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The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the lawyer general are expected to merchandise their projected program for the declassification of the JFK files connected Friday.
Both offices, successful coordination with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and the Counsel to the President, person until the extremity of the time Friday to merchandise their projected plan.
Last month, President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid to declassify files connected the assassinations of erstwhile President John F. Kennedy, his member Robert F. Kennedy and civilian rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Everything volition beryllium revealed," Trump told reporters arsenic helium signed the bid successful the Oval Office.
The enforcement bid came aft Trump had antecedently promised connected the run way to declassify the documents upon entering his 2nd term, saying astatine the time, "When I instrumentality to the White House, I volition declassify and unseal each JFK assassination-related documents. It’s been 60 years, clip for the American radical to cognize the truth."
Trump had initially promised to merchandise the past batch of documents during his archetypal term, but specified efforts yet dissipated. Trump past blocked the merchandise of hundreds of records connected the assassination pursuing respective CIA and FBI appeals.
"I person nary choice," Trump said successful a memo, wherever helium cited "potentially irreversible harm" to nationalist information if helium allowed the records to beryllium released. Trump said astatine the clip the imaginable harm to U.S. nationalist security, instrumentality enforcement oregon overseas affairs is "of specified gravity that it outweighs the nationalist involvement successful contiguous disclosure."
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Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was sworn successful connected Wednesday, is successful New Orleans, Louisiana, for the time to survey Super Bowl LIX security. Bondi's archetypal afloat time connected the occupation is portion of an effort to item the administration’s broader committedness to ace down connected convulsive transgression and acts of terrorism.
Bondi has yet to formally code Trump's bid to declassify the JFK assassination files and her attack to the task.
Fox News Digital learned soon aft she was sworn successful that the caller AG would beryllium issuing respective large directives connected her archetypal day, including orders to combat the weaponization of the ineligible strategy and making prosecutors question the decease punishment erstwhile appropriate.
Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's prime for DNI, successfully advanced retired of the Intel Committee this week, with each Republican members voting successful her favor.
Gabbard has faced questions during her confirmation process regarding her past gathering with erstwhile Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, her erstwhile FISA Section 702 stance and her past enactment for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Fox News' David Spunt, Breanne Deppisch, Julia Johnson and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
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