Tuesday, March 11, 2025

President Trump, Where Are Those Long-Secret JFK Records?

By Jacob G. Hornberger - March 11, 2025 at 08:18AM

It has now been two months since Donald Trump assumed the presidency. The question naturally arises: Where are those long-secret JFK Records that he repeatedly promised to release to the American people? Or to be more precise, why are those long-secret JFK records still secret? What’s up with the delay, President Trump?

After all, it takes about one minute to write and sign an executive order that states as follows: “I, President Donald Trump, hereby order the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon, the National Archives, the Secret Service, and all other federal entities to immediately disclose all records, files, documents, films, and other matters relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, including, but not limited to, the disclosure of all files and records relating to CIA official George Joannides, as well as the elimination of all redactions in JFK-related documents.”

It’s not as if Trump doesn’t know how to issue and sign an executive order. He’s issued more than 53 since he took office this time around. The first time he was president he issued 220 executive orders.

It’s worth pointing out that Trump did issue one executive order relating to those long-secret JFK records. On January 23, he ordered his Director of National Intelligence and his Attorney General to present Trump with a plan for the full and complete release of those long-secret JFK records.

A “plan”? Why a “plan”? Calling for a plan for disclosure and release is not exactly the same thing as ordering disclosure. What next? A committee to study the plan and make recommendations on modifying the plan? Why not just order disclosure? Why order a plan for disclosure?

As it turns out, that plan for releasing those long-secret JFK records was submitted to Trump on February 7, more than a month ago.

What did the plan say? We don’t know! The reason we don’t know is that Trump, for some unknown reason, has chosen to keep the plan secret from the American people.

What? A secret plan under the Trump administration for releasing those long-secret JFK records? Does that even make any sense? We now have secrecy piled onto secrecy under Trump! Trump hasn’t even explained why the plan has to be kept secret, but my hunch is that it has something to do with protecting “national security,” the two most important (and meaningless) words in the American political lexicon.

What’s really going on here? My hunch is what I’ve been saying the whole time about those long-secret JFK records, which is that the CIA simply will not permit Trump to release those long-secret records. The CIA has succeeded in keeping those long-secret records secret for more than 60 years. That includes an 11-year battle in federal court with former Washington Post reporter and current JFKfacts.org host Jefferson Morley over the continued secrecy of the CIA’s George Joannides records. (See FFF’s book Morley v. CIA: My Unfinished JFK Investigation by Jefferson Morley.) The CIA prevailed over Morley by convincing federal judges to keep the Joannides records secret. The CIA’s thirst for secrecy is also reflected by the CIA’s fierce opposition to a current lawsuit in federal district court over enforcement of the JFK Records Act of 1992.

Does anyone really think that after more than half-a-century of fiercely and successfully keeping those long-secret JFK-assassination-related records secret that the CIA is now now going to roll over and passively permit Trump to undo the CIA’s long-time success in keeping those records secret?

Let’s not forget that during Trump’s first term as president, he proudly announced that he was going to release those long-secret records. He repeatedly made that announcement up to the week of the statutory deadline. Then the CIA stepped in and had a conversation with Trump. After that conversation, Trump buckled and acceded to the CIA’s demand that those long-secret records continue to be kept secret.

My hunch is that this time around, the CIA has again informed Trump that it will not permit him to release those long-secret JFK records. That includes the records that were ordered to be released by the JFK Records Act back in 1992 and it also includes the CIA’s files relating to its officer George Joannides. My hunch is that Trump is too embarrassed to let people know that it is the national-security establishment (e.g., the CIA), not the president, that is ultimately in charge of running the federal government. But how long can Trump remain paralyzed over what to do before more people begin asking him about what he intends to do about those long-secret JFK assassination-related records?

Reprinted with permission from Future of Freedom Foundation.



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