An Exciting Day For Conspiracy Theorists: On October 26, 1992, President George H.W. Bush signed a law requiring that all documents related to JFK’s 1963 assassination be released within 25 years, unless the president believed that doing so would harm intelligence, law enforcement, military operations, or foreign relations. The drive for transparency was fueled in part by the American reaction to Oliver Stone’s 1991 film “JFK.” The US government was required by Thursday to release the final batch of files related to Kennedy’s assassination, but President Trump will delay the release of some of the files, citing security concerns. “As long as the government is withholding documents like these, it’s going to fuel suspicion that there is a smoking gun out there about the Kennedy assassination,” said Patrick Maney, a presidential historian at Boston College.
The last batch of assassination files include more than 3,100 documents (which altogether comprise hundreds of thousands of pages) that have never been viewed by the public. The National Archives released more than 2,800 documents on its website Thursday evening, but Trump delayed the release of the remaining files after last-minute appeals from the CIA and FBI. Trump cited “potentially irreversible harm” to national security if he were to allow all the records to be released now. Officials say Trump will make sure federal agencies understand that these remaining files should stay secret after their six-month review “only in the rarest cases.”
So, maybe after sifting through these final documents someone will be able to make the magic-bullet theory sensical? You know, the bullet that struck both President Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally. The bullet that took a trip through 15 layers of clothing, 7 layers of skin, approximately 15 inches of tissue, struck a necktie knot, removed 4 inches of rib, shattered a radius bone, and came out nearly pristine? None of us here at the Pnut are ballistics experts, but call us skeptical on that one.
Bill Introduced In Congress Amid Concerns Over Inadvertent War: Congressional Democrats have introduced legislation to prevent President Trump from starting a war. The Conyers-Markey bill, named “No Unconstitutional Strike against North Korea,” specifically prevents Trump from executing a pre-emptive attack. There are growing concerns about the administration’s failure to pursue diplomatic talks with Pyongyang, and Trump’s continued bellicose language, erratic behavior, and frequent threats via Twitter against other nations. Earlier this year, a bill was introduced prohibiting the president from ordering a strike with nuclear weapons without a declaration of war from Congress.
The bill will not pass without Republican support, but it does focus attention on the presidential authority to order use of nuclear weapons. Former US defense secretary and veteran of the Cuban missile crisis, William Perry, said there was escalating danger of the US stumbling into a war with North Korea by making Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un think an American attack was imminent, thereby panicking Kim into launching his own nuclear weapons to “go out in a blaze of glory,” Perry added the Conyers-Markey legislation was the best thing Congress could do to halt the drift toward nuclear war.
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