It will be interesting to watch how this unfolds with new Intelligence Community heads moving into position to support or shape the request.
This specific Executive Order [SEE HERE] approach runs counter to my personal, albeit controversial, opinion on how the declassification of sensitive documents should be handled in order to deliver the highest level of transparency. However, this approach does keep the lawyers in charge of the executive office in legal control of the mechanics. The order essentially requires the nation’s security organizations to create plans to release the records.
Within the video, the first two executive orders are related to David Sacks and the Crypto/AI positions of the Trump administration. The rest of the Executive Orders are AVAILABLE HERE. Full Press Conference:
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Don’t get your hopes up. In my humble opinion this declassification request approach leads to nothing. Perhaps I will be wrong. I hope so, but prior experience shows big initial headlines and empty results.
FIRST, look at the XO:
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy and Purpose. More than 50 years after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Federal Government has not released to the public all of its records related to those events. Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth. It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay.
The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 required all records related to the assassination of President Kennedy to be publicly disclosed in full by October 26, 2017, unless the President certifies that: (i) continued postponement is made necessary by an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or conduct of foreign relations; and (ii) the identifiable harm is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure. President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, section 5(g)(2)(D), Public Law 102-526, 106 Stat. 3443, 3448–49, codified at 44 U.S.C. 2107 note.
I previously accepted proposed redactions from executive departments and agencies (agencies) in 2017 and 2018, but ordered the continued re-evaluation of those remaining redactions. See Temporary Certification for Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 82 Fed. Reg. 50,307–08 (Oct. 31, 2017); Certification for Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 83 Fed. Reg. 19, 157–58 (Apr. 26, 2018). In the Presidential Memorandum of April 26, 2018, I also ordered agencies to re-review each of those redactions over the next 3 years and disclose information that no longer warrants continued withholding under the standard set forth in section 5(g)(2)(D) of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.
President Biden issued subsequent certifications with respect to these records in 2021, 2022, and 2023, which gave agencies additional time to review the records and withhold information from public disclosure. See Temporary Certification Regarding Disclosure of Information in Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 86 Fed. Reg. 59,599 (Oct. 22, 2021); Certifications Regarding Disclosure of Information in Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 87 Fed. Reg. 77,967 (Dec. 15, 2022); Certification Regarding Disclosure of Information in Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 88 Fed. Reg. 43,247 (June 30, 2023).
I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue. And although no Act of Congress directs the release of information pertaining to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I have determined that the release of all records in the Federal Government’s possession pertaining to each of those assassinations is also in the public interest.
Sec. 2. Declassification and Disclosure. (a) Within 15 days of the date of this order, the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General shall, in coordination with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and the Counsel to the President, present a plan to the President for the full and complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
(b) Within 45 days of the date of this order, the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General shall, in coordination with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and the Counsel to the President, review records related to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and present a plan to the President for the full and complete release of these records.
Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. [LINK]
Here’s the alternative, controversial approach:
Dear Mr. President and White House counsel:
Understanding the ordinary process of declassifying documents is a request and authorization to the executive officers and stakeholders of classified information; and understanding the current authorization is not ordinary because the intelligence community stakeholders are averse to the interests of the office of the president; here is a process to cut through the chaff and countermeasures.
The background here is that any unilateral declassification request, demand or authorization by President Trump puts him opposition to a variety of corrupt interests.
As a direct result the executive office of the president will be facing legal action, likely from unified democrats and republicans in the legislative branch. With that accepted, here is the most strategic approach.
In anticipation of litigation:
President Trump informs the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, that he wishes to have a full intelligence briefing on the following documents (more may be added), all documents are to be presented without a single redaction:
The full and complete records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The full and complete records relating to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The President selects a date for this briefing and through direct orders to his chief of staff, Susie Wiles and National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, informs the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, to advise and coordinate with all executive branch intelligence officials, who were/are stakeholders in the compartmented intelligence products as described above, of their request be present for the briefing.
The White House counsel’s office is not to be informed of the intent or purpose of the meeting; however, the Presidents’ White House counsel is requested to attend. Further, all of the compartmented intelligence is to be collectively assembled by the ODNI (Gabbard) into one volume of a singular Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) although each set might be file boxes. There are to be eighteen printed copies of the PDB material assembled and secured for the briefing, post haste.
Additionally, the office of the president personally informs the ODNI (Gabbard) of the executives’ request to invite for the briefing each member of the legislative branch Intelligence Community oversight known as the Gang-of-Eight.
Immediately after the briefing by the executive level (cabinet) department officials, while remaining in a closed and classified session, the full and comprehensive content of this collective intelligence product will be discussed with the full assembly of the U.S. Legislative Branch Intelligence Oversight known as the Gang of Eight.
Therefore, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is instructed to coordinate with the ODNI (Gabbard) for the attendance of the Gang of Eight: Speaker Mike Johnson, Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, HPSCI Chairman Rick Crawford, HPSCI Ranking Member Jim Himes, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, SSCI Chairman Tom Cotton and SSCI Vice-Chair Mark Warner. [Topic “TBD”]
In order to facilitate the briefing. Each member of the participating group will be provided with one full printed copy of the material assembled by the ODNI during the briefing.
[Each of the participants carries the prerequisite clearances, legal and constitutional authority to engage with the classified documents according to their position and status. Only the executive can assemble the product for Go8 review and feedback]
At the conclusion of the briefing; and after hearing from, and engagement with, each of the participating members of the executive intelligence offices and duly authorized legislative oversight representatives; and after listening to their opinion as to the subject material discussed; the president announces to the fully assembled leadership of both the Executive branch (cabinet) and Legislative branch (Go8), it is his opinion the National Interests of the United States can best be served with the American people having a full, transparent and honest review of the material assembled and discussed.
The President, no-one else, only the President, [with his affirmed constitutional power and protection – as acting within his official duty] then collects the printed portfolios [or boxes] as they were distributed to the participants, exits the briefing, and walks directly into the James Brady press briefing room within the White House; handing each of the awaiting twelve members of the national media a copy of the briefing material to be published on behalf of the American people.
At exactly the same time as President Trump enters the briefing room, one copy of the assembled portfolio is hand delivered, by President Trump only, to White House communications director with instructions to scan and release the content to the public through the White House website.
Done.
The American people are aware…
We need to have Geraldo Rivera open the files on prime-time.
F rivera, POS liberal dickhead….
He’s been a close friend of Donald Trump for 45 years. Whatever you here on TV is an act and President Trump knows it.
Kinda like wrestling!
Are you anticipating an empty Al Capone vault?
If I remember correctly you put this same recommendation out or something very familiar the last time Trump ordered a declassification of documents.
Maybe someone is listening this time. Surely Trump and team understand the enemy within is not going to comply just as before when they blatantly ignored Trump.
Now it’s personal to him.
No way there is sensitive data here after half a century. All the principals or suspected principals are dead. What is left is potential official malfeasance perpetrated by people who are also dead. Current actors are trying to protect the institutional legacy of their agencies which are pretty much in the toilet anyway based on more recent activity.
Perhaps there are some in the swamp who have honor and made a paper or digital copy of everything of significance.
It may well end up being a nothing-burger, but President Trump promised he would do this and people want to see what is there.
At this point, I’m more interested in knowing the truth about the two recent assassination attempts on PDJT.
I’m with you on your comment. These people in charge of this material had 50+ year to clean it up. They aren’t for getting to the truth, just protecting the legacy of the institution just as you’ve mentioned. Boy wouldn’t it be nice if they actually did what was right? I’m not holding my breath.
That, and:
-It’s defensiveness by organizations which consider much of their power to be knowing things the people don’t.
-They consider themselves entitled to run the country, so the people commanding them is unnatural and wrong.
-If they allow this, it becomes harder to stop information about their “recent activity” becoming public.
Classification should sunset after 40 years, and so should spy agencies. (Personally, I think all bureaucracies should, with as little personnel and regulatory turnover to their replacements as possible.)
It will further demonstrate the democrat party malfeasance and willingness to commit treason against the people of the United States
we all know oswald had nothing to do with it and didn’t fire a single shot, not even at the cop that was killed by the deep state and they blamed oswald as well. The cia, mafia, gay edgar hoover’s fbi, johnson, and gov connelly and millionaires were all involved……
Sundance, so simple and practical. The kind of common sense thinking that we need in government. It is past time to stop treating the American people like illiterate children. If we can’t handle the truth now, when will we ever?
Please submit your ideas for declassification of the JFK files to our newly appointed chief of staff, Susie Wiles and National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard asap.
Seed the thought! Again! Never give up, never give in, never back down.
I truly believe exposing this long overdue truth will expose the apparatus and bring accountability to many bad actors, some of whom will be in the room during this ideal briefing. They deserve the opportunity to choke a bit.
And America deserves the opportunity to heal from this national travesty.
There is/was so many bad actors involved in these assignations it’s mind boggling to say the least.
I guess this will matter after 60+ years of obfuscation. Don’t ever expect them to give us everything they know. They will eliminate any names they want to, and it will be up to the citizen sleuths to figure out who those people were. If the Goobermint has spent 60 years telling everyone no, there must be reasons why that is. I don’t think any new administration will ever get to the bottom of this.
After this many years, the very few names that would appear will be dead or were never actually seen. It is good that Trump will release the information that still exists, but we will end up getting back to the business of rebuilding our Constitutional Republic. That should be foremost on all of our minds. We can learn from the past, but we can’t fix any of the past.
I wonder if there will be any new info on Zapata Oil? link below
https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/cia-bush-senior-oil-venture/
Bush has long denied allegations that he had connections to the intelligence community prior to 1976, when he became Central Intelligence Agency director under President Gerald Ford. At the time, he described his appointment as a ‘real shocker.’
But the freshly uncovered memos contend that Bush maintained a close personal and business relationship for decades with a CIA staff employee who, according to those CIA documents, was instrumental in the establishment of Bush’s oil venture, Zapata, in the early 1950s, and who would later accompany Bush to Vietnam as a “cleared and witting commercial asset” of the agency.
According to a CIA internal memo dated November 29, 1975, Bush’s original oil company, Zapata Petroleum, began in 1953 through joint efforts with Thomas J. Devine, a CIA staffer who had resigned his agency position that same year to go into private business. The ’75 memo describes Devine as an “oil wild-catting associate of Mr. Bush.” The memo is attached to an earlier memo written in 1968, which lays out how Devine resumed work for the secret agency under commercial cover beginning in 1963.
PS; I only bring up Zapata now because the Bush operations group is still alive and well in Florida, Texas, Colorado and Maine.
I’m curious what will happen when the truth comes out, but it needs to come out.
Enough with ALL the Jibbirish. Release ALL the Records. Let The People Have a Say Regards Them !!!
If you think about it, using Occam’s Razor:
Even if the key files have been disappeared, we can get closer to the truth by figuring out which main suspects have died since Trump first attempt to release the files during his first administration.
Remember that Pompeo at CIA was the one who convinced Trump to hold off…. So Pompeo almost certainly had learned the truth.
Bush 41 died in Nov 2018. It’s always been an outside shot that he was involved, due to many curious coincidences. At the very least, as head of CIA, 41 almost certainly knew the withheld facts.
There’s been a lot of really bad blood developing between Bush 43 since then, so who knows. That strange white envelope given out at 41’s funeral (to every POTUS except Trump and Carter) is still unexplained.
I’ll give it another try. “Dad’s son”…if you get rid of the apostrophe in your username, your comments will no longer get held up in moderation.
Dagnabbit, I used the apostrophe in my screen name again – force of habit. Sorry, Ad rem 🙁
Ah….Great, you got the message. (Just ignore my latest comment!) 😀
On second thought, I’m fine with this. I’m not sure how much of his own energy 47 should be expending on 60 year old conspiracies involving actors most of whom are either deceased already or are in memory units somewhere. That was then. This is now. With the WEF and the remainder of the globalist fascists, international adversarirs loooking to displace the dollar, and the remnants of the ghost in the machine still fighting an 80 year old fight, there are plenty of current dragons to take on. So … I’m fine he is handing this one off.
Oh and Ellison saying that with AI everyone will be on their best behavior? WTF?
do we really need a “plan”? just a straight file dump. no one else needs or should have a say in how its done. it would be great if the best parts could be read aloud in congress and get it entered in the record.
Remember that Trump said at one point how shocked the American people would be. The 45=day prep period is likely to finalize how best to break the news. The behind-the-scenes infighting will likely be epic. Also watch who leaves the country. Jest sayin’.
Sundance, I like your approach better. It seems much more straightforward, faster, and keeps President Trump in control more that the proposed plan. I hope he and his people read CTH!
It is way beyond time for the American people to see what our government did (or did not do) in these assassinations!
I’ve heard two comments about what the files contain:
1/ LBJ had JFK murdered.
2/ Just a nothing burger with some embarrassing details for the CIA.
If I had to guess, any real evidence of CIA involvement is long gone. There’s no reason I can think of to trust they keep any evidence of their own misdeeds and plenty of reason to believe they’d manufacture a coverup.
It wasn’t just the FBI and DOJ that had the shreaders running 24/7 for the past 10 weeks!
I would think as soon as POTUS collected that ensemble and all available information on controversial classified subject X, the Deep State would be acutely aware of what you have planned and your plans would be stymied before that meeting took place.
They’re kinda renown for it
I honestly don’t think there’s anything Trump or anyone else for that matter, can do to get them to release this information.
With that said though, I definitely think keeping them busy thwarting any effort to expose their dirt to the public is a win/win regardless. Anything that keeps people occupied with this type of stuff, prevents them from engaging in new illegal activities.
You make a great point Ted. Imagine you are the one in the group of 20 or so who’s job it is to ensure all executive orders get done and this is one you are responsible for. He is likely to get a response to the effect that if he pushes too hard he will be eliminated even if it takes years.
I doubt if there is any useful information left and what little might still be there is falling into the shredder as we speak. The ***turds got away with it.
18 months from now…
Okay, finally Mr President here’s the plan:
We don’t plan on releasing anything!
It is understandable why Trump would be in a hurry to disclose all of these events and the history behind them. He is a target of the same people and institutions that did the deed of JFK, RFK and MLK. If all that info is out there, if something happens to Trump…we all will be looking at those institutions, people, etc . Because they will likely be the culprits.
appropo visit to anbler.
hat tip..
continue to exceed expectations.
THIS IS WINNING.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
They are usually amateurs who find themselves unwillingly in the company of hardened criminals, revolutionaries or spies
I remain xtateless, but refuse to give up on the nation of nations THE UNITED CHRISTIAN SOVEREIGN SOCIETY of Men who OBEY GOD.
I am neither a amateur nor am I am member of hardened criminals…revolutionary, yes and well acquainted yes and that.
But for most, I am the river man.
Your eye coins have no meaning..crossing this river will demand more than some metallic scheme.
to the iniitiated, prepare for the trials
to those who have confessed and have made amends, fear not. Promises will be provided the choices and the actions you have made.
To everyone wondering who the culprit is, it’s CIA Chief of Counterintel and Israeli asset, James Angleton. The reason, was JFK’s insistence on weapons inspections at the Dimona nuclear plant. At the time, Israel was claiming it was peacefully engaged in uranium enrichment for power (sound familiar) but it was in fact a weapons manufacturing facility. RFK was killed to maintain the coverup.
Again ?