WASHINGTON (via AP & WOOD TV 8) — President Donald Trump blocked the release of hundreds of records on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, bending to CIA and FBI appeals, while the National Archives came out Thursday night with a hefty cache of others.
“I have no choice,” Trump said in a memo, citing “potentially irreversible harm” to national security if he were to allow all records out now. He was placing those files under a six-month review while letting 2,800 others come out, racing a deadline to honor a law mandating their release.
Later in the evening, the Archives posted online the documents approved for release.
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