Fact Check: Is Biden Blocking the Release of JFK Assassination Files?

[The Anonymous]

President Biden has further postponed the release of secret government files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, citing delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The files had originally been scheduled to be released by next week. They will now be released in two batches — one later this year and another in late 2022, Biden said in a White House memo Friday.

According to the memo, the postponement came at the recommendation of the national archivist, who said the pandemic “has had a significant impact on the agencies” responsible for reviewing each redaction in the documents.

“The Archivist has also noted that ‘making these decisions is a matter that requires a professional, scholarly, and orderly process; not decisions or releases made in haste,’” Biden wrote, adding that he agreed the agencies needed more time.

“Temporary continued postponement is necessary to protect against 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 immediate disclosure,” the president said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/23/biden-postpones-release-jfk-assassination-files-citing-pandemic-related-delays/

My rating? My pants are on fire.

[The Anonymous]

Biden has further postponed the release of secret government files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, citing delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The files had originally been scheduled to be released by next week.

President Donald Trump in 2017 announced he planned to publicly disclose the remaining JFK files. In 2018, Trump did end up authorizing the disclosure of 19,045 documents.

Jefferson Morley, the editor of JFKFacts.org who in 2003 sued the CIA for records related to the Kennedy assassination, said he was outraged by Biden’s decision to further postpone the release, calling it the “covid dog ate my homework" excuse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/23/biden-postpones-release-jfk-assassination-files-citing-pandemic-related-delays/

Thank you for correcting yourself.

[Jack]

CIA? Mafia? Russians? Cubans?

[The Anonymous]

CIA? Mafia? Russians? Cubans?

I hear that it was Ted Cruz who kept begging Biden to postpone it.

Ted Cruz is half Cuban. Coincidence?

[Jack]

I hear that it was Ted Cruz who kept begging Biden to postpone it.

Ted Cruz is half Cuban. Coincidence?

Does anybody know where Ted Cruz's Dad was in 1963?

[NiftyNiblick]

I don't care. I've got a rock solid alibi. It was a school day, Friday, I think, my senior year of high school,
and I still have a few living witnesses who can place me--I think.

I was an usher at a wedding the next day. I was seventeen. The bride, who was twenty, is still alive.
The groom, who was twenty-one, isn't. One of my lost drinking buddies.

[I looked better in a tux than he did, although he didn't look bad.
Actually, it wasn't actually an evening tux. It was one of those formal undertaker suits, I believe. JFK, ironically, was the last president inaugurated in one of those. They all wore regular suits after that.]

Their daughter, although maybe ten or eleven years old than mine, is a very good friend of my daughter here in town. She works for the city as well, although not as a cop.

All of which is totally irrelevant. Sorry for musing.