RFK Jr. Denounces Biden Admin For Withholding JFK Assassination Records

The Biden administration announced in a memo that it would delay the release of some classified documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s (JFK) assassination due to national security on the afternoon of the Friday before what was likely one of the busiest holiday weekends in America.

Despite the understated announcement on the eve of the Fourth of July holiday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) led the outrage, openly speculating that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was responsible for his uncle’s murder and that he might now be in danger from the organization.

Kennedy, who is gaining ground on Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2024, suggested a coverup in a flurry of tweets.

“The assassination was 60 years ago. What national security secrets could possibly be at risk? What are they hiding?” he asked.

He blasted Biden for choosing the timing to cover the “bad news” he would be “maintaining secrecy indefinitely” on JFK assassination records.

President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which required the release of all government-held JFK assassination records by October 2017, was allegedly violated by the postponement, according to Kennedy.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has kept the records.The JFK assassination document release deadline has been postponed numerous times, including during the Trump Administration.

The law does, however, allow for an exception when the president certifies that a prolonged delay is “made necessary by an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or conduct of foreign relations” and the harm is “of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest.”

Biden announced a signed agreement in December that the remaining new records would be made public on June 30, the day before the Fourth of July holiday.

The White House declared on Friday that more than 99 percent of the records had been made available to the public. However, the president claimed in the memo he had Biden sign that the acting archivist at NARA had advised him to hold off on making “certain redacted information” in the documents that had been made public in December.

“Continued postponement of public disclosure of that information is necessary to protect against identifiable harms to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, and the conduct of foreign relations that are of such gravity that they outweigh the public interest in disclosure,” the memo states.

Biden also said that future release of the withheld JFK assassination records would  “occur in a manner consistent” with a policy called the Transparency Plan, which was established by the National Declassification Center (NDC).

“The Transparency Plans will ensure that the public will have access to the maximum amount of information while continuing to protect against identifiable harms to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, and the conduct of foreign relations under the standards of the Act,” wrote Biden in the memo.

Kennedy has become more outspoken about his conviction that there is evidence that his uncle JFK was murdered by the American government since announcing his candidacy for president.

He mentioned that former CIA Director Allen Dulles, who was fired by President Kennedy, was one of the members of the Warren Commission, as it was called, to review the assassination.

Dulles passed away in 1969, six years after Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, and he vehemently denied any complicity.

In honor of his brother John Foster Dulles, who served as Secretary of State under President Dwight Eisenhower, Dulles International Airport was established in Washington.

RFK Jr. thinks Dulles hid evidence of CIA involvement while serving on the Warren Commission. In a recent interview, he claimed that his own father’s “first instinct” was that a federal agency was responsible for the murder.

The CIA has long denied having any part in the death of the 35th president. A U.S. House review committee established to examine the assassination’s evidence came to the conclusion that at least two gunmen and co-conspirators were responsible for Kennedy’s death in 1979.

Former US Marine Lee Harvey Oswald was the only person to have ever been charged with Kennedy’s murder. A few days after Kennedy’s assassination, nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald, who had denied being the attacker.

Ruby was found guilty and given a prison sentence; there, while awaiting a new trial following a successful appeal of his conviction, he passed away in 1967.

Kennedy was questioned about his safety in mid-June by national conservative podcaster Joe Rogan in regards to the possibility of being singled out by the CIA.

Kennedy said yes, that “he has to be careful” and that he does “take precautions.”