The JFK Files Drop Today (Supposedly)

The Hill reports that Trump announced that the JFK files will finally be released at some point *TODAY* (March 18th, 2025).

“While we’re here, I thought it would be appropriate — we are, tomorrow, announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files. So, people have been waiting for decades for this, and I’ve instructed my people … lots of different people, [Director of National Intelligence] Tulsi Gabbard, that they must be released tomorrow,” the president told reporters while touring the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

“You got a lot of reading. I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything. I said, ‘just don’t redact, you can’t redact,’” the president said, adding it will be about 80,000 pages that he described as “interesting.”

He said he has “heard about them” when asked if he has seen what’s in the files; he added, “I’m not doing summaries, you’ll write your own summary.”

Now the big question is: What’s in the files?

There are two main schools of thought:

1. There’s a severe case of overclassification in the federal government and that most certainly applies to these files. There’s stuff that was kept secret not because of any threat to national security but because the information, if public, would be embarrassing to a handful of powerful people and/or people in the charge of powerful people.

2. All of the good stuff in the files has been destroyed. We’re never going to learn the truth, man.

I suppose that there is a third school of thought where we’re going to learn a bombshell that will change everything we thought we knew about the 1960s… but that strikes me as exceptionally unlikely.

We’re either going to learn that the federal government inappropriately classified information that was embarrassing to itself *OR* we’re going to learn that the federal government inappropriately classified information that was a nothingburger.

And with those options being the main options, why not kick the can down the road a ways? Why confirm, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the federal government inappropriately classifies things? Who wants to have *THAT* conversation with Congress?

“Is there anything else that the government has inappropriately classified?”
“I cannot think of anything, Congressman.”

But if something juicy *DOES* drop, please (I beg you!) share it in the comments.