Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

During his first term, Trump was the one who stopped all the records from being released automatically. This is his MO, to claim as victory something that would have happened without him opening his mouth in the first place.


This might make sense if the MLK and RFK assassinations weren't also being disclosed, and that without any act of congress.


I don’t get the downvotes; this is factually true. We don’t know what Pompeo told Trump in 2017, when the records would automatically release the remaining 3,648 by law, yet Trump blocked. Biden released 2,672 of those. Unless he finds a secret stash, Trump can’t beat those numbers now.


He was asked about this by Joe Rogan, his response at there is some concern that some of the people involved was still alive, but now he feels that doesn’t override the need of the families and American people to know.

This post is not political whether you believe or do not believe Trump is up to you.



But we already knew everything about her?


[flagged]


Maybe its truly a nothing-burger. even if released uncensored the most salient information would be details about how the secret service deployed and what they did wrong? Personally I think that is probably the most likely thing that would be still considered classified even if the details are completely obvious.

I mean most classified information is classified because its classified. By that I mean it is classified because nobody declassified it. That gets you hilarious press conferences like that navy UFO thing in trumps last term where the spokesperson could only say "the US does not have the technology to build a flying object like this" (paraphrased from memory).

I am pretty sure an analyst looked at the footage and identified a sea-bird and the US does not have the technology to build a bird exactly. But analyst output is automatically classified so.....


> in between democrats were in power they didn't release

That's not true. Biden did release more files during his term:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/us/politics/biden-jfk-ass...


> This is his MO, to claim as victory something that would have happened without him opening his mouth in the first place

We used to call this confirmation bias....




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: