How a former Trump aide is pressing Biden to loosen national security secrets
Jefferson Morley
September 30, 2021
Bryan Bender of POLITICO profiles Ezra Cohen, the chair of the Public Interest Declassification Board, which this week called for maximum transparency around secret JFK assassination files.
Ezra Cohen, appointed by President Trump, gets positive reviews from one Democratic congressman on the board, which advises the president on declassification issues.
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Public Interest Declassification Board Urges Transparency in Release of JFK Files
GuestContributor
September 28, 2021
The Public Interest Declassificaton Board is an office within the National Archives that was created by Congress to advise the president on secrecy and declassification issue. The PIDB is supposed to act as a counterweight to secret government agencies. It doesn’t have much real power but it does constitute a presence that other agencies have to take into account.
And its members have written a letter to President BIden about the last of the JFK assassination files.
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Top official: CIA secrecy around JFK records is ‘ridiculous’
Jefferson Morley
June 25, 2014
A top U.S. government official said Thursday that the CIA’s continuing secrecy around 1,100 documents related to the assassination of President Kennedy is “ridiculous.” …
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#HowtoSolveJFKin2014: Declassify the RFK papers now
Jefferson Morley
January 2, 2014
A faithful reader calls attention to one practical step the U.S. government can take in 2014 to contribute to public understanding of the JFK assassination story: declassify the papers of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy from 1963-64.
The blog of the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) is seeking comment on declassification priorities for the National Archives.
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