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by tareqak 1278 days ago
> In a memo, President Biden authorized more than 70% of the roughly 16,000 remaining files on JFK's death to "now be released in full."

What about the remaining percentage? Why is that not being released?

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I wonder if it's along the lines of 30% of the pages have PII on them. something along the lines of "visited ${person} at their home located at ${address}" and they're censoring that portion?

Will be interesting to see what all's been released, but I feel like at this point he (jfk) had so many enemies (Cuba/three letter agencies/mob) that short of someone coming forward with a confession and new solid evidence we'll never know much beyond Oswald.

I do think most likely though that Oswald was just off his rocker.

I think that they will release all the files eventually while leaving out actual secrets that would harm security, and also leave out the names of the people and the groups/societies/organizations/mafia who were responsible.

In the 2017 release, some files were shown to have been rereleased with fewer redactions, while others had added redactions. This is not likely nefarious but due to either a different/newer team working on them, or a mistake, or perhaps changing to a different document system.

> 70% ... "now released in full."

Is this the new "70% of the time it works every time"? (I get that "in full" means "not redacted" but it's still a funny juxtaposition of words.)

It's usually because that information relates to other sensitive intelligence sources.
I mean that's what they _tell_ us anyway
Sure but the idea isn’t exactly preposterous.