{"id":1964264,"date":"2023-07-05T00:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T04:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-decries-biden-admins-withholding-of-some-jfk-assassination-records\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T00:40:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T04:40:48","slug":"rfk-jr-decries-biden-admins-withholding-of-some-jfk-assassination-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-decries-biden-admins-withholding-of-some-jfk-assassination-records\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. criticizes Biden Admin for withholding JFK assassination records."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frfk-jr-decries-biden-admins-withholding-of-some-jfk-assassination-records%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1964264&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Controversy Surrounds Postponement of JFK Assassination Records Release<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the afternoon of Friday before arguably one of the busiest holiday weekends in America, the Biden administration issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2023\/06\/30\/memorandum-on-certifications-regarding-disclosure-of-information-in-certain-records-related-to-the-assassination-of-president-john-f-kennedy-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memo<\/a> announcing that due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-got-it-newsmax-reporter-emerald-robinson-national-security-source-confirms-a-piece-of-hardware-has-been-secured-in-germany\/\" title=\"We Got It! - Newsmax Reporter Emerald Robinson: National Security Source Confirms \"A Piece of Hardware Has Been Secured\" in Germany\">national security<\/a>, it was going to postpone the release of certain classified documents relevant to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the quiet announcement on the eve of the July 4th weekend, it sparked off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hong-kong-broadcaster-disappears-report-on-missing-chinese-tennis-star-peng-shuai\/\" title=\"Hong Kong Broadcaster Disappears Report on Missing Chinese Tennis Star Peng Shuai\">outrage led<\/a> by\u00a0Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) who has in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-decries-biden-admins-withholding-of-some-jfk-assassination-records\/\" title=\"RFK Jr. criticizes Biden Admin for withholding JFK assassination records.\">recent times openly speculated<\/a> that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was behind his uncle\u2019s assassination and that he could be in danger from the agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a barrage of Twitter posts, Kennedy, who is gaining momentum against Joe Biden for the 2024 Democratic nomination for president, suggested a coverup.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe assassination was 60 years ago. What <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/patrick-buchanan-how-when-do-we-come-together-again\/\" title=\"Patrick Buchanan: How, When, Do We Come Together Again?\">national security secrets<\/a> could possibly be at risk? What are they hiding?\u201d he asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He blasted Biden for choosing the timing to cover the \u201cbad news\u201d he would be \u201cmaintaining secrecy indefinitely\u201d on JFK assassination records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kennedy charged that the postponement was an \u201cunlawful\u201d violation of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mandated the release of all government-held JFK assassination records no later than October 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The records have been kept with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The deadline to release the JFK assassination documents has been repeatedly extended including under the Trump Administration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, the law does include an exception in instances where the president certifies that a continued delay is \u201cmade necessary by an identifiable harm to the military defense, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-pick-for-pentagon-policy-chief-opposed-sending-troops-to-southern-border\/\" title=\"Biden Pick for Pentagon Policy Chief Opposed Sending Troops to Southern Border\">intelligence operations<\/a>, law enforcement, or conduct of foreign relations\u201d and the harm is \u201cof such gravity that it outweighs the public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In December, as part of a partial release of new records, Biden issued a signed agreement that the remainder would be released on June 30, the eve of the Independence Day weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Friday, the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/national-archives-releases-most-jfk-files-we-protect-what-we-must_5372138.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that more than 99 percent of the records have been publicly released. But in the memo signed by Biden, the president said that NARA\u2019s acting archivist recommended he postpone the public release of \u201ccertain redacted information\u201d in the records released back in December.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[C]ontinued postponement of public disclosure of that information is necessary to protect against identifiable harms to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, and the conduct of foreign relations that are of such gravity that they outweigh the public interest in disclosure,\u201d the memo states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biden also said that future release of the withheld JFK assassination records would\u00a0 \u201coccur in a manner consistent\u201d with a policy called the Transparency Plan, which was established by the National Declassification Center (NDC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Transparency Plans will ensure that the public will have access to the maximum amount of information while continuing to protect against identifiable harms to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, and the conduct of foreign relations under the standards of the Act,\u201d wrote Biden in the memo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since declaring his candidacy for president, Kennedy has become increasingly vocal about his <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of a busy holiday weekend, the Biden administration quietly announced the postponement of the release of classified documents related to JFK&#8217;s assassination, citing national security concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":1964265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1964264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1964265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}