Joe Biden---The Atlantic

The president has no business running for office at age 80.

By Eliot A. Cohen

[W. Niederhut]

 

1 hour ago, Benjamin Cole said:

Will Biden, the latest accessory after the fact on the JFKA, even survive the primaries? 

Loooonnnggg knives out for Biden?

IDEAS

Step Aside, Joe Biden---The Atlantic

The president has no business running for office at age 80.

By Eliot A. Cohen

Ben,

    This is the second time today that you have posted this same Eliot Cohen Atlantic article here on the JFKA forum-- on one of your many redundant anti-Biden threads.

    What does this Atlantic article have to do with the JFK assassination, and why are you posting it here, instead of on your MAGA Water Cooler board, or on the Political Discussion board?

    

[Benjamin Cole]

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/biden-washes-his-hands-of-jfk-assassination-records-16962174

Not a bad story on the Biden JFK Records snuff job. 

Is President Biden 'Washing His Hands' of JFK Assassination Records?

JACOB VAUGHN JULY 6, 2023 7:00AM

Last December, President Joe Biden’s administration released more than 13,000 documents related to the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. However, some 3% of the JFK documents were still redacted or withheld from release. In a memo on Friday, the Biden Administration said it was choosing to continue to withhold some of those documents. Others will be released. To date, about 99% of the documents have been released.

“This action reflects [President Biden’s] instruction that all information related to President Kennedy’s assassination should be released except when the strongest possible reasons counsel otherwise,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Friday, according to CNN.

The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 set a 2017 deadline for the release of all related documents, but the release has been delayed time and again. The 2017 deadline was waived by former President Donald Trump, and the Biden Administration has continued to withhold some of the documents “to protect against an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.”

On May 1, the acting archivist of the United States recommended that the release of certain redacted documents be temporarily postponed. Some documents that were previously withheld, however, were scheduled for release by Friday. Between April and June, the National Archives and Records Administration put out 2,672 documents with new information regarding the JFK assassination, according to the archive’s website. There’s no information on when the rest of the documents will be released.
The National Archives and Records Administration did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.

In an emailed statement, Nicola Longford, an executive director for Dallas' Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, a JFK assassination museum housed in the building from which alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald shot, said: "These much-anticipated releases may provide additional insights to researchers and historians, helping to advance the museum’s mission helping to place into context the assassination of President Kennedy. We anticipate that the availability of previously withheld records could lead to a broader understanding of the assassination and the time period."

One person who took issue with the delayed release was Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “It’s not about conspiracy – it is about transparency,” JFK’s nephew said in a post on Twitter.

He called the White House’s announcement unlawful. “In 1992 the JFK Records Act was passed unanimously by Congress with the promise that all assassination related records would be released no later than October 2017,” Kennedy wrote. He said this promise has been broken by Biden’s recent announcement.

Kennedy said that trust in government is at an all-time low and that releasing the rest of the documents could be a small step toward restoring that trust. Of course, this is the same Kennedy who doubts the effectiveness of vaccines and, according to Rolling Stone, says that “vaccine research has actually created some of the worst plagues in our history.”

“The president is out of the picture." – Jefferson Morley, Mary Ferrell Foundation

Some more serious voices on the JFK assassination documents can be found at the Mary Ferrell Foundation, which maintains the largest online archive of JFK assassination documents. It was named after a legal secretary who was working in downtown Dallas on the day of the assassination. Ferrell and her sons compiled records on the assassination until she died at the age of 81 in 2004. The foundation’s work, however, continues.

It sued the Biden Administration in October in an attempt to get the remaining JFK documents released. The suit claims that JFK assassination documents have been unlawfully redacted and withheld from public disclosure.

The last time records were released, back in December, a memo from the president set a June 30 deadline for the release of the remaining documents. However, this time around there’s no such deadline.

Biden said in his memo that this was the last certification he would be doing on the JFK assassination records. Instead of having the president authorize the release of records, intelligence agencies like the CIA submitted what Biden called transparency plans to the National Archives that will help determine the release of records going forward.

Journalist Jefferson Morley, vice president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation and editor of jfkfacts.org and its Substack newsletter, told the Observer, “The president is out of the picture,” when it comes to the remaining documents. “So, he’s washing his hands of JFK records,” Morley said. “That’s not a service to history, and it’s not consistent with the law. The JFK records act says the president has certain nondelegable duties and he has delegated his duties.”

The Mary Ferrell Foundation will be in court on July 13 in San Francisco, where it will argue for an injunction to stop the implementation of the transparency plans because it’s a violation of the law, he said.

People might say that there’s nothing new in the recently released records or the ones that haven’t been released yet, Morley said. “That is simply false,” he said. “We’ve had a bunch of really interesting releases in the past six months.”

For example, a memo released in December said a CIA station in Miami conducted its own JFK assassination investigation, Morley said. The memo, which detailed the investigation, was written by an undercover CIA officer named Donald Heath. This investigation was taking place at a time when many said that Oswald had acted alone, and there was nothing else to it, Morley said. The results of this CIA Miami investigation have never been made public.

“So, the Heath memo is a very significant document because it shows that the official story was doubted from day one, not by conspiracy theorists but by the CIA itself,” Morley said.

Another example is a memo written by historian Arthur Schlesinger, who was a special assistant and court historian to President Kennedy. He wrote a memo to the president in 1961 after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. According to Morley, Kennedy was thinking of reorganizing the CIA after the failure of the invasion, and he asked Schlesinger how to do it. Schlesinger wrote a five-page memo talking about problems that the CIA causes for U.S. foreign policy. One and a half pages of this memo were redacted by the CIA. “It’s outrageous,” Morley said.

In December, the memo was released again, with just one more sentence unredacted. This is one of the documents at issue in the Mary Ferrell Foundation lawsuit.

The lawsuit asks for the release of several other specific sets of documents. These include files on three CIA officers tied to Oswald and a 1962 Defense Department false flag plan called Operation Northwoods, which called for a staged violent incident in the U.S. to be blamed on Cuba.

The suit claims records regarding plots to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, a JFK-related document from Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt’s security file and 44 other documents related to a CIA agent named George Joannides have been unlawfully redacted as well. Joannides operated a covert Cuba-related program that allegedly came into contact with Oswald months before the assassination of JFK.

“They’re acting like they have something to hide,” Morley said. “So, the most reasonable conclusion is they have something to hide. That’s what they’re telling us. That’s what they’re acting like. So, that’s where we’re at.”

Now, Morley said, the fight for the documents will mostly take place in court. “What Biden did was he kind of slammed the door on working through the process as it has existed,” Morley said. “So, now the struggle really does move to court. We can’t work within the system anymore.”

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Morley said Biden had duties in regard to the JFK Records, and he delegated those duties, in violation of law. 

Another case of "the buck does not stop here." 

 

 

[W. Niederhut]

Yet another redundant "Biden snuff job" article on the JFKA forum today, Ben?  Geez...  🙄

You're like a 5th grader who keeps shooting spitballs to see if the teacher will send him to the principal's office.

At least this latest redundant July 6th article mentions the "JFK records"-- unlike the anti-Biden Atlantic article that you posted on two different "Biden snuff job" Ben Cole threads yesterday.

You have, obviously, been using the "JFK records" sound byte as a pretext to post redundant anti-Biden MAGA spam on the JFKA forum, ever since the 56 Years thread was removed from the JFKA forum.

But didn't Mark Knight set up a "Biden" board for you earlier this year, after you complained about criticism of the Trump cult?

Shouldn't your anti-Biden MAGA spam be posted on your "Biden" board, or at your MAGA Water Cooler thread?

Edited July 9, 2023 by W. Niederhut

[Pamela Brown]

On 7/6/2023 at 4:30 AM, Robert Burrows said:

Another Dylan lyric seems apropos to this discussion...

 

Democracy don’t rule the world,

You’d better get that in your head.

This world is ruled by violence;

But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

(Bob Dylan- Union Sundown)

 

 

Amazing. 

[Pamela Brown]

Hmmm.....

https://libertyonenews.com/declassified-jfk-documents-reveal-swedish-man-predicted-jfks-assassination-just-weeks-before/?utm_source=L1 Newsletter 1&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:62182745&utm_campaign=1688670056 WHOA! Look ... (Duplicate %232)

[Pamela Brown]

On 7/4/2023 at 6:33 PM, Marjan Rynkiewicz said:

I have already told. Hickey shot jfk.

That would be a surprise!

[Marjan Rynkiewicz]

3 hours ago, Pamela Brown said:

That would be a surprise!

Someone who knows (ie the ex pres)(the donald), said it would be horrible news.

And that we would soon know (ie when SSA Hill dies).