Yesterday, one subject dominated social media’s attention— the long-awaited JFK document release. The Times of Israel ran its story headlined, “Trump administration makes public thousands of files related to JFK assassination.” The sub-headline added, “About 2,200 files of over 63,000 pages posted to US National Archives, but no narrative-changing revelations expected; some documents deal with CIA ploys against Cuba’s Castro.”
It is wall-to-wall hot takes. My first attempt to sort through all the independent takes on social media turned up outright fakes, ham-handed edits trying to boost narrative appeal and clicks, recycled, long-released documents claimed to be newly released, and overall it was something like a giant Rorschach test wherein influencers large and small declared with no hesitation or reservation whatsoever having conclusively scryed in the fog of early releases whatever predetermined conclusion they had long hoped to find.
Here’s what we know for sure. Tulsi Gabbard tweeted, somewhat ambiguously, that previously redacted files would be released without redactions. An attached press release said only, “the … and … RothXXXX … sausage.” The rest was blacked out. Haha, just kidding.
The unredacted press release used slightly different language from our Samoan-Hawaiian NSI Director, saying the “release consists of approximately 80,000 pages of previously classified records that will be published with no redactions.”
What we got yesterday obviously isn’t all of them. Some documents weren’t included in this dump, including “documents only available for in-person viewing,” those “withheld under court seal or for grand jury secrecy, records subject to section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code,” and a weathered carton of classified papers stored in Joe Biden’s garage that was mostly empty anyways.
The press release said the National Archives and the DOJ are working diligently, day and night (so to speak), on unsealing and uploading those final categories, but, as the press release pointed out, visitors and grand juries have already seen them.
The rushed document release was understandably unorganized, unsummarized, and unannotated, which instantly provoked horse-laughs of criticism and faux outrage. “This dump is profoundly more impenetrable than all the previous more annotated ones,” sniped David J. Garrow, a historian “who has written extensively about the intelligence agencies,” who spoke to the New York Times.
Mr. Garrow’s critique echoed across social media. Apparently, folks expected that the government not only would release the unredacted documents but also would highlight the smoking guns and feed them to us with an unredacted spoon. Don’t cancel me, but that optimistic expectation may have been slightly, just a smidge, unrealistic.
The New York Times’s story agreed, saying, “Some documents appeared to have been versions of papers already released to the public. Others had no obvious connection to the assassination. It is also possible that Tuesday’s initial release did not include all the documents covered by Mr. Trump’s order.”
In other words, it’s still murky.
As far as I can tell from the first 12 hours of hot takes, there was some interesting new material released about the CIA’s Cold War dirty tricks and spy techniques that have intrigued some long-time deep-state watchers. For example, here’s Mike Benz:
It’s a little wonky, but it seems the documents confirm that the CIA and related spy agencies were busy little beavers back then, creating libraries of anti-communist propaganda. Until 2020, I would have fully endorsed that, except that the deep-state’s narrative-spinning machine appears to have now been aimed back against us.
Just for flavor, here’s one wonky example of newly disclosed CIA work product:
Try imagining a conference room of CIA spooks drafting children’s cartoon books, distributed in the sixties in their millions. So … what is the CIA up to these days? Transgender comics for school kids?
An emerging consensus among the trained reviewers was that these documents appear originally redacted to protect CIA methods rather than conceal a ‘real’ assassin. But again, it’s early, and that emerging consensus could still shift.
At this point, all we know for sure is that a lot of historically interesting documents have been released, nobody has yet found a smoking redaction pen, and we haven’t seen them all yet.
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It is wall-to-wall hot takes. My first attempt to sort through all the independent takes on social media turned up outright fakes, ham-handed edits trying to boost narrative appeal and clicks, recycled, long-released documents claimed to be newly released, and overall it was something like a giant Rorschach test wherein influencers large and small declared with no hesitation or reservation whatsoever having conclusively scryed in the fog of early releases whatever predetermined conclusion they had long hoped to find.
Here’s what we know for sure. Tulsi Gabbard tweeted, somewhat ambiguously, that previously redacted files would be released without redactions. An attached press release said only, “the … and … RothXXXX … sausage.” The rest was blacked out. Haha, just kidding.
The unredacted press release used slightly different language from our Samoan-Hawaiian NSI Director, saying the “release consists of approximately 80,000 pages of previously classified records that will be published with no redactions.”
What we got yesterday obviously isn’t all of them. Some documents weren’t included in this dump, including “documents only available for in-person viewing,” those “withheld under court seal or for grand jury secrecy, records subject to section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code,” and a weathered carton of classified papers stored in Joe Biden’s garage that was mostly empty anyways.
The press release said the National Archives and the DOJ are working diligently, day and night (so to speak), on unsealing and uploading those final categories, but, as the press release pointed out, visitors and grand juries have already seen them.
The rushed document release was understandably unorganized, unsummarized, and unannotated, which instantly provoked horse-laughs of criticism and faux outrage. “This dump is profoundly more impenetrable than all the previous more annotated ones,” sniped David J. Garrow, a historian “who has written extensively about the intelligence agencies,” who spoke to the New York Times.
Mr. Garrow’s critique echoed across social media. Apparently, folks expected that the government not only would release the unredacted documents but also would highlight the smoking guns and feed them to us with an unredacted spoon. Don’t cancel me, but that optimistic expectation may have been slightly, just a smidge, unrealistic.
The New York Times’s story agreed, saying, “Some documents appeared to have been versions of papers already released to the public. Others had no obvious connection to the assassination. It is also possible that Tuesday’s initial release did not include all the documents covered by Mr. Trump’s order.”
In other words, it’s still murky.
As far as I can tell from the first 12 hours of hot takes, there was some interesting new material released about the CIA’s Cold War dirty tricks and spy techniques that have intrigued some long-time deep-state watchers. For example, here’s Mike Benz:
It’s a little wonky, but it seems the documents confirm that the CIA and related spy agencies were busy little beavers back then, creating libraries of anti-communist propaganda. Until 2020, I would have fully endorsed that, except that the deep-state’s narrative-spinning machine appears to have now been aimed back against us.
Just for flavor, here’s one wonky example of newly disclosed CIA work product:
Try imagining a conference room of CIA spooks drafting children’s cartoon books, distributed in the sixties in their millions. So … what is the CIA up to these days? Transgender comics for school kids?
An emerging consensus among the trained reviewers was that these documents appear originally redacted to protect CIA methods rather than conceal a ‘real’ assassin. But again, it’s early, and that emerging consensus could still shift.
At this point, all we know for sure is that a lot of historically interesting documents have been released, nobody has yet found a smoking redaction pen, and we haven’t seen them all yet.
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