Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by tazu 639 days ago
It's promising that RFK Jr could potentially be in a future administration and push to declassify these documents[1]. It would really only take an executive order. He probably has enough of a chip on his shoulder to accomplish this.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/23/trum...

1 comments

I think parents point is you can't declassify documents that no longer exist. IIRC many of the CIA's more heinous acts only have documentation because some one misfiled them allowing them to escape intentional destruction.
Backups have a way of appearing that surprise those who try to destroy evidence.