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Recently, The STATE DEPARTMENT issued this statement On October 12,
2017, the Department of State notified Communist UNESCO Director-General Irina
Bokova of the U.S. decision to withdraw from the organization and to
seek to establish a permanent observer mission to UNESCO.
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Update: Following Friday’s disappointing
release of some, but not all, remaining files related to the death of
President John F. Kennedy, President Trump just confirmed, via tweet,
that the rest of the files are released, well ahead of schedule…
Of course, given that this is the government – and the government does not work weekends – the files are unlikely to be released on to the official National Archives site until Monday.
This appears to be a victory for Trump in his never-ending battle with the intelligence agencies.
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As we detailed earlier, The Deep States’ ‘war’ with President Trump
may sink from the headlines every so often, but there is little doubt
that it continues to bubble away, battle after battle. This week’s
delayed, reduced… and now soon-to-be-complete release of the rest of the
previously classified JKF files is yet another clash with the spy
agencies… and this time President Trump may have won…
As AP’s Zeke Miller writes,it was a showdown 25 years in the making:
With the world itching to finally get a look at classified Kennedy
assassination files, and the deadline for their release just hours away,
intelligence officials were still angling for a way to keep their
secrets. President Donald Trump, the one man able to block the release,
did not appreciate their persistence. He did not intend to make this easy.
Like much else surrounding investigations of the 1963 killing of President John F. Kennedy, this week’s release of 2,800 records from the JFK files was anything but smooth.
It came together only at the last minute, with White House lawyers
still fielding late-arriving requests for additional redactions in the
morning and an irritated Trump continuing to resist signing off on the
request, according to an account by two White House officials. They
spoke only on condition of anonymity to discuss internal discussions.
The tale of the final hours before the congressionally mandated 25-year release deadline on Thursday adds a new chapter to the story of Trump’s troubled relationship with his spy agencies.
He again flashed his skepticism and unpredictability in dealing with
agencies long accustomed to a level of deference. Intelligence
officials, meanwhile, were again left scratching their heads about a
president whose impulses they cannot predict.
And those officials had their own story tell, some rejecting the
notion they were slow to act on Trump’s expectations for the documents.
The CIA began work months ago to get its remaining assassination-related
documents ready for release on Thursday, according to a person familiar
with the process. The person, who was not authorized to publicly to
discuss the process and spoke only on condition of anonymity, said the
goal was to have all the agency’s documents ready to be released in full
or with national security redactions before the deadline.
Since taking office, Trump has challenged the integrity of
intelligence leaders, moved to exert more control over U.S. spying
agencies and accused his predecessor of using government spycraft to
monitor his campaign. In the JFK files matter, one White House official said, Trump wanted to make clear he wouldn’t be bullied by the agencies. Whatever occurred in the lead-up to deadline day, Trump
was irritated Thursday that agencies still were arguing for more
redactions. The president earlier in the week had tweeted to
tease the release of the documents, heightening the sense of drama on a
subject that has sparked the imaginations of conspiracy theorists for
decades. Under a 1992 law, all of the records related to the
assassination were to be made public unless explicitly withheld by the
president.
Just before the release Thursday, Trump wrote in a
memorandum that he had “no choice” but to agree to requests from the CIA
and FBI to keep thousands of documents secret because of the
possibility that releasing the information could still harm national
security. Two aides said Trump was upset by what he perceived
to be overly broad secrecy requests, adding that the agencies had been
explicitly warned about his expectation that redactions be kept to a
minimum.
“The president and White House have been very clear with all
agencies for weeks: They must be transparent and disclose all
information possible,” White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah said Friday.
Late last week, Trump received his first official briefing on the
release in an Oval Office meeting that included Chief of Staff John
Kelly, White House Counsel Don McGahn and National Security Council
legal adviser John Eisenberg. Trump made it clear he was unsatisfied with the pace of declassification. Trump’s tweets, an official said, were meant as a signal
to the intelligence community to take seriously his threats to release
the documents in their entirety.
According to White House officials, Trump accepted that some of
the records contained references to sensitive sources and methods used
by the intelligence community and law enforcement and that
declassification could harm American foreign policy interests. But after
having the scope of the redactions presented to him, Trump told aides
he did not believe them to be in the spirit of the law.
On Thursday, Trump’s top aides presented him with an alternative to simply acquiescing to the agency requests:
He could temporarily allow the redactions while ordering the agencies
to launch a new comprehensive examination of the records still withheld
or redacted in part.
Trump accepted the suggestion, ordering that agencies be
“extremely circumspect” about keeping the remaining documents secret at
the end of the 180-day assessment.
“After strict consultation with General Kelly, the CIA and other
agencies, I will be releasing ALL JFK files other than the names and
addresses of any mentioned person who is still living,” Trump wrote in a
Friday tweet.
“I am doing this for reasons of full disclosure, transparency and in order to put any and all conspiracy theories to rest.”
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On Monday the Justice Department unsealed its indictment of
former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, citing business dealings with
the Ukraine government between 2006 through 2015.
Former Trump campaign official Rick Gates was also named in the indictment by a federal grand jury. “The indictment against Manafort and Gates contains 12 counts:
conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money,
unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading US
Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) statements, false statements, and
seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial
accounts,” reports CNN.
As pointed out by President Trump on Twitter Monday, the indictment
has nothing to do with alleged collusion between his 2016 presidential
campaign and Russia.
Sorry, but this is years ago, before Paul
Manafort was part of the Trump campaign. But why aren't Crooked Hillary
& the Dems the focus?????
