{"id":188592,"date":"2025-02-21T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=188592"},"modified":"2025-02-21T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:08:00","slug":"rep-luna-provides-update-on-task-force-efforts-to-declassify-key-federal-documents-requests-update-from-trump-administration-on-declassification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=188592","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Luna Provides Update on Task Force Efforts to Declassify Key Federal Documents, Requests Update from Trump Administration on Declassification"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, DC…Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), the chairwoman of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, today provided an update on the panel\u2019s efforts to declassify documents of public interest and sent a letter<\/a>\u00a0to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, and White House Counsel David Warrington requesting an update on the plan to declassify documents under President Trump\u2019s executive order on \u201cDeclassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By Walt Cisco, Dallas Morning News\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In that letter,\u00a0Rep. Luna requested a briefing for the task force on February 26, 2025, regarding the declassification of records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and on March 17, 2025, regarding the declassification of records pertaining to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\u00a0 In addition to the briefings, she has requested, in writing, a hard date on when the documents President Trump ordered declassified will be made available to both the Task Force and public as well as where they are to be publicly located.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll federal agencies are cooperating with the Task Force and will provide the requested briefings in the coming weeks. As we work to understand the full scope of federal documents related to key national secrets, we are preparing for the Task Force\u2019s first hearing on March 26, which will examine the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In advance of the hearing, the Task Force will visit the assassination site in Dallas and speak with first-hand witnesses regarding President Kennedy\u2019s assassination. We remain committed to delivering the transparency that Americans demand from their government,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>said Rep. Luna.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On February 11, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Luna\u00a0sent 11 letters<\/a>\u00a0to several agencies requesting briefings by February 18 on documents in their possession pertaining to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; COVID-19 origins; unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and unidentified submerged objects (USOs); 9\/11; and the Epstein client list.<\/p>\n

The Task Force\u2019s first hearing, scheduled for March 26, will be open to the public and the media. Further details will be announced soon.<\/p>\n

On January 23, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order on \u201cDeclassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\u201d The EO requires the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, in coordination with the National Security Advisor, Michael Waltz, and White House Counsel, David Warrington, to prepare for the President within 15 days (by February 7, 2025) a plan \u201cfor the full and complete release of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.\u201d Additionally, the EO requires that within 45 days (by March 9, 2025) the same personnel prepare for the President a plan \u201cfor the full and complete release\u201d of records relating to the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington, DC…Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), the chairwoman of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, today provided an update on the panel\u2019s efforts to declassify documents of public interest and sent a letter\u00a0to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, and White House Counsel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/JFK_limousine.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188594,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188592\/revisions\/188594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}