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• lettergram 4y ago
  https://www.tampabay.com/news/nation-world/2020/12/07/president-trump-pledged-to-open-classified-jfk-assassination-files-what-happened-to-that/ https://www.tampabay.com/news/nation-world/2020/12/07/presid...
  • knorker 4y ago
    That doesn't support the claim that Trump's orders were not followed. "But soon after the bombshell, Trump partially retreated" It was Trump's decision, but after being advised on it, he changed his mind. This is very much not saying that Trump's orders were not followed.
    • starkd 4y ago
      Bureaucratic inertia. It's not uncommon for orders to go partially unimplemented or even outright ignored by the people carrying it out. Many people have remarked on this. Even Jimmy Carter once remarked that one of his biggest suprises was things he gave an order for were never carried out. Bill Clinton has also remarked on the existence of a sort of "shadow government". It gives rise to conspiracy theories as explanation, but there is a strong bureaucratic intertia in the workings of goverment. It's a big problem, because it makes for a very inflexible goverment overall.
      • knorker 4y ago
        But that is not what happened here. Here Trump changed his mind, and decided to not declassify it all. I know it wasn't you who linked it, but the Tampa Bay Times explicitly contradicts what you said: “I agree with the Archivist’s recommendation that the continued withholdings are necessary to protect against identifiable harm to national security, law enforcement, or foreign affairs that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure,” the president said