Did President Trump And The Central Intelligence Agency Strike A Deal On The John F. Kennedy Records? By Jacob G. Hornberger
(2018-05-02 at 18:18:23 )

Did President Trump and the Central Intelligence Agency Strike a Deal on the John F. Kennedy Records? by Jacob G. Hornberger

Did President Trump grant the Central Intelligence Agency an additional three and a half years of secrecy on its President John F. Kennedy assassination-related records because he truly believed that "National Security" was at stake?

Or did President Trump grant the Central Intelligence Agencys request for continued secrecy as part of a negotiated bargain that Trump reached with the Central Intelligence Agency?

Consider the following tweets that Trump sent out the week before October 26, 2017, when the 25-year deadline set by the John F. Kennedy Records Act was set to expire:

-October 21: "Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified John F. Kennedy FILES to be opened."

-October 25: "The long anticipated release of the President John F. Kennedy Files will take place tomorrow.

So interesting!!

Notice something important here: President Trump makes no mention of any request by the Central Intelligence Agency for continued secrecy. How likely is it that the Central Intelligence Agency had not made such a request prior to that week? Not likely at all.

It is inconceivable that the Central Intelligence Agency would wait until October 26, rush into President Trumps office and declare, "Mr. President, we totally forgot about the deadline set 25 years ago and we need an additional time to review the records." (As an interesting aside, notice that neither Trump, the Central Intelligence Agency, nor the National Archives has disclosed to the public any written request by the Central Intelligence Agency or any other federal agency for continued secrecy of the President John F. Kennedy assassination-related records.)

There is another possible explanation for what was going on during the week of October 26. As I pointed out my October 27, 2017, article "The JFK Cover-Up Continues," the possibility exists that President Trump was negotiating with the Central Intelligence Agency and taking the matter to the brink with his two tweets - that is, that Trump knew that continued secrecy was critically important to the Central Intelligence Agency but that he wanted something in return. You know, ."The Art of the Deal"

If that is what was happening, then Preident Trump was likely communicating to the Central Intelligence Agency with his tweets, "Give me what I want or I release the records." That would mean that at the last minute the Central Intelligence Agency caved and gave President Trump what he wanted, which would explain why Trump suddenly changed his mind on October 26 and granted another six months of secrecy, contrary to what his two tweets indicated he would do immediately prior to that October 26 deadline.

What was something that would have been important to President Trump that the Central Intelligence Agency could have given him?

As I indicated in my October 27 article, what would have been important to President Trump would have been an exoneration in the Russia investigation, at the very least with respect to Congress and maybe, hopefully, even with respect to the investigation being conducted by the special counsel and former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller.

As part of the deal, President Trump would have demanded that the Central Intelligence Agency exercise its considerable power and influence to bring one and hopefully both investigations to a satisfactory conclusion.

Why only six months of secrecy back in October? Because as I indicated in my October 27 article, Trump would have wanted a guarantee that the Central Intelligence Agency would live up to its end of the bargain. If the Central Intelligence Agency did not deliver at its end, President Trump could still order a release of the records in April. If the Central Intelligence Agency delivered, Trump could grant its request for additional secrecy when the April deadline came.

On April 26, the day that the six-month extension expired, Trump granted the Central Intelligence Agency another two and one half years of secrecy.

Maybe it is just a coincidence but one day later, April 27, the House Intelligence Committee released its final report exonerating President Trump in its investigation into the Russia brouhaha.

Printed here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!