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Politico Opposes Public Access to Information, Says JFK Document Dump Could Be a Fiasco
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:08 am
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:08 am
quote:Phil Shenon and Larry Sabado apparently feel this information is dangerous. They feel the public's presumed intellectual inability to understand should trump any right to access. Apparently Shenon and Sabado (who also likes to control info through polling) also feel only they are qualified, through apparently superior skills and understanding, to have such access.
The JFK Document Dump Could Be a Fiasco
By PHILIP SHENON and LARRY J. SABATO
October 16, 2017
Later this month, the National Archives is set to release thousands of documents about John F. Kennedy’s assassination. It’s likely to fuel conspiracy theorists for years.
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The federal government’s long campaign to try to choke off rampant conspiracy theories about the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy is threatening to end this month in massive confusion, if not chaos.
Within the next two weeks, the National Archives is legally obligated to release the last of thousands of secret documents from government files about the assassination, most of them from the CIA, FBI and the Justice Department.
And there is every indication that the massive document dump—especially if any of it is blocked by President Donald Trump, the only person empowered under the law to stop the release of the files—will simply help fuel a new generation of conspiracy theories.
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As it stands now, the document release this month will be a logistical nightmare, with the public suddenly flooded with a huge online library of documents—tens of thousands in total—that will be, at first, mostly incomprehensible even to experienced students of the assassination. The National Archives, abandoning its plans to release the documents in batches over the course of several months, said this week that it will instead release everything at once—all on the same day—sometime between now and the deadline on October 26.
We both published books in 2013 about the assassination and had a taste of the chaos to come back in July, when the Archives tried an online release of a relatively small portion of the secret documents, including about 400 never-before-seen files. The Archives’ computer servers were instantly overwhelmed, making it impossible to download any of the material for days. When the files could be downloaded, many of those documents proved to be illegible, or were so full of CIA and FBI code names and other jargon that it will take months or years to make sense of them.
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Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:12 am to NC_Tigah
This Politico self admitted Democrat hack agrees.
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:12 am to NC_Tigah
Imagine how bad this stuff is if they're fighting it this hard 50 years later.
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:12 am to NC_Tigah
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only they are qualified, through apparently superior skills and understanding, to have such access.
only the high priests may access the sacred texts
what could possibly go wrong?
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:12 am to NC_Tigah
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This post was edited on 4/3/23 at 2:39 am
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:13 am to NC_Tigah
Unless I'm lacking in my understanding of the word chaos, I don't view this information as being particularly dangerous.
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:24 am to Erin Go Bragh
WaPo says he authorized the major release.
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:29 am to NC_Tigah
quote:.
that will be, at first, mostly incomprehensible even to experienced students of the assassination
Translation: The public is too dumb to figure out what happened. Only smart government and media types can handle sensitive information. How condescending.
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:34 am to NC_Tigah
quote:They're worried about conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK case? Like we've had for the last 50 years?
It’s likely to fuel conspiracy theorists for years.
You know one good way to perpetuate conspiracy theories? Hide stuff.
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:34 am to NC_Tigah
Larry Sabato has publicly missed on the 2000, 2004, and 2016 elections and people still somehow trust him
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:35 am to NC_Tigah
Keeping government documents secret from over 50 years ago, where all actors from said incident are deceased, drives conspiracy theories more than releasing them. This isn't about preventing conspiracy theories, its about two state-worshipping authoritarians trying to prevent the American public from accessing documents relevant to the murder of their President.
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:37 am to NC_Tigah
maybe they are worried that this will be months of distraction away from Trump, muh Russians, Vegas shooter, tax reform, etc., etc.
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:37 am to NC_Tigah
INB4: FT, Ethan L et al... say: Maybe Politico can ask CNN to let Cuomo only; tell us whats in the documents if he sees fit.
This post was edited on 10/21/17 at 8:46 am
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:52 am to NC_Tigah
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Politico Opposes Public Access to Information
These guys aren’t opposing public release and they have a point about how rushes to judgment about the docs could lead to misreporting. Also, this is an op-ed not a Politico editorial.
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:53 am to SCLibertarian
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its about two state-worshipping authoritarians trying to prevent the American public from accessing documents relevant to the murder of their President.
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:56 am to Decatur
If I asked you this already, sorry- I forget the answer. Whose campaign did you work for HRC's or Bern's?
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:56 am to NC_Tigah
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Phil Shenon and Larry Sabado
Are paid for their propaganda.
Posted on 10/21/17 at 8:59 am to MadDoggyStyle
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Translation: The public is too dumb to figure out what happened. Only smart government and media types can handle sensitive information. How condescending.
Only CNN’s interpretation is the legal interpretation.
Posted on 10/21/17 at 9:01 am to NC_Tigah
This shite was supposed to be released by a congressionsal measure. This is bullshite.
Posted on 10/21/17 at 9:01 am to Decatur
The American public deserved to see these documents 5 decades ago. The idea that there is any justification to keep classified documents pertaining to the murder of our chief executive is ludicrous.
The left has thrown their lot in with the spooks in the CIA and NSA just to oppose Trump. Now you're defending two men who think government transparency is dangerous.
The left has thrown their lot in with the spooks in the CIA and NSA just to oppose Trump. Now you're defending two men who think government transparency is dangerous.
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