Hey, look at this shiny thing!
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Oooo! I love shiny things! Let me just look away from this nascent coup for a sec so I can see the shiny thing!
Finally, all the people involved, who are all dead now, will be brought to justice!
The assassination files getting released is a total win. Hopefully they are unredacted and we can better understand what happened. There are too many questions that are left unanswered with MLK and JFK.
Keep in mind all the horrible things you will be missing this administration do, while everyone is excitedly talking about whatever gets released.... There's a reason they 'found' these things in the first place, and why they said they will release whatever they found. Gotta keep everyone distracted.
I assumed they "found" them as a veiled threat. Like, "you really want to send doge here?"
You really should mentally prepare yourself for a deluxe nothingburger with cheese.
There's a very, very good chance that the years of classification are entirely related to intelligence collection methods, specifically humint, that are basic techniques that remain in place today. And which will seem like nothing because so much had been leaked or dramatized, that these are not real secrets anymore for the average person who has seen a movie like the Bourne Identity.
I'll bet you $5 that the nothingness of the final release will only fuel conspiracy theories that everything released was BS, simply because people have spent decades getting spun up and can't imagine mundane explanations being all they get from it all.
Most likely it will just create more conspiracy theories as nutters go anomaly hunting and drawing crazy conclusions.
There is nothing at this point that will assuag "informed" perception. It will only shed light on how much the sheriff's office and the FBI were involved.
When was the tree cut down and who did that?
MLK was a problem for the government, so were JFK's intent. Knowing how far the establishment was going to go to maintain their narrative matters.
Full and redacted records would do a lot for government trust.
JFK didn’t kill himself