80,000 new documents — but nothing “earth-shattering” yet…
GAI Director of Research Seamus Bruner is recommending patience and caution as researchers and investigators review nearly 80,000 new documents released on the JFK assassination.
“I see people going off about ‘This shows this or this shows that.’ Intelligence reports are by no means true. Some people take them as gospel, but you should definitely not do that because oftentimes they’re not true,” Bruner said.
Bruner continued: “Just because a document says something doesn’t mean that that’s exactly what happened. There are a lot of things that have been previously known — and then later debunked. So it’s going to take some time to go through 80,000 pages, cross-reference them with what history has shown and what we know.”
President Trump’s Executive Order 14176 stated, “The continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of JFK is not consistent with the public interest, and the release of these records is long overdue.”
“Upon receiving the President’s decision, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard immediately sent out a directive across the [intelligence community] conveying his directive to provide all unredacted records within the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for immediate release,” a press release from Gabbard’s office reads.
Gabbard says Trump is ushering in a “new era of maximum transparency” by promising the declassification of records on the assassinations of Kennedy, former civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
Watch Bruner’s take above.
